Our entire identity, is based, in part, on the way that we formed, even the issue of mass denialism.
I can't deal with the world that I'm finding myself in without acknowledging that a lot of our existing prejudices. the real criticism that you hear behind these very petty disagreements about historical events is that we can't accept this reality as being the source of our nation, that we can't have an America that's not based on our ideals, but based on how we formed it in the first place. It's been wild watching people react to the 1619 Project because. We don't have a choice but to acknowledge that. We have a nation that was formed in part on a genocide, a land grab and forced generational slavery. "It was very hard to twist things further along, to come up with something that gives you enough distance to say, 'Hey, this is crazy.' " "We're basically living in a satire," he says.
But, he adds, the political rollercoaster of the past few years - and the normalization of extreme positions - complicated his vision of a dystopian future. Johnson says the book's satire was inspired, in part, by the intense emotions he experienced throughout the Trump presidency.
Partisanship reigns, and the privileged - namely, those who arrived in the domed colony first - are favored. But they've also copied some of the worst aspects of America's class system and politics. Set in the future, the novel takes place on one of Jupiter's many moons, where humans have created an artificial ecosystem designed to replicate life on Earth. Johnson's new satirical novel, Invisible Things, serves up one of those apocalyptic flavors. "It's hard not seeing the possible end of things in a variety of different ways," he says. Novelist Mat Johnson believes that America has its own unique "flavor" of apocalypse. His previous books include Pym and Loving Day. Knight Chair of Humanities at the University of Oregon.
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