As Intelligence Goes Up, Happiness Often Goes Down

Yesterday I took in The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. The movie itself isn't depressing, but its parallels are. The most depressing one by far is my conviction that the only population that learned anything from the episode is the politicians, including Barack 'Look Ahead Not Back' Obama. As history has so conclusively demonstrated, if you ignore history everything will be just fine.

If God be just – and that's a big "if" – there is a special Hell awaiting the vast majority of post-World War 2 Americans (including me), Easter notwithstanding.