Admittedly, I have thus far withdrawn. I don't feel energized enough to be loud just yet. I feel drained, defeated, hopeless, unrelentingly anxious. For my mental health, I need a moment of silence. Some distance. I understand this is a privileged position to be in, and I need to snap out of it.

Palantir... did Peter Thiel not read LOTR, or did he read it and is not so subtly telling us that his mind has been enslaved by the Dark Lord Sauron???

Yikes! I guess we need those blue checkmarks over here.