I’ll have the reading group post up later this month, but I wanted to note this passage before then. How do we keep ourselves as a nation from following our own patriotic road too far?
I think that bridge has been crossed so far back that it has collapsed for want of maintenance. Was it this bad in the Civil Rights era? I don’t know, I wasn’t there. It feels like the US is headed for explosive (or implosive) dysfunction.
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series remains great science fiction today even though the technology is amusingly quaint. The inexorable crumbling of the Empire seems applicable here.