I’m calming down. People go through periodic spasms of irrationality born out of frustration, fear, incomprehension, anger, or some combination thereof. So, too, do communities, and by extension, countries. Spreading it out across a wider base tends to mitigate some of the worse aspects of these spasms, but not all.
First, an image:
I shot that some time in the late 70s, a stack of automobile frames on a railroad car. I shot it precisely because it looked like a waving flag and at the time I thought something along the lines of “this would be a more appropriately national symbol.”…