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“It’s impossible to do [serious journalism] and not be forced to make some kind of peace with the reality that you will be…a tourist in someone else’s misery. You will drop into the lives of people suffering the worst things human beings can do to one another. And no matter how empathetic or sincere or even apologetic for your privilege you may be, when you are done you will exercise the privilege of leaving.

Lines from chapter 1 I can’t stop thinking about.

“It is the hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.”

“…the way I think about every country, every community: Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?”