The True Believers*
A few years ago, I
called Nellie Bowles a “national treasure” on Twitter. With her new book she
has certainly lived up to that appellation. Bowles a former New York Times
reporter and now a reporter/editor with her wife Bari Weiss at the very lively
Free Press. If you haven’t already subscribed, I urge you to check it out.
Bowles is today a
refugee from the woke culture which she thoroughly subscribed to in the second
decade of our century. Her book is a series of essays on such topics as the
cancel culture, the failure of San Francisco, the struggle sessions involved in
the woke culture, the trans culture, policing and the hustlers in the
anti-racism world, among others.
It seems that
whatever the cause, be it anti-racism, anti-police, support for trans
individuals, and today anti-Israel protestors there seems to be need on the far
left to believe in something. So, if the protests around Black Lives Matter
fizzled out there are new causes to believe in. These folks find their identity
in believing in something. They are true believers in the sense Eric Hoffer
wrote about them over seventy years ago.
As a result, there is
no arguing with them because the cause they currently believe in takes on a
religious intensity. To me, in many respects, their causes are a substitute for
religion. Nellie Bowles has written an important book for our time because it
gives insight into the extremes we are now witnessing.
· * Apologies to Eric
Hoffer
For the full Amazon
URL see: The
True Believers* (amazon.com)
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