Pandemic Reflection Pool

Pandemic Reflection Pool by Charles Krblich at Brownstone Institute The revelations of the last two weeks bring to mind the very first two weeks, six years ago today. The truths now laid bare are a song that once meant something to us — music that helped us move past heartbreak, yet whose melody now recalls thoughts and feelings long buried. Soft and inescapable, a profound melancholy returns. I have often wondered what psychological mechanism marked the difference between those people who complied with any absurdity and those who never did. Today, Homer’s myth of heroism, The Odyssey, plays in the theaters. Meanwhile playing on the televisions is another version of the Narcissus myth, this time pleading the Fifth. To...

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