This from a fellow blogger:
My output is down lately. I'm finding it harder not to just look away from it all. There are good books to read, history to study, music and chess to play, hikes to take, questions to ponder, family to love, drinks to drink and food to eat, and so much more. Watching my nation and civilization rot and fester just isn't so much fun anymore.
That said, it's also hard not to be terribly angry about it all, and of course I do have things to say about it. So this is probably just a weary spell that will pass.
What times we live in!
Why follow the disturbing events of the day, thereby jeopardizing one's peace of mind, when one can do little about them? Tranquillity of mind and the news don't go well together. Withdrawal and retreat remain options to consider. But on the other side of the question:
The temptation to retreat into one's private life is very strong. But if you give in and let the Left have free rein you may wake up one day with no private life left. Not that 'news fasts' from time to time are not a good idea. We should all consume less media dreck. But there is no final retreat from totalitarians. They won't allow it. At some point one has to stand and fight in defense, not only of the individual and the family, but also of the mediating structures of civil society, that precious buffer zone between the individual and familial and Leviathan.
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