Majority Rules?

History is a nightmare says Stephen Daedalus, but is this hell? Is humanity walking around, shell shocked creatures in a Max Max movie? The rubble has yet to be. Go to Yemen if you’d like a preview. First there’s a plague replete with witches' brew of conspiracy theorizing. Remember, QAnon and Pizzagate, and the refrigerated trucks filled with bodies? Civilization is a fragile thing. Go to Rome. Those ruins are stone. Not plaster props on the Cinecitta lot. Democracy is back to being an experiment. No doubt the US is in a  constitutional crisis particularly with respect to the judiciary and the exective branches. Is a constitutional convention in the offing? What's the thesis, antithesis and synthesis in the current historical dialectic. Populism might be defined as democracy on a bender. Majority rules were not quite what the founders were thinking about when they deployed notions of due process and inalienable rights. Hitler's Willing Executioners is the title of the Daniel Goldhagen book. It's both unthinkable and chastening that Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito and Stalin were what the people wanted.

read "Pet Buddha" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

listen to James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing "It's a Man's World"

and listen to "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Wants to Dance)" by Tina Charles (1975)

and listen to "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne with Belinda Carlisle

and listen to "Twenty-Five Miles From Home" by Edwin Starr