A production of Bertolt Brecht's Fear and Misery of the Third Reich. 'In the face of an avalanche of lies, how should the artist respond?' USC professor Oliver Mayer asks, looking to German playwright Bertolt Brecht to understand how difficult it is to write hard truths, and how the stage may offer a way forward. Courtesy of Lake Crimson/Flickr. What can we do? As we stare at a broken world, malignant and sense-deadening, what response—as thinking, feeling people—are we left to have? What action can we take? No matter who we are, it seems that we are stuck, our ability to make positive change stalemated, our governing system overheated thanks to the mounds of sand thrown into its gears over decades by prevaricators and other malefactors.

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