Were You Really Surprised?

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy our capacity to form any.

– Hannah Arendt

Were you truly surprised by the shooting of Republican congressmen as they practiced for a baseball game? Why? Was it that members of the ruling Establishment – rather than persons attending a rock concert – were targeted? Or, like so many of your neighbors, did you not see the connections that underlie processes of causation?  The Establishment’s mainstream media...