We’re trying something different today. Rather than waiting until evening to write, we’re diving right in, before anything has a chance to happen, so that we will be unconstrained by mere facts.

I feel bad about all the terrible things I said about the collar yesterday. The collar, of all the options out there, us nothing anyone wanted. It isn’t sexy. It isn’t cool. It’s not particularly modern. But it came into a really bad situation and has done nothing but work tirelessly, thanklessly to make things better and to heal fundamental damage that threatened the freedoms we all take for granted in our daily lives. The collar’s work is boring infrastructure stuff–behind the scenes, slowly accruing, building for the future. Never mind our many complaints, the collar just keeps doing its thing. And our complaints, to be clear, are legit–the collar really is uncomfortable, sometimes painfully so, and it really is just unrelenting in its unattractive stay-the-course soberness. But when you consider that the alternative is a potential disaster that could rob us of all the progress we’ve made and leave us in a terrible, sad, diminished place from which we might well never recover, well– I’m trying to think of a relatable, real-world metaphor that could explain this situation and underline what a hero the collar truly is but nothing really captures it, so let me just say; “Four More Weeks! Four More Weeks! Four More Weeks!”

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