"Is
it too late to save the world? Jonathan Franzen [Wikipedia
link] on one year of Trump's America: ‘As the ice shelves
crumble and the Twitter president threatens to pull out of the Paris
accord’, Franzen reflects on the role of the writer in times of
crisis," The Guardian, November 4, 2017
"......Every one of us is now in the position of the indigenous Americans when the Europeans arrived with guns and smallpox: our world is poised to change vastly, unpredictably, and mostly for the worse. I don’t have any hope that we can stop the change from coming. My only hope is that we can accept the reality in time to prepare for it humanely, and my only faith is that facing it honestly, however painful this may be, is better than denying it....."
I suggest reading the whole thing and thinking hard.
love to you and your family,
Larry
"......Every one of us is now in the position of the indigenous Americans when the Europeans arrived with guns and smallpox: our world is poised to change vastly, unpredictably, and mostly for the worse. I don’t have any hope that we can stop the change from coming. My only hope is that we can accept the reality in time to prepare for it humanely, and my only faith is that facing it honestly, however painful this may be, is better than denying it....."
I suggest reading the whole thing and thinking hard.
love to you and your family,
Larry
