Today is the anniversary of Martin Luther King's Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech.
It's a sad irony (How many times have I used this phrase in the past three years?) that it comes the day after what seemed like a bad drug trip that lasted four nights. I'm talking about the Republican National Convention, which featured more gaslighting than Angela Lansbury's first film.* Dreaming--more precisely, exhorting your audience to envision and follow your dream--is an invitation to a journey toward a better place. What happened at the convention is the exact opposite: Speakers imputed sinister motives, words and actions to their enemies and hellish conditions to places that had been doing well (or, at least, improving) until the COVID-19 epidemic.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the tone of the convention, given that Trump has not only vowed not to ride a bike, but has jeered cyclists. On the other hand, MLK was known to take a spin. And, like Einstein, he looked so happy in the saddle!
*--Like many people, I thought Gaslight was a Hitchcock film until I saw it. George Cukor, in fact, directed it.
It's a sad irony (How many times have I used this phrase in the past three years?) that it comes the day after what seemed like a bad drug trip that lasted four nights. I'm talking about the Republican National Convention, which featured more gaslighting than Angela Lansbury's first film.* Dreaming--more precisely, exhorting your audience to envision and follow your dream--is an invitation to a journey toward a better place. What happened at the convention is the exact opposite: Speakers imputed sinister motives, words and actions to their enemies and hellish conditions to places that had been doing well (or, at least, improving) until the COVID-19 epidemic.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the tone of the convention, given that Trump has not only vowed not to ride a bike, but has jeered cyclists. On the other hand, MLK was known to take a spin. And, like Einstein, he looked so happy in the saddle!
*--Like many people, I thought Gaslight was a Hitchcock film until I saw it. George Cukor, in fact, directed it.
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