By KHALIL SPENCER
Los Alamos
In response to a recent discussion that has gone truly toxic (link, link, link, link, link) I offer this, from a poem by William Butler Yeats, that was the introduction of an essay written by conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” … Read more here.