The historical fiction novel centers on a real-life Victorian Era trial. Smith says she doesn't look back on the past with a sense of superiority: In her view, human life is 'a continued struggle.'
There's something about that argument which is very flattering to us, right? It always assumes that there is an era that arcs towards progress, and we are the final and most perfected result of that system. And I don't feel that. ... Freedom works both ways, you know what I mean? You gain freedoms, but you also lose things that might also have been of value. ...
I'm just not convinced that all liberating arcs create existential personal happiness the way we might hope them to. ... New problems arise. So that, again, makes you question this, to me, kind of neoliberal idea of continual progress. I don't see human life like that. I think it's a continued struggle. And every generation throws up new repressions, new forces of oppression, new things that are hard for women. ...
What we're here to do is to interrogate history together. That is not a complicated idea, in my mind. What's going on in America is a long-term consequence of a kind of binary argument that happens online, and that is the opposite of thought, in my view. The opposite of history, the opposite of understanding. It's like a childish football game. You win, I lose. You did this, you did that.What we're here to do is to interrogate history together.
So it's ridiculous to claim that you can stay in the same mental space. I can't. But it is always on my mind. ...On how she feels in between writing projects
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