The train has not only run off the tracks but has rolled down a ravine. Smoke belches from the wreckage. Parents, kids, and grandkids—several generations scattered among the carnage—beckon with blood- and soot-streaked hands, “Join us down here! We are going places. This is progress!” A few of us stand on the lonely hillside and…
Category: authority
“Trust Your Feelings, Luke”
Almost anyone in my generation immediately flashes back to Luke Skywalker’s harrowing flight over the surface of the Death Star. He is sweating bullets as he makes his way towards the tiny two-foot target at which he’ll only get one shot. At this most pressing moment, the voice of his dead mentor, Obi Wan, comes…