web posted March 1, 2021
As I look out my second-story, home-office window onto Cold Spring Road in Indianapolis, Indiana “Crossroads of America” a young woman, driving a silver, late-model Chrysler, pulls off to the side of the road, gets out of her car, takes a gas tank from the back seat, opens the car hood, puts out a cigarette dangling from her mouth, and leans against the driver’s door in leisured anticipation of her first mark. Within seconds, a car turns the corner off of busy Michigan Road and the woman jumps into action. Grabbing the gas can, she places herself in the middle of the road, arms flailing in desperation. The driver, a man who appears to be in his sixties, has only two options: either stop and help the lady in distress, or, assuming there is no oncoming traffic, veer to his left to avoid hitting her. He stops in his lane, rolls down the window, and listens to the woman’s anguished cries of “I’m out of gas” and “I gotta
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web posted January 18, 2021
For America’s obdurate ideologues, it has always been an intellectual challenge to connect the historical dots. Inexorable as these connective dots may be, the ideologues’s ability to parse language, compartmentalize issues, and rationalize destructive behavior allow them to move seamlessly from one cause du jour to another, with little reflection on what preceded and influenced the current crisis at hand.
In the 1930’s, our domestic socialists and communists lauded Stalin even as he sent millions to their death in the Gulags. While condemning Hitler publicly, Roosevelt quietly refused port of entry for the
S.S. St. Louis that was carrying 937 Jewish refugees, many of them children escaping the Nazis deathcamps. Recently, one of the most glaring examples of historical cognitive dissonance was the 9/11 attack on America, which was peddled as a natural “blowback” to America’s imperial hegemony,
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