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If you have spent the last few years catching up those of us who have been warning about the horrors of the present moment in history, today included, I ask you to not be smugly self-satisfied and offer any "I told you sos" to anyone shocked by today.
That isn't what we need.
That isn't what we need.
Our society has taken another step closer to the precipice of a catastrophe from which it cannot return. Perhaps it has already made a final crossing over the Rubicon, perhaps not. We cannot know.
But whether or not we can find better days will be determined by what comes next.
But whether or not we can find better days will be determined by what comes next.
This terrible shock may offer others a chance to realize the warnings so desperately offered by many of us weren't fear-mongering or conspiracy theories, but serious, often well-researched fears, grounded in both the present and a long history.
Those people, some of whom are in power, will not be swayed to wise action over kneejerk and irresponsible instinct if they are met not with understanding and good faith but opprobrium.
So, please, remember not just their humanity, but your own.
So, please, remember not just their humanity, but your own.
Those of us forced to make this wilderness our home are, often unfortunately, burdened with being better.
