Living "today" -- in the time of Trump and disinformation, and "alternate facts," and outright lies, and unending conflicts of interest, and consumerist/capitalist "democracy," and narcissism, and autocracy,
and the 'alt-right,' and the "populist movement," and millennial diffidence towards tradition, and lack of respect for anyone and anything, and hatred (homophobia, racism, white 'privilege,' chauvinism, anti-feminism, white supremacy, etc.): is not very calming for any normal human being.
And yet, we are now at the "kernel of history": where the popcorn pops, where the problems are seen and dealt with (or not), where things "come to a head" (whatever that may mean). As TS Eliot might say: "this is the way the world ends, not with a bang -- but a whimper!"
Resist, resist, resist!!!
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