Curt Doolittle updated his status.

(FB 1551032329 Timestamp) I wish I could capture into words the world view when this song was written compared to the world view today. —” There is no pain you are receding A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying “– We lived in a civilizational luxury, at the cost of continuous civilizational warfare. We were dragging mankind out of the dark. But in doing it paid too high a price. The collapse of communism was good for mankind. The collapse of the russian empire, rather than its conversion into a conservative version of european civilization on the eastern european model is the great catastrophe of the second half of the twentieth century. If you had told me that a decade ago I would have disagreed.