Walter Rhett: Thanksgiving and the Winds of Fate

The turning of the winds bring new casts of fate. The ancients knew when the winds warned and when the winds said move, and when the winds brought the village to a standstill.

We have lost their discernment. We have abandoned their reason. We have substituted political spin.

Arguments against healthcare are made without a single image of the sick and ill in view, only the screams of the pain of dollars untethered from compassion and common sense. Arguments against employment now are made by citing a generation of unborn grandchildren. The arguments against ending the filibuster are open threats of even greater abuse when the minority party gets its turn. The argument against higher wages is that record profits will rise slower.

Spin has its own velocity of calculated turns. Is it wise for investors to value at $20 billion a company that transmits messages of 140 characters without a save or archive function, whose biggest innovation is “#” (a hashtag)?