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Then the war in which we had refused to believe broke out, und it brought-disillusionment.
Sigmund Freud, "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" (1915)
You read this at the start of a new year. May this year indeed be new, a year of peace and well-being for you and all things.
I write this in New York City in early November. Yesterday was Election Day, and the news is filled with the promises of the reelected and the newly elected. May they dedicate themselves to peace and well-being for all things.
As I write, I remember September 2001. We live in the future of that time. Might it have been different? A terrible, blessed quietness followed the trauma of 9/11. In that...