The Moral Injuries of Smedley

Cats in some very important ways identifies with Smedley and with this concept of the moral injury. The reason why I sort of intuit at a certain level the way that these things are connected is because I've experienced it to a certain extent in my own life. In Butler works through these difficult questions on a nightly basis on stage as he's talking to packed VFW halls. He's transformed from being a man who went dutifully along to a voice of opposition Who starts asking hard questions about imperialism, war, and gangsterism.