For the rest of this summer I’ll be working, tending a garden, and reading War and Peace so that if Americans are all shooting each other a few months from now, my last words won’t be “But I never read War and Peace!”
Apropos how Americans feel about each other, if you try to follow the link to my Twitter account in a previous post, you’ll see that I’ve deleted it once again. Twitter experienced a micro-renaissance during quarantine but has now gone back to doing what it does best, namely making people hate each other and eroding their ability to think for themselves. Somewhere in the spirit world, Marshall McLuhan is chuckling at my naiveté.
These are dark times. The only advice I have is to build strong relationships with the people who surround you in real life, and appreciate those people in their full complexity rather than reducing them to their opinions on issues.
Have a good summer!