Here is a short summary of the news: The years steal by, fleet of foot. We act as though we have godlike powers to decide our own destiny, but we forget that just above our heads hangs the Damoclean sword of our own design. Faced with a problem, we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky, we guzzle our beer and devour our pizza, we stick with our own kind. We stand again at a historic crossroads: A time of political uncertainty and apocalyptic imagery, racial hatred, and the wanton destruction of human life. Gross negligence, mass extinctions, tropical diseases, conflicts between church and state. The collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism. We should not meekly accept this fate. I know things are hard, but we have to battle through, from the vague regions of celestial space to stony ground. We must be committed to peace. We must be eternally vigilant. We must grasp the opportunities offered. That goes for all of us. We will return after these messages.
Sources: New Oxford American Dictionary, Macquarie Dictionary, Collins COBUILD Primary Learner’s Dictionary