One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

by Omar El Akkad

We are all governed by chance. We are all subjects of distance.

In time, there will be nothing particularly controversial about using these words to describe the things they were created to describe.

Once far enough removed, everyone will be properly aghast that any of this was allowed to happen. But for now, it’s just so much safer to look away, to keep one’s head down, periodically checking on the balance of polite society to see if it is not too troublesome yet to state what to the conscience was never unclear.