This is the great test of our democracy.

This is what chaos feels like.
We are evolving. As people and as a people.

Evolution is not a steady ascent to greatness.
It is a story.

You tell the story.
Your words.

This is what chaos feels like.
What is it?

What happens next?

Some tell of a return to glory.
Others of a nation in ruin.

I tell of evolution.
The last great resurgence of human ethnocentrism.
A clear reminder of the world we leave behind.

Unstable resurrection.
A dialogue with phantoms.
Ships that meet in the night.

So converse.
Notice the thoughts to be rethought.
Realize compassion for the thinker.
The thinker is You. Us. We.

You tell the story.
You chose the words.

This is what chaos feels like.
What is it?

Demosthenes Fourtyeight

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d48 is an American-born psychologist and author. He is also a person IRL, but his IRL alter-ego does not wish to be named.