Saturday, February 22, 2025

DEFEAT FASCISM: READ REBUKE RESIST

 Maybe the question isn’t why 77,302.580 Americans came to believe that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are exemplary beings who should rule the country. Perhaps a more suitable question is: how?

I’m certainly not smart enough to figure it out. There were signs, though. Had I been attentive, I might have noticed. For example:

Knowledge had outrun our ability to reason. We treasure, almost above anything, our cell phones. They developed from science and stole our minds and hearts. They didn’t help most, though, better understand how we evolved from blue algae to minds that created nuclear bombs and the Jupiter Symphony in a brief galactic period of less than five billion years.

It’s as if our minds are like buildings that soar hundreds of stories into the sky but rest on no foundation of bedrock.

Today's challenge: Read



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