Requiem
For two months, I’ve refrained from writing. I’ve been mostly silent on social media. Part of this was necessity, part of it was simply desire to stop. I needed to stop reading compulsively and I wanted to stop writing. I wanted to stop writing and I needed to stop reading compulsively so that I could take time to look and listen at the world without noise. It isn’t what I’ve seen or not seen that leads me to write this. It’s what I’ve felt, what I’ve been feeling. When the regime came to power in November 2024, I knew then that the nation had crossed the rubicon into authoritarianism. Setting aside a worthwhile argument that the election’s balanced was tipped by a person or persons with vested interests in returning a would-be king to power and seeing to it that Project 2025 was followed closely, the fact remains that there is a substantial minority of voters, of citizens in this country who very much would welcome the end of democracy and who support minority rule. Partici...
