It’s about the shattering of all that had seemed solid, the scattering of people who had been a community. But Babel is not a story about tribalism it’s a story about the fragmentation of everything. It’s been clear for quite a while now that red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries claiming the same territory, with two different versions of the Constitution, economics, and American history. We are cut off from one another and from the past. We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. Something went terribly wrong, very suddenly. The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we now inhabit. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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