How Are We To Live?
I am writing this on November 6, 2024, a few hours after waking up to the see the results of the Election. If you are looking for answers, unfortunately I have none to provide you. Nor I do I have any sort of concrete set of plans. Instead, as I lay in bed unable to get back to sleep, I came up with three principles that I hope to follow in the days, weeks, and months ahead. I think this is going to be bad, bad in a way that none of us who have lived our entire lives in the United States have ever experienced. How bad, in what ways, we can speculate about but not really actually know. For me, in this kind of uncertainty, what matters is having a set of priorities and clear principles that you can rely on to navigate your way through chaos. So, here are the ones I plan to be using. Perhaps it can be useful to you as you process and make sense of what has happened. 1. What Matters Is Each Other. I am not a rich or powerful man by any means, but I live a comfortable life and am