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Front page, The New York Times<\/em>, Sunday, May 24, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is the Memorial Day weekend in the US.<\/p>\n It falls on the last Monday of May every year and honors those who died in war serving with the US.<\/p>\n For years, as a matter of practice, it has also been a day when family and friends who have passed away are also remembered.<\/p>\n And in this year particularly, it honors those who have died in the Coronavirus pandemic in the US, where the worst death toll in the world so far has occurred.<\/p>\n We had planned a longer piece on the national and global short-term and long-term fallout from the pandemic, the false choice between health and the economy based on systems that died some time ago and will not be propped up much longer, and the increasingly apparent likelihood that the final resistance to change, accompanied by a last head fake that it can be avoided, will lead to far greater chaos and suffering before the ultimate bottom is hit.<\/p>\n However, this will wait a bit more, as it will continue to unfold in any event.<\/p>\n For today, the cover of the Sunday New York Times has stolen the show once again.<\/p>\n And it requires undivided reverence.<\/p>\n It is both paean and dirge, to the first one hundred thousand dead from the pandemic in the US alone, “Remembering the Nearly 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in America<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Before letting it tell its own story without further comment, we do need to acknowledge the evolving art form the cover of the Sunday Times is becoming. The following story behind the front page of the Times does this as well. But we need to salute the Times in this age of radically changing journalism as it adapts brilliantly to this needed modality to bring the reader in deeper–at first sight. Our credentials in this arena over decades is not a focus of interest here, except to underline the credibility of our observation of the accomplishment of the Times, and its importance.<\/p>\n After the following lead article, we have picked one other from today’s paper in The Sunday Review, “Crumbs for the Hungry but Windfalls for the Rich<\/a>“, by opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof, the most emailed as we write, the importance of which cannot be overstated. It outlines, in the clearest possible terms, what has gone wrong, once again, in the face of this crisis–and what must go right for our survival and global survival.<\/p>\n This is the 75th Memorial Day since VE Day, Victory in Europe over the Nazis on May 8. The end of civilization was averted and enormous possibilities of equality were created. After that promise was delivered in many ways, it was reneged on. For all its faults though, the international order was a critical precondition for any chance of stability, preventing nuclear war during the Cold War, preventing disease, addressing hunger, protecting children, bringing justice to crimes against humanity, increasing the odds for peace and prosperity, led by the US (which has also caused or been complicit with human rights atrocities itself at times and increasing inequality over the past few decades as we’ve continuously pointed out–but was still in an unmatched position, if it reformed itself, to lead to a more equal and sustainable future on the planet), which it has virtually abandoned. It may have one last chance. But it will not be a return to normal–an unsustainable inequality in providing basic needs and halfway measures on human rights starting with nurturing children–unless as a final drug-addicted delusion before a far worse crash. Can we form a clear-eyed majority, with heart, dedicated to basic needs and rights for all on a sustainable planet, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt mustered in fighting the Great Depression (in large part, with some glaring shortcomings, as noted before), and as the reason for defeating fascism 75 year ago? Millions died for this cause then, millions have since, and millions more may now and in the near future. We have no Roosevelt, no Lincoln, leading us. Not even a lesser light operating with a modicum of functional normalcy.<\/p>\n Cohesive and functional social coordination and cooperation is not possible without this.\u00a0So the outcome of what comes next is up to each and every one of us.<\/p>\n As we have written for some time, civilization has increasingly been heading to the bottom of the behavioral sink for a long time. Children are expected to learn that freedom doesn’t exist without responsibility. Many adults have properly and bravely modeled this behavior. Yet, too many have modeled a kind of narcissistic psychosis as if reality didn’t exist, risking the lives of others and the only sustainable route to an economic future. These personality disorders cross ideological lines. And for too many around the world, survival and human rights have forced the truly desperate back on the streets–the ones who were not allowed healthy lockdown or provided for in what they needed–and were already fighting on the streets for basic equality long before the pandemic began.<\/p>\n Again, we owe the following our reverence.<\/p>\n Then our action.<\/p>\n “The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names”<\/a><\/p>\n By John Grippe,\u00a0<\/span>Times Insider, The New York Times, Sunday, May 24, 2020<\/p>\n Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a>\u9605\u8bfb\u7b80\u4f53\u4e2d\u6587\u7248<\/a>\u95b1\u8b80\u7e41\u9ad4\u4e2d\u6587\u7248<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A presentation of obituaries and death notices from newspapers around the country tries to frame incalculable loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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