Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time. " I'd heard … - Peter van Agtmael

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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Peter van Agtmael

Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time. " I'd heard a small part of it in a play, a sort of sci-fi play about morality in a virtual reality universe. Nothing to do with the book precisely, but it was a great play.

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The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the media played in not just missing a certain part of American society that wanted to vote for, say, Donald Trump, but what role has the media played in dehumanizing other people and helping create these conditions that people are so afraid of, say, Muslims and extremism?

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Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history of what might be connected to the theme in the pictures and those are worth exploring.

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The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9
11.

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