Atlanta’s pollen season arrives like a political crisis: overnight, everywhere, impossible to breathe through. At Eastertime, I’m thinking about what renewal actually looks like when it’s happening to you – not the soft-focus version, but the detonation.
Which means thinking about China’s stranglehold on rare earths, Russia’s gas leash on Europe, Iran’s proxy franchise. Three decades of “order” produced strategic dependency on America’s principal adversaries. Something had to change. Whether what’s changing now produces something better, or just produces more mess, is the question none of us can answer yet.
We’re still in the pollen.
Robyn Curnow’s podcast, “Searching for America”, examines the US from her outsider perspective – as a South African living in the American South.
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