Where are we really?
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1 min readJan 22, 2017
Listen to the speeches of the past two days and you’d think this country was on the brink of collapse. On the one hand, “this American carnage”: America as an economic wasteland besieged by immigrants and in constant, zero-sum conflict with foreign powers. On the other, a nation faltering towards fascism, watching its human and civil rights slip away. We are bombarded with dire assessments and ominous predictions.
This language of fear we use so frequently is corrosive. It erodes the trust and affection that holds us all together, and it burdens us as individuals with the stress that pessimism creates.
Where are we really? How do we evaluate our condition? How do we speak to one another? How do we listen?
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