A lot’s been going on lately. Politically, I mean. Stuff we don’t want to discuss here. Stuff that turns Facebook and Twitter into fetid fever swamps of amateur punditry and carefully cultivated outrage.
Time, in other words, to remember our Kierkegaard: “Talk takes the name of enthusiasm in vain by proclaiming loudly from the housetop what it should work out in silence.”
by Linda Witherup