This Is Not the Moment to Give Up

Yes, the situation we find ourselves in is far worse than we think and maybe worse than we can imagine. . . . And yes, the actions offered by our governments amount to “too little too late”. . . And yes, the promise of technological salvation delivered via mystical “market forces” is complete nonsense . . .Yes, that may all be true. And that should

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We should not say to fearful people, “You’re overreacting.”

It is absolutely true that people immersed in media of any kind react to news and rumors in unhelpful ways. But meeting anxiety with an accusation of overreacting is not likely to help. The biggest problem in most of the United States as I write is that many people, and many institutions, a

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You defeat a despot at the ballot box and work to create political affiliations and movements to undermine their destructive goals or else the problem gets worse. You cannot kill ideas. We should have learned this during the War on Terror and yet the faulty notion continues to proliferate.