Breakfast Club: July 6, 2020

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The view from Shepherd Canyon.

Good morning! 

Welcome back to Breakfast Club, your (bi)weekly dose of outdoor content.  I hope you are well and safe.

The resurgence of coronavirus cases reminds me of a comment made in the late seventeenth century by the English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes. 

Looking back on the years of the English civil war in the 1640s, Hobbes described them as "the highest of times," a shocking period "of all kinds of injustice and of all kinds of folly."

I'm similarly astonished at our current mess. To be in the United States right now is to watch a shipwreck of ruinous self-conceit, crashing upon the twin shoals of incompetence and magical thinking that define our national response to the coronavirus.

At the same time, change is in the air. A new generation of political activists have gained traction, attention, and power to address deep structural racial and economic problems amid the current upheaval. 

This …