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Michael L. Barrett
http://www.michaellancebarrett.com
“Anti-Americanism is not some bitter mental disorder inflamed by conspiracy theories and misplaced furies and envy. It is a broken heart, a defensive crouch, a hundred-year-old relationship, bewilderment that an enormous force controls your life but does not know or love you.”
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
“This, I found, was what happened so often to me in Turkey: You’re learning about a country, you have read books, and so you know what bad things have happened, and where, and then you go to those places, and you can’t help but feel haunted by your knowledge of the invisible past.”
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
“But it is very, very rare that young white Americans come across someone who tells them in harsh, unforgiving terms that they might be merely the easy winners of an ugly game, and indeed because of their ignorance and misused power, they might actually be the losers within a greater moral universe.”
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
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