Love the column- only I don't think it's about American faith at all. Our Town is about deep human truths that know no borders. Anyone can recognize what's important about being human from Our town- whether they live in Grover's Corners, or Wuppertal,
When things are burned away in calamity- major or minor- what's left if what's you've done with your life, how you intend to live it in the future, the relationships you have with the people you love. Those things haven't changed since we were cavemen and cavewomen. Those are the things (I think) that people sometimes forget on the race to more money, or more vacations, or more houses, or more...whatever.
And the dead are never from one country- not the war dead bent on preserving their country, or any other kind of dead, just as the living, and their problems, are equally global
"The true American faith endures in “Our Town.”
But aside from that, I liked the column.
Our town, imo, is the faith of humanity distilled through an American apparatus, but stil, essentially a global truth. I hate to see it limited as just "American faith". |
