It’s Getting Late Early

In two days I fly back to a United States that resembles a parody of a third world country: anti-intellectualism, hypocritical religiosity, racism, sexism, tribalism. The bitter predictions of visitors like de Toquevillle, Dickens, Oscar Wilde now seem to have come horribly true: a once hopeful experiment in freedom has been all but destroyed by a lack of spiritual values, empty consumer materialism, a love of wealth and money, and the shadow of slavery that still poisons our air.