The Up and Down of It: Ukraine
Yesterday I wrote about the grid of everything because I like that image and because it serves some of the ideas I wish to explore in this letter.
Like,
. . . how, in a post-modern era when authority is purchased, the internet images “on the grid” space too vast, flat, and indeterminate to chart, and long after Dante made hell cooler than heaven, Shakespeare crowned words above royals, and James Brown sang:
You got ta get down down down down down-- down on the ground,
I can map meaning, plot values in proximate, and get up to, you know, do my thang.
Then today I clicked into the news that President Biden is preparing to send troops to Ukraine so as to--what will it be?--undermine Putin’s aggression or stand tall with allies or raise some flag of freedom.
For sure I know nothing of substance about the situation. And likely as not the move itself is necessary. Putin will make the world his slave if he can.
But the news did up end all my over-think: Another land war in Europe? A downer no matter how you figure it.