On June 25, I posted my introduction to an article by Ron Unz, https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-jfk-lbj-and-our-great-national-shame/:
There are three topics in the U.S.’s past that are radioactive to this day: the atomic bomb, the Kennedy assassination, and the Vietnam War. They are radioactive because they say things about the U.S. and its government that few Americans want to confront. For the last several years, the alternative media and even the mainstream media have carried stories about the maladies afflicting the American soul. On a wider scale, millions of Americans have a simple gut feeling that something is very wrong. They are very right, but recovery won’t happen until Americans start telling themselves the truth about this history and conduct the searing moral examination that that truth requires. I suspect this article won’t get a lot of hits, but it’s an important article.
I was correct about the number of hits. They weren’t absolutely abysmal, but they were weak.
I realized as I was writing that introduction that it would be a launchpad to a much wider article. The mental gears started turning immediately. Not just because I was on to the right diagnosis of the “maladies afflicting the American soul,” but on a more personal level, because I was on to the right diagnosis concerning the sales of my most recent novel, The Gray Radiance. They aren’t absolutely abysmal, but they have been weak. The analysis behind these twin diagnoses says something very important: we have no future until we confront this past.
I was foolhardy enough to write a novel that features not one, not two, but all three of these radioactive topics. (There is one other such topic—9/11—that I don’t deal with in the novel or this article.) I never told myself that, in so doing, I might be dooming the novel to poor sales, but I did realize that it was going to be a tough sell. So, why write the book? Because important books address difficult topics, and they hold the same challenge for the writer that Everest holds for the mountain climber. What’s the point of writing unimportant books?
Read the rest:
https://straightlinelogic.com/2024/09/16/the-attic-by-robert-gore/
https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Radiance-Robert-Gore/dp/B0CPJQC3MP