The Best & The Brightest

In the early weeks of the new decade, the government had gathered the “Best and the Brightest” to contemplate the existential problems that the nation faced. among their conclusions was the idea that if the government failed to stop the fall of a provincial capitol to the enemy, the entire set of dominos would surely follow and fall as well. The great Nation would be left bereft in the face of her enemies, and doomed to be conquered by those who hated her. No… we are NOT talking about the 1960s and Southeast Asia. But, as Mark Twain once said, history echoes itself. So today, when a government makes certain assumptions about how things are going, one wonders if they know anything about human nature? At. All.