And we’re forced to watch as the worst with the most, ensconced in their violent idiocy – keeping in mind this word’s Greek origin, idios (of the self) – an arrogant self-imposed insulation of circular babble with oneself, deaf to others, to ancestral idioms of wisdom and hospitality to the stranger/other, deaf to the mystery of being the beholden recipient of life and creation, only to insert one’s lethal idiocy and venality as the only voice worth listening to.

The escalation of dominations and violences are symptoms of dying worldviews and systems. Our work is to recognize the disease behind the symptoms. Figuring out how to be accountable and enable never-seen-before modes of being breathes life into possibility.

“For what good are we to an ailing world if we add our frenzies into the mix? “