Human nature

The passage of time has a way of providing us with perspective and one looks back at the wreckage of the Trump era with a disbelief which will only grow as it becomes noteworthy historical record.

We knew many people aren't clever but the degree to which that was true was made even more marked in a time when we have the most access ever to information. Trump is still giving garbled and incoherent speeches directly contradicting his own previous pronouncements because he knows his deluded followers won't bother to fact check and they watch echo chamber media. He is also the far and away front runner in a party that has become a national embarrassment thanks in large part to its courting of the lowest common denominator to advance itself over the last 40 years.

George Orwell looks more prophetic by the day and as we continue to move into the 21st century, clearly no amount of technological progress will cure what ails human nature.