We are in a temporal loop. George Santayana’s 1905 observation that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” remains (ironically?) indelible, but it isn’t even the half of it. Repetition suggests a start, ending, and restart, but really we’ve been marching in place for some 30 years with no tangible resolution to speak of.
Advertisement If you want a sense of how far we haven’t come, revisit the PC debates of the early ’90s. Names may have changed but the story is still the same. Consider the following quotes:
“McCarthyism of the Left makes open debate irrelevant.”