marianne, are you familiar with john hagelin? in 2000, he ran for prez in the natural law party. permanentpeace.org/about.htm… he didn't think it was silly either but the US wasn't having it. wouldn't even allow him in the debates.

I absolutely love your idea for that department. Played my first concert with that sticker in my guitar. #Peace

Paraphrasing: We are dealing with a whole society that has worshiped its light side and refused the dark, and this residue appears as war, addiction, economic chaos, strikes, racial intolerance... and internet trolling. amazon.com/dp/B00B72CFQW/

After George Floyd was killed, my wife and I went out into the streets of Chi to a people so stricken with a collective grief that for a brief moment I thought anger would swallow us all. That was a dark force within a people created by a state of power that had broken trust

It’s never been silly.

Periodt

That’s right

You said it, Marianne