Slouching Towards Bethlehem — What Happens When the Social Web Breaks?
What happens when inherited rules lose their authority before new forms of belonging are ready to replace them?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion as our lens, this episode investigates the social fragmentation running beneath her portraits of 1960s California.
Didion moves through Haight-Ashbury, suburban Southern California, celebrity culture, morality, family, migration, and reinvention. Beneath these different settings is a recurring structural question: how do people construct identity…
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