“If 50,000,000 say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” - Anatole France

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual” by Arnold Kunst
2 March
When you pander to your fears you commit a kind of blasphemy. Fear always comes hidden within a kind of riddle. We’re supposed to decode the riddle and then get on with doing our thing anyway. Unfortunately, that’s all on the far side of ‘pander to your fears.’