Ending the Age of Gaslightenment

Why America’s mind is broken, and how we can fix it.

Photo by Miltiadis Fragkidis on Unsplash

Watching the brutal season finale of America’s war games in Afghanistan, I find myself heartbroken, but unsurprised. Of course our nation-building project “failed.” Democracy was never why we went into Afghanistan — that was just a pretense to make a deliberately-endless resource war sound palatable. “Freedom isn’t…