[FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st century

[Marcus Daniels]

HBO new take on The Watchmen seems like a pretty good take (extrapolation) on conflict in the United States today.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net>
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Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 2:39 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st century

I recently stumbled upon John Steinbeck's classic novel "The Grapes of Wrath" and wonder if it is similar to the situation today. You will all know it since it is often read in High Schools, right? (I had to read Goethe in School. And "Animal Farm" plus "To kill a Mocking Bird" in the English class).

As you know Steinbeck describes how migrants from Oklahoma called Okies look for a better life in California. They travel along the Route 66, which Steinbeck helped to make popular, passed Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and drove to the West until they arrived in California where the locals disliked and rejected them.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/news/grapes-wrath

Today we have migrants from Cuba and Mexico looking for a better life in the US and refugees from Syria and Afghanistan who cause a lot of trouble in the EU. Many of these refugees and migrants live in camps, just like the ones Steinbeck visited.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/feb/02/johnsteinbeck.socialsciences

Steinbeck's novel takes place during the "Dust Bowl". Today the dry regions in the South suffer from droughts and wild fires caused by Climate Change worldwide. Everything sounds similar, as if history is repeating itself.
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl

-J.






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