These essays remind me of Flowers for Algernon, especially the one by Amash. A brief, hopeful flowering of liberty, followed by the inevitable decline back to normal made more tragic and sorrowful by the flowering. To have known and then to have lost freedom. Unbearable. We shouldn’t have started the experiment, realizing we couldn’t con…
These essays remind me of Flowers for Algernon, especially the one by Amash. A brief, hopeful flowering of liberty, followed by the inevitable decline back to normal made more tragic and sorrowful by the flowering. To have known and then to have lost freedom. Unbearable. We shouldn’t have started the experiment, realizing we couldn’t control it forever.
The hasty, deadly exit, though. That’s on Biden. A stain. Dishonor. Weakness. Shame.
These essays remind me of Flowers for Algernon, especially the one by Amash. A brief, hopeful flowering of liberty, followed by the inevitable decline back to normal made more tragic and sorrowful by the flowering. To have known and then to have lost freedom. Unbearable. We shouldn’t have started the experiment, realizing we couldn’t control it forever.
The hasty, deadly exit, though. That’s on Biden. A stain. Dishonor. Weakness. Shame.