Pictured Above: Max Liebermann – “Beer Garden near the Havel under Trees”, 1920
No, I’m not going insane. I’m just using this week’s blog post to engage in some stream of consciousness. So this post will be long and wandering, but I promise – I do have a point or two to make.
Regardless of where you stand politically, the recent assasination of Charlie Kirk was the latest in a string of public violence which should raise alarm bells about why so many Americans have become socially isolated, mentally ill, and radicalized by the internet into holding profoundly anti-social views. (I’m thinking not only of political assassinations and attacks, such as the slaying of several Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, or the two failed assassination attempts on Donald Trump last year, but also of the all-too-frequent school shootings and mass terror attacks in this country).
