A Quantum Experience of Inauguration Day

I had a joyful Inauguration Day, until I turned on MSNBC.

Both self-states were true. The day was joyful, and it was horrific. It was a matter of both/and not either-or. I had a joyful day marking the damage that Lady Liberty had suffered and celebrating the promise of her renewal. Trump poured forth a chaos of words in his acceptance speech (more “American carnage” with a heady dose of threats), followed by signing dozens of Executive Orders.

He pardoned over 1500 insurrectionists. Foreign nations “empty their prisons to send us their criminals”—Trump’s typical projection. Back in power, he makes his projection real. Soon they will form Trump’s Sturmabteilung, the paramilitary storm troopers that will do his will extrajudicialy, as they did on January 6th. Will they don brown shirts? We’ll see.

It was a yin-yang kind of day. Light and dark were both true. In the light dark emerged, in the dark light emerged.

In quantum physics light is a particle if you perform one experiment, a wave if you perform another. It all depends how you look at it. Every moment of every day is a quantum experiment: how will I frame it?

I had a particle-wave kind of day. The challenge was to embrace the reality of both frames.

Read the rest of the piece on Randy’s Substack, here: https://randyfertel.substack.com/p/a-quantum-experience-of-inauguration