Causality & Shadows

When I was mining those Youtube clips from 1776 for my little appreciation of President John Adams, I noticed another clip from the movie: “Molasses to Rum.” I find that clip one of the most chilling in movie history. While I’m endlessly an admirer of the American dream, I’m also profoundly aware very little happens with a single causal thread, and how frequently good mixes with ill. “Molasses to Rum” sings to America’s original sin.

If we hope for the Republic to thrive, or just to limp through these horrendous times where we appear to totter at the edge of the chasm of fascism we need to recall the shadows, pebbles in the road, and much worse, that threaten this dream of human possibility…