the only thing bringing me any comfort these days is this line from C.S. Lewis's Narnia series [View all]

[Tumbulu]

This line from the first book in The Narnia Series : "The Magician's Nephew" in which Digory says to his uncle Andrew: "Very well. I'll go. But there is one thing I jolly well mean to say first. I didn't believe in Magic till today. I see now it's real. Well if it is, I suppose all the old fairy tales are more or less true. And you're simply a wicked, cruel magician like the ones in the stories. Well, I've never read a story in which people of that sort weren't paid out in the end, and I bet you will be. And serve you right."

It came up because someone was comparing the AI image of T as a pope with Shift the Ape in the last book of the series entitled "The Last Battle"

I don't know, personally, I do not believe that it is possible to be a united states anymore. And who will ever go to work for the Federal Government again after all this terrorism to employees? And top scientists are moving thanks to the "Cultural revolution" instigated by the tech bros.....

The hubris of those in urban areas ignoring the propaganda from Limbaugh onwards for 40 years now- two generations- got us into this spot. I cannot see how we get out of it without simply becoming separate nations.

Hoping sincerely to be wrong.