T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and Sean Dempsey’s America, 2023 both confront the spiritual and moral decay of civilization, but they do so from opposite emotional poles. Eliot’s poem is elegiac: a whispered lament for a world hollowed out by inertia and disillusionment. His “stuffed men” drift without agency, trapped in the shadow between […]
Systemic racism, inequity, and rampant prejudice exist in America? Yes, absolutely! But it’s not caused by the reasons you may think. Want to actually fix the problem vs white-washing the symptoms? Here’s how: 1) Abolish All Racist Drug Laws 20+ million black Americans have been arrested for non-violent drug-related crimes. Whether or not they were […]
By Sean Dempsey, 06/09/23 Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant land of Uzhok, Ukraine, deep in the Carpathian mountain range, there lived a courageous father named Ivan and his 16 year old son, Roman. They lived alone, just the two of them, as the boy’s mother had died when Roman was very young. They […]
