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Peak Hubris

Peak Hubris “Hubris” is defined as rash and foolish pride, a dangerous overconfidence, manifested with arrogance.  The Deep State vaunts our “exceptionalism”, and since Reagan’s “City on a HIll” trope Americans have been assured by all succeeding Presidents that ours is the “indispensible nation”. The word describes the way America sells itself to the world, […]

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When Worse is the Enemy of Bad

When Worse is the Enemy of Bad Photo source davitydave | CC BY 2.0 There comes a time in the decline of an empire when–in its hubris, its arrogance–it decouples from reason and blindly blunders toward its fate in a ludicrous ugly trance of stupidity.  To paraphrase Walter Cronkite–we are there. Trump makes his one positive, […]

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When Empire’s Die

When Empire’s Die When empires begin to die, their public acts–in sharp contrast to the ponderous, stately sobriety of their behavior while ascendant–tend to be marked by queer and pathetic eruptions of idiocy, bathos, and mania. Though it can’t be known when our last Imperial Clown will douse the last lights of The Exceptional Empire […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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