Vertigo is (1) dizziness characterized by spinning sensations and (2) the title of a 1958 film by Alfred Hitchcock. But, is it also a fair way to describe (3) the 2025 cultural zeitgeist?
Tag: courage
On The Will To Change by Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks’ book “The Will to Change” (2005) highlights cultural sickness and the need for empathy, responsibility, and a will to change to address it. She contrasts domination with partnership, shame with self-esteem, fear with courage, and rage with nonviolence in the context of a patriarchal society. Hooks calls for a shift towards empathy, responsibility, and change.
It’s not personal
But you haunt my dreams Sushi Indigestion Two in the morning And I’m awake again Thinking of you In the … More
On The Fire Next Time: James Baldwin’s Warning to America
In the 1962 book “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin, addresses the divide between people in the 1960s United States and beyond. Baldwin’s writing reflects on the traumas, fears, hypocrisies, and hopes of both majority and minority populations while warning against hate, violence, and oppression.
Deliberating Truth 