Well again, the Catholic Church has somehow mastered both quite well, so there’s that…

shots fired

Is that our only choice then, lying or leveraging our brute force? Or do we wash our hands and say

”wasn’t in the prospectus”

thoughts prayers and crisis management.

ok that was a low blow

I don’t want to change your mind. You have your names for your paradoxes, we all do.

But shouldn’t we at least

acknowledge reality?

We’re 25 when China invents printing but we wait a couple years to let our European company take the credit.

We’re gloating over America being the GOAT at democracy, but back in 1142 ODB The Great Peacemaker founded the Five Nations of Iroquois Confederacy, possibly the world’s oldest democratically functioning body.

blessed are the peacemakers

Yeah, history shows how well that worked out for them. Don’t you see?