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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Today after 568 episodes I posted the final installment of #TolstoysTalesofTrump Grateful to all who encouraged and RT’d. Writing these helped keep me sane. But by laughing at a figure of moral ruin I hoped to honor values that matter—love, truth, unselfishness, gentleness.
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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
1. This marks the 400th posting of #TolstoysTalesofTrump! Learning that even my own father @DanielEllsberg was mystified by this saga, perhaps some explanation is in order. First: These are not actually written by Tolstoy (1828-1910), who did not live to see the rise of Twitter.
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Joe Cerami
@josephrcerami
Speaking of Russia-finally read Dostoevsky’s masterpiece. I see a lot of paterfamilias Karamazov in Trump: “A petty knave, a toady and buffoon, of fairly good though undeveloped, intelligence, he was, after all, a moneylender, who grew bolder with growing prosperity.”
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Joe Cerami
@josephrcerami
“On the spiritual side he was undeveloped, while his vitality was excessive. He saw nothing in life but sensual pleasure, and he brought his children up to be the same. He had no feelings for his duties as a father.”
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