Just a little note. Dictators are a pretty complicated bunch. And it really might be what (t)Rump wants to become. I imagine it’s sort of what it was like when Adolf was coming into power. Everybody just went “no big deal”. Until much later it ended up being a very big deal. Some very good books have been written. “The Feast of the Goat” by Mario Vargas Llosa, a novel about Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. “The Autumn of the Patriarch” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Actually, Naomi Wolf touches on some of the atrocities committed by dictators in Africa, in her book “Vagina”. Truly insane people. Mindbogglingly fascinating. Really made me wonder about our definition of freedom. More than that, it made me wonder about all the different things said about God. How is any of this possible?

You have to remember that I’m but one eight billionth of Humanity, and what I think is of no importance on that scale. But it’s sort of interesting; decades ago, while still living on Cannery Row, (this was before it turned into just another huge tourist attraction) we already saw that our Country was beginning to go down. Later, at the Academy, I stood on the position that if indeed America needed to get off its mighty horse and really was going down, that our duty, as artists, was to help this happen as quickly as possible so that we could bottom out and begin to grow upwards again. I was so much younger then. Pretty ignorant. I now believe that each of us makes this world. And in the face of very big odds we still can do good. I believe hotwu showed me that. Being human is pretty alright.