Ideas

You can’t kill an idea. Millenarianism will not be quashed by force. That, in fact, is the problem with intangibles. You can swat a fly or a person, but you can’t exterminate QAnon or for that matter Comintern. There are antidotes to poison and people carry epipens for anaphylactic reactions, but what are you gonna go do about Fourier or the Federalist society. In fact ideas resemble rambunctious children. The more you tell them to pipe down, the louder they get. What fuels the fires is suffering. Ideas thrive on misery.  That’s where the idea of a messiah comes from.

read "Current Events" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star