Maybe my grief is for a world that kills its prophets and belatedly inflates and glorifies its martyrs, rather than celebrating their gifts, limitations, and humanity while they live.

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To Children of the Present

on history that never was and all that might be

What a Shrink Thinks

@shrinkthinks This is huge: Maybe my grief is for a world that kills its prophets and belatedly inflates and glorifies its martyrs, rather than celebrating their gifts, limitations, and humanity while they live.

Maybe I mourn for us, and for who we are and what we do to each other, instead of for them.