tax the rich, not the people

It's not the writer's job to solve the problem, only to state it correctly, Anton Chekhov said (somewhere.)

And it's true:something's wrong with everything.

The left side of the brain--the language side--is overburdened by the successess and failures of the past and often misses the point of the present moment.

What we are thinking is what we are trying to say, and our ability to state the problem correctly gets garbled.

Things that seem simple, aren't; complexity and nuance are the last things on our minds, though we sense, deeply in our hearts, that things are far from right.

"The struggle to create modern political institutions was so long and painful that people living in industrialized countries now suffer from a historical amnesia regarding how their societies came to that point in the first place," writes Francis Fukuyama in "The Origins of Political Order."