Steve Russell
1 min readJul 13, 2021

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How long we can bumble along with this level of crazy is pure speculation. Mr. Biden jerked us back into shared reality with a speed that is still giving some people whiplash, but our international reputation is harder to rebuild,

Also, we can't deny it's s two party system and the crazy owns one of the two.

I keep trying to look at it like Adam Smith's "invisible hand." I want to believe sanity is self-correcting.

For instance, globalization has put us all in competition, so it seems to me that those countries that refuse to educate half of their brain trust are doomed to shovel horseshit behind the parade of countries led by smart people....but when?

A girl gets acid thrown in her face for going to school and shot as well....and the only reason she lives is that her dad spirited her off to the UK, which has had a queen since WWII and has had a woman Prime Minister. It is a country where, like the US, girls get educated.

But Pakistan is still Pakistan, where a woman could seek office only as the daughter of s man hanged on trumped up charges....and even she gets assassinated.

Educating girls will pay off...when?

Crazy will crumble....when?

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Steve Russell
Steve Russell

Written by Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)

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