Subject: Watching the Herd
A truly great essayist.

Here's a snippet from a recent post titled "Being There in Trump's America"

So here America sits, in the middle of a US-initiated war that no one fourteen months ago thought anyone would be insane enough to launch. The American government launched this war amid a government shutdown, when crucial law enforcement and public safety departments are understaffed while the level of threat facing the country is arguably the highest it has been in twenty five years since September 11, 2001. The country is saddled with a President whose attention span is so crippled he cannot be bothered to read a briefing on his war but instead requires a meme-style video montage peppered with enough gore to spike his interest before he’ll consider ingesting any information.

https://substack.com/@watching...