We Have Descended into Utter Madness [View all]

We have descended into utter madness.

We knew we were at risk of it. We struggled against it as it was happening. We called out the warning signs and its first manifestations. And yet, somehow, its onset has accelerated and deepened and we are suddenly in a place of lunacy more acute than this country has ever experienced

What is more, for all of our awareness and resistance, it is clear right now that our response is too subdued, too complacent, too accepting of the inarguably unacceptable.

At least, as it turns out, frogs do have the common sense to jump out of a pot of water as its temperature grows unacceptably high. We don’t. The water is boiling all around us.

Take the news of just the past few days as sketched out in headlines and shards of social media.

We are about to go to war against another country for no reason. Our president is delusionally barking out orders to the planet, seemingly convinced he rules the entire globe.


https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-descended-into-utter-madness