Fail Hydra
"...if the Constitution be destined ever to perish by the sacrilegious hands of the demagogue or the usurper..."
Hi! How are you? What’s new? Nothing? Good to hear! I’m really enjoying all the peace and quiet, these days, aren’t you?
*sigh*
I may have to change the name of this newsletter, because no storyworld I could conjure up would compare with the ornate delusions of the fabulists parading across all of our screens. Sometimes, to cope, you just have to break out in song.
That last one hits a bit too close to home. I’ve found it very difficult to work ever since, oh, let’s say, last Wednesday. I was planning on beginning a new project last week, but I haven’t been able to muster the focus in order to start. And I vacillate between wanting to only make jokes and thinking that nothing will be funny ever again. Things like this don’t help:
Seeing the blatantly anti-Semitic shirts worn by some of the insurrectionists — and the shock of so many people seeing that these people exist and feel free to blatantly flout their hatred — knocked me back to the time I found myself in a Neo-Nazi’s tattoo shop in North Carolina.
Phrenzy
In 1805, after being run out of politics in the aftermath of his fatal duel with Alexander Hamilton, and after getting a close-up view to the way that Thomas Jefferson would use any power at his disposal to destroy his political opponents, Aaron Burr closed out his single term as Vice President with an Farewell Address to the Senate. The full remarks were not recorded, but we have some quotes. And though he meant to target his words at the “phrenzies” of his own time, they were eerily prophetic.
I suppose I should also remind you that NOVEL ADVICE is on sale at your local booksellers. I’ve heard from folks lately that it provides a nice respite from the ongoing mayhem. Pick up a copy for your favorite relative or your least favorite seditious insurrectionist today!
In the meantime, please stay safe. And remember the words of the foremost political figure of our time, Princess General Leia Organa, who said:
—Jay