A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Saturday, December 10, 2016

STEP OUT OF YOUR 'BANGED-IN' CULTURE

Philip Glass, Words Without Music: A Memoir (New York & London: Liveright, 2015) ("In a clear way, we are bound to our culture. We understand the world because of the way we were taught to see. That's why we become Americans, we become Indians, we become Eskimos. We see that world because that's what was installed, almost banged, into our heads when we were very, very young. But it's also possible to step our of that world." Id. at 196.).