I have to try to be done writing for today.

I can't believe that genocide and the repression of human rights are now routine in the 21st century.  I don't have to be an expert to recognize that's what's going on, that the world's democracies have turned into timid, fearful, selfish, self-congratulatory places.  This is not all President Trump's fault.  Two administrations in a row have allowed what is happening in Syria.  It is a systemic failure of principle among leadership in the United States and around the world:  leadership at every level and in every sector.  What have the world's most powerful institutions been doing for a decade?  Media.  Corporations.  Cultural establishments.  All giggling about vaginas, while thousands of people are imprisoned, tortured and murdered and millions are turned into refugees living in the remnants of bombed buildings or outside without enough food, medical care or anything else resembling civilization.

Who's going to explain all of this to the next generation? "We were having some fun and didn't have time to worry about the implosion of reason; you understand, don't you?"