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Creating a New Cultural Awakening Out of Chaos
The election should not distract us from the bigger picture we all need to paint of a greener planet
Red, White, Blue, and Green?
The New York Times, today, is splashing red, white, and blue all over the front page as we desperately doom scroll to keep up with the vote count.
Just when you think you can’t handle another barrage of numbers and to-close-for-comfort calls from — possibly from the highest number of pundits ever recorded — you might scroll down to the non-election news for comfort. Guidance even.
Here is an article, for example, telling readers all the nice nations they can move to, in order to find a soothing beachside villa and escape the madness. The trouble is, you will likely need to be able to afford it, and oops! almost everybody is unemployed.
Some of us are tempted, greatly, by this news. Yet, wait a minute, aren’t the oceans rising?
Another trouble is, you will likely need to be able to afford to upend and relocate your life, or have all the network systems in place to sway said nation you are one of the “good” Americans.
There’s more non-political news.