I’ve been sitting here, watching independent media webcasts like Redacted with Clayton and Natali Morris, and Dr Steve Turley with Steve Turley. I think they and other independent content creators are responsible journalists, free from the prejudices CNN or MSNBC or FOX News Channel. Still, they have editorial biases, even though they readily acknowledge such biases. More importantly, it takes time to watch these presenters, and that’s time taken away from my own thinking.

We seem to get lost in the weeds exploring who else, besides us, wants to destroy this perfectly good planet. And it’s a useless and futile exercise. The Medici, Tudors. Bourbons , Hapburgs, and countless others, have all had a crack at attaining power. Historical novels and doctoral dissertations have both been written about their hi jinx. It’s a maddening avocation following these power games.

Time to stop. Like my hippie siblings of fifty years ago they, I’ve wondered how to walk away. Sex, drugs and rock-n-roll were appealing alternatives, but not very effective.

Maybe the literary imagination is a limited alternative. Wells, Lewis, Tolkien and Dick created other universes for us to consider. But pursuits in letters won’t stop atom bombs from being proliferated and perhaps used.

“How” is the question.