Reflections on America's Political Climate

I've always been deeply interested in topics related to philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. By nature I'm a curious person so I've always been drawn to the "big questions" of philosophy: Why does something exist rather than nothing? What is the good life? Do we have free will? And so on. I think about these kinds of topics constantly, and I enjoy writing about them and working out my thoughts on them.

Inevitably, however, some new crisis in my country will happen, and I will find myself dealing with a sense of disconnect between the stuff I like thinking about and writing about, and the harsh realities of everyday existence in the world. This morning I woke up to the news about how an ICE agent shot and killed an American citizen in Michigan, a mother whom the president has now falsely accused of being a professional agitator. It's yet another case where video evidence blatantly contradicts the official narrative. It's so typical of what's been happening in the country. And then of course there is the troubling recent event of the Trump administration's illegal kidnapping of a foreign leader all for the admitted purpose of bringing Venezuela's natural resources under American control.