This is the first time I have ever blogged in real time but this is just too important. I grew up in the time when America fell from a state of grace to being the problem child of the Free World. That whole idea of the Free World has fallen into a measure of disrepute as well and I cannot claim to mourn its passing.
It was an idea born of a time that managed to compress complexity into a rigid model of good/evil. It left little space of questions that even hinted at the possibility of a nuanced understanding of how good people can make bad choices or any accounting for the price to be paid for decisions based on greed and narrow nationalism.
Perhaps now we can emerge from this terrible time. Maybe we could even start a whole new conversation, one that opens a space for all of the possibilities of human excellence.
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