"Grey the sky"
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What can be said or written that is worth saying?

The attitude betrays frustration and depression, Words might flow for the sheer joy of expressing them, but "worth saying" implies a cost. Arguably there is cost when words have meanings, and there is a premium on getting them right--but it this truly so anymore? Babble displaces reasoned discourse. Fabrications displace research. Unwillingness to believe erases memory and certified facts. Who cares? Why struggle to get them right?

I care or I would not have written thus. But I perceive little indicating that my efforts, or the efforts of those more heavily and directly involved in public discourse who also care are much regarded or much rewarded.

"Both ends against the middle. The center cannot hold. Mere anarchy turned loose against the world."
William Butler Yeats

Am I in the middle? I guess that depends upon how one perceives things, but I do fear the center cannot hold.

"It were a miracle if sanity stayed afloat."
Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum

Sanity is sinking.
Assertions of how things are and must be, true, untrue, and undetermined are sinking it. That it is to the advantage of no one that this ship sink notwithstanding.

The assertion of "Never again!" creates the circumstances where it is almost certain to happen again. That which has been set apart as unquestionable rots for lack of questioning.

"The elephants are good but there's dumb."
James Simon Kunen,
The Strawberry Statement

"A dim perception of he knew not what."
Whitehead, quoted by Pirsig in
Lila, An Inquiry into Morals

"You're next."
Danton, when passing the house
of Robespierre en route to the
guillotine