Among the Broken Columns of the Twilight Kingdom

10/21/2022

Those of us who hold to our traditions remain clear-eyed and resolute. We are not poet T.S. Eliot's straw effigies and "hollow men" wandering among the "broken columns" of the "twilight kingdom." We seek to keep nation and civilization - or at any rate, pockets of good sense - going for as long as we can in spite of what we know. We tilt against wind turbines. This is neither comforting nor cause for celebration, but it is, I am convinced, as close to the truth as we can get.

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