To the editor:
What we’re witnessing from all corners our current, fractured landscape is not the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, of harmony, peace and understanding, devoid of falsehoods and derisions. This barely recognizable country is no longer captured in a Norman Rockwell painting, oh, no, no; Norman has been replaced by a Picasso abstract.
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