3/21: “Iran has 48 hours to make a deal!”
3/23: “Iran has 5 days to make a deal!”
3/26: “Iran has 10 days to make a deal!”
4/7: “Iran has 2 weeks to make a deal!”
4/21: “Iran has until Sunday to make a deal!”
4/25: “…uh they’ll call us at some point”
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
St. John’s HC Rick Pitino on having to play the number one overall seed, Duke, in the Sweet Sixteen:
“I told my players it’s either kill or be killed. For practice yesterday, we dug graves. It’s up to the players now to decide who will be placed in those graves.”
If you are in Boston or NY, do yourself a favor and fly Delta (out of LGA in NY) until TSA is funded. Delta has their own terminal at each and the lines have been extremely normal this weekend