Light On Dark Water

Either I am right and a catastrophe will occur, or it won’t and I’m crazy. Either way the outlook is not so good.

—Walker Percy, from Love in the Ruins

I’m exaggerating; I don’t really expect a catastrophe in the sense of a sudden and enormous destructive event. But I think we’re heading in a bad direction. Or perhaps I should say we’ve increased our speed in that direction; it’s not as if we were heading in a good direction before.

There is a brief lift of spirits in the fact that a half-African man can win the presidency, a testimony to how far we have moved from slavery and segregation. That will be pleasant for a moment. Beyond that, I can only hope Obama disappoints many of his most fervent supporters.

Don’t ask me to elaborate on that “wrong direction” remark; I’m only going to do so if I can state my case very clearly, and I’m not sure I want to put that much work into it.

Addendum: Jim Manzi speaks for me here.

Addendum 2: Great advice from Eve Tushnet: “Offer this $#@! up, y’all.” (Thanks to Francesca for pointing this out.)

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