TOM EATON: We must start thinking about the house that only we can build
We can’t be sure we want democracy to survive 2024 as a system giving criminals better chances than matriculants
07 March 2023 - 05:00
Shot down over North Vietnam in 1965 and held captive by the Viet Cong, US fighter pilot Bob Shumaker spent eight years and one day building a house in his mind.
A psychologist might suggest that Shumaker was building a place in which he could escape the realities of life in the notorious prison known as the Hanoi Hilton. It would also have been a highly efficient way to keep his faculties intact...
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