Writing Should be about Understanding and Healing

Otherwise, it can become counterproductive in people's lives.

If I look back to ages 6 to 8 years old when I began to write more and more, I wrote to understand, to make more sense of my life because I was intelligent and often life was confusing.

Looking back from 2019 I understand this better now. Then in 1954 when I was beginning to learn to write the world (here in the U.S.) was a very strange place, in it's own way even stranger than it is now (just in a completely different way).

If you have been born since around 1980 or 1990 it is going to be pretty hard to understand the dynamics of growing up in the 1950s and 1960s for example. People were much less educated generally speaking and much more openly racist (All Races towards each other and against each other) mostly because of ignorance and a lack of a formal education. So, most racism comes from the strangeness of other cultures and how people look different than yourself more than anything else.

However, strangely enough physically fighting with each other over time made us closer to each other. Now, racism is much more subtle and harder to track down.

Now, most racism is a form of nepotism more than anything else which just basically means "People take care of their own families, their own ethnic people, more than they do other ethnic peoples worldwide.

So, at least in the U.S. everyone from this point of view is a racist. Starting here I think is useful for everyone to begin a meaningful dialog.

Carnival Row is a study in racism in a fantasy format which can help people more get at the subtle and not so subtle aspects of racism also in the real world beyond a fantasy.

"Carnival Row" is on Amazon prime series with one season so far by the way, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delavingne