government
The stupidity and blindness of American power, which, in its own terms is perfectly “logical”—and yet its terms are fantastically arbitrary and respond only to the “reality” of a thinking that goes on within an artificial and closed system. To defend your own reality and then impose it forcefully on the outside world is paranoia.
October 25, 1967 journal entry in The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 5.
My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.
“Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,”The New York Times, August 14, 2011.
The end of an Empire is messy at best
And this Empire is ending
Like all the rest
“A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” Harps and Angels (Nonesuch, August, 2008).