Independence Day 2020: Missing The Aging Rebel Donald Charles Davis
“I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, And said, "Comrade! Brother!”- Stephen Crane It is July 4th. Independence Day in the United States. It is also 2020. In 2020 we have had COVID-19. We have seen our country shuddered and ordered to shelter in place, as if we were the British waiting for the Luftwaffe to bomb any visible light during the Blitz. We have seen police exert extreme force. We have seen young, disaffected youth violently destroy property and generally display the wanton use of force that they have decried. Historical monuments were removed or destroyed in some senseless, impotent act of rage, which was essentially saying "We don't like the things you've been saying so we're going to trample on your free speech and freedom of expression. Because we're passionate about Free Speech unless it is Free Speech that offends us or speech we can interpret as infringin...