Now I Can See the Moon by Alice Tallmadge

Author:Alice Tallmadge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2018-05-25T04:00:00+00:00

It never occurred to me—couldn’t have occurred to me, then—that Mary and Michelle were caught up in a tide of hysteria that was far more real and powerful than the physical entity they were imagining. Their true tormentor, it turned out, wasn’t a supposed massive “cult,” but people’s unquestioning belief in its existence, despite the absence of any demonstrable proof. When I finally learned about the panic that ate away at the underbelly of critical thinking and common sense during that decade, I better understood Michelle’s fears and Mary’s willingness to believe her memories were true. But I would also have to look at how the panic had affected me. Time after time in my conversations with Mary, I had chosen silence over confrontation. Had the panic leached away my ability to challenge beliefs and certainties that had no rational basis? Had the panic—not Mary, not my fear of losing contact with Michelle—somehow quelled my willingness to speak out?

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