The Madman and the Moral Arc of the Universe: An Epistle
I just finished this email to some friends and family members. I wasn’t planning on using it for this purpose, but maybe, in this hour before we find out where we stand in relation to threats of rendering us parties - unwilling, to be sure - to genocide or not, this may prove helpful for some. ####### I know some of you are concerned, perhaps even worried, about the pronouncement of the Occupier in the White House’s words threatening to wipe out an entire country. I know some of you have children and grandchildren, and you’re no doubt wondering what kind of country, what kind of world they’re coming into. I’m not going to say everything’s going to be fine. I’m not about to assume that nothing’s going to happen. Even if the madman pulls back from the abyss, the heart of what this country was has been forever blackened. Idiots will complain that Trump’s erratic and errant words and behaviors will harm the markets, but they overlook what those words and actions actually do. We have n...