We don’t think enough about what lies beneath the veneer of the places where we grew up, as if childhood innocence lingers inside us, filtering out anything too complicated or too dark to consider. We step over complex systems every day, walking through history and pretending the darkness isn’t there. But the older I get, the more I want to really understand the world I’m in and how it came to be. I learned that from my parents—to dig deeper and not be afraid of what I might find.
