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Saturday, January 1, 2022

Slouching towards Bethlehem?

Joan Didion died 9 days ago,
on December 23, 2021
Yeats said it first

By Moristotle

A dear friend warned me this morning that a massive change is coming along with a truth that will rock the entire world, but when I asked him what the changes would be and whether they would involve the Second Coming, he was willing to characterize them only as “another chance for human kind to straighten up and fly right and be nice to each other.” I was reminded of W.B. Yeats’ 1919 poetic description of big changes he saw coming over a hundred years ago. I read it again today, and I invite you to read it too: