more exemplary persons

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One of the great dimensions of democracy is the well-informed citizen. But time for that is stolen by the normal job world. Nevertheless, sustaining principled journalism is a noble profession.

A great exemplar was Robert McNeil, who died today at 93 (News Hour tribute video). This memorable man of art, as well as addict of news which matters, noted some years ago (tribute video: 10:00 min.) that “Winston Churchill said...the empires of the future are going to be empires of the mind.”

Lovely. But better: Let there be a planetary garden of flourishing ideas, now that the global village has become literal: the 24/7 electronic organon of netwoven humanity (which currently sustains so much trash).

O, how early we are in the evolution of intelligent life, which learned to make awesome weapons before We’re able to keep “human” predators powerless. Death to Putinism and theocracy.