Orgies of Feeling

In Elizabeth Anker's text, Orgies of Feeling, melodrama animates the description of politics in her eyes and also “melodrama directly competes with Jeremiad, a perennially popular genre in American culture patterned on biblical lamentations of the prophets, which offers strident moral critique degraded society, and prophecies’ that society will collapse if it continues down its wayward path.”  9/11 is a topic of interest throughout her text and different points of view are explained. Anker considers both sides of the political spectrum. One opinionated view described is imperialism, and putting blame on America itself for the terrors of 9/11 and how if we weren’t involved with foreign affairs and terrorism then it wouldn’t have been our liability. Another view is that the freedom we have in this county influenced terror attacks due to the way some of the freedoms go against certain religious ways, for example, sexuality.  Jerry Falwell says “you helped this happen” to all of the gays, abortionists and feminists and that they helped this happen in their ways of trying to secularize America. I do not agree with either side of the political spectrum exemplified in Orgies of Feeling, but I can understand how someone from an outside point of view may try to justify those reasons, however, I still do not feel that America is to blame for these attacks nor were they “asking for it”.