The Death of a Comedian
(The following serves as a record of the beliefs of a mask-wearing, vaccine-receiving, liberal globalist who frequently catches a glimpse of human excellence. Why should the future of such a noble species be anything other than the creation of a perpetual and just civilization? If the unspeakable occurs, I hope to find myself standing among the rubble, attempting to once again assemble a Tower of Babel, restarting the only conversation worth having. “How do we get Further?”) My fear is the ever-lurking reality of a dramatic social retrograde. A return to forms of prejudices allegedly conquered. Those of race, of antisemitism, of a particular worldview where nothing is as it seems, where everything can be explained by the keys to history that only a brave few are willing to embrace. We were unwise to welcome the peace of a temporary cordiality with pure madness. In vain, an unearned victory was declared while the madness festered under the skin of a supposedly health body-politic. M...