It's far preferable to walk away from the scourge of stupidity; Further, it is worse a disease than alcoholism can ever be. At worse, alcoholics can affect dozens of people, family, friends, while the latter can topple democracies, mountains or the rare Renaissance.
For the past several days, after pondering where we are as a nation, what just happened in Washington, and what Joe Biden faces as he takes the office of President, I was working on a piece that is now on the cover of the new issue of Time Magazine. Thanks to @TIME for the cover