Status Updates From Slouching Towards Bethlehem...

The treatment of any indigenous culture in this book is pretty rough to begin with and after the essay on Hawai’i I need to step away for a bit because it’s pissed me off so much.

Ebook - Libby

"At some point between 1945 and 1967 we had somehow neglected to tell these children the rules of the game we happened to be playing. Maybe we had stopped believing in the rules ourselves." (123)

"It might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not…All that seemed clear was that at some point, we had aborted ourselves and butchered the job, and because nothing else seemed so relevant I decided to go to San Francisco." (85)

i can’t think of another time a book immediately captured my interest like this right after i finished one immediately before. i love when i don’t have school and i can read over the summer WOW! also, this book starts by talking abt how californians forget the past and only see the future and jakarta method ends on the same note #godyoulovemakingmefindmeaningineverything