There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.
I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens.
What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.
That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.
When I yell at my TV, it's usually watching... usually it happens during the election. There's when I'm watching CNN and MSNBC.