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And foe-of-convenience, the United States, barely the hope of the world, guilty of torture, helpless before its sacred text conceived in an age of powdered wigs, a constitution as unchallengeable as the Koran. Its nervous population obese, fearful, tormented by inarticulate anger, contemptuous of governance, murdering sleep with every new handgun.
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We’ll always be troubled by how things are—that’s how it stands with the difficult gift of consciousness.
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But here’s life’s most limiting truth—it’s always now, always here, never then and there.