Instant Revisionism

Instant Revisionism:
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"It turns out that Smith did more than read to Nichols from 'The Purpose-Driven Life' about God's master plan. She also gave him some of her stash of the illegal drug methamphetamine, or 'ice' as she has called it in the publicity campaign for her new book.

Now, on one level, all you can say is good for her. Smith's imperative was to survive, and if what that took was giving Nichols drugs, then that's what she had to do. In those circumstances, I would have offered him the whole medicine cabinet. Everyone would have done the same thing.

But not everyone would have had some crystal meth lying around. The fact that Smith wasn't a fairy princess but a struggling woman who'd lived a hard-knocks life, including a history of drug abuse, doesn't diminish her bravery. But it does change the narrative from Beauty and the Beast to something more like Two Lost Souls.

The whole episode struck me as a good illustration of the dizzying speed with which the story of our times gets written and rewritten in the digital age. It's no wonder that public opinion is so jittery over just about everything, no mystery that Time and Newsweek tell us every few weeks how desperate we are for spiritual connection and some kind of eternal truth. The worldly truth we know keeps changing on us."