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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.
We’ll always be troubled by how things are—that’s how it stands with the difficult gift of consciousness.
But here’s life’s most limiting truth—it’s always now, always here, never then and there.