Even as a young lad, I was drawn to dark movies. My friends would puzzle over this, wondering why I didn’t want to see the latest blockbuster. “Don’t you want to be entertained?”
Actually, no. I want to be changed. I want to leave the theatre feeling different about myself or about the world in some way which persists. I’m not there to be distracted.
I was reminded of this as I was reading the Elon book, about which I wrote an extensive review yesterday. The book changed me. Yes, I learned a lot about the man’s life and times, but more important to me personally, I finished the book a different person than the person who started reading it a week earlier. Above all, I felt bolder. If you could use some of that, maybe you could give the book a read as well.
