“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
President elect Franklin D. Roosevelt said that 76 years and two months ago.
He was eloquent in his attempt to deliver on the promise that the American people could pull out of the depths of the economic troubles that they then faced.
It’s weird.
I read the text of that speech and I felt like any minute now I could be hearing it being said for real by President Obama as it poured out of the clock radio beside my bed while I sipped this morning’s coffee.
It’s that relevant.
William Shakespeare made that observation about the connection between the mental state and the rate at which we are able to function some 400 years ago.