After Random Stabbings in Rotterdam, a Comic Opera Ensues

<![CDATA[Centuries from now, historians will look back at the first quarter of the twenty-first century and shake their heads in wonder. “This was an age,” they will say, “when people were at war with reality. They actually thought that if they believed fervently enough in falsehoods, their cherished untruths would become true. They thought that if everyone was forced to play along, men could become women. They thought that if they refused to accept unwanted realities, those realities would disappear.” An incident on the venerable Erasmus Bridge in the Netherlands’ old port city of Rotterdam late Thursday night bears that out.]]>