Robert C. Koehler: War and the soul of desperation
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Mar 28, 2024
3 minutes
I call it “naked insanity,” as in: the emperor has no clothes.
He has no sane and transcendent values, no wisdom — not when it comes to survival. Global governance is consumed by power. Those who have it insist on keeping it, no matter the cost. Hence: nuclear weapons . . . and the threat to use them! Hence: climate change, a.k.a., ecocide.
I stroke the unknown,
the dark silence, the
soul of a mother. I
pray, if that’s what
prayer is: to stir the certainties of
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