GR evoking the Vietnam War? (official narrative)

[Terrance]

Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on
Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the
pursuit
of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the United States—and
even more so after the Reagan era. But has this presence been for the
good of all? In Negative Liberties Cyrus R. K. Patell revises important
ideas in the debate about individualism and the political theory of
liberalism. He does so by adding two new voices to the current
discussion—Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon—to examine the
different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the
official narrative generated by U.S. liberal ideology. Pynchon and
Morrison reveal the official narrative of individualism as encompassing
a
complex structure of contradiction held in abeyance. This narrative
imagines that the goals of the individual are not at odds with the goals
of
the family or society and in fact obscures the existence of an unholy
truce
between individual liberty and forms of oppression. By bringing these
two fiction writers into a discourse dominated by Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, George Kateb, Robert Bellah, and
Michael Sandel, Patell unmasks the ways in which contemporary U.S.
culture has not fully shed the oppressive patterns of reasoning handed
down by the slaveholding culture from which American individualism
emerged. With its interdisciplinary approach, Negative Liberties will
appeal to students and scholars of American literature, culture,
sociology, and politics

May the force be with you. 

	Luke 25:1-8