Where people are free, and where liberty is valued, we have, as in the University of South Florida Sundome and Paulfest, eudemonia. Human flourishing, unlimited and peaceful. Two days later, I attended my first (and only) day of the RNC convention. There we witnessed the joyless, force, and fear-filled kabuki of the state party, its favored state media, and its braintrust, known as the Boston mafia. The restaurants and bars near the convention were a wasteland populated only by mismatched groups of police, TSA, National Guard, Homeland security, and other “police.” I was reminded of several 20th century totalitarian regimes … Continue reading Convention Surrealism, Soviet Realism