Struggling to Find the Words

To put it bluntly, when will more adults in the United States grow up and face reality?

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I’ve written many articles over the past few weeks, only to hit “delete” rather than “publish”. I’m struggling to find the right tone. is an excellent writer, who so often seems to capture my own thoughts, but much more eloquently, as she does here:

While she rues the current state of humanity in one paragraph:

We’ll turn our backs on horrific acts of human butchery and then go watch fictional acts of human butchery, getting ourselves through any discomfort we might experience by reminding ourselves that what we are watching isn’t happening in real life.

She also acknowledges mankind’s potential:

But over the years I have also become acquainted with dynamics inside the human organism which could make this world into a paradise, if we can only get out from underneath our delusion-based conditioning enough to realize them. Within every human being sleeps the potential for…