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The “river running red" was a dream of his patients seen by C.G. Jung as a harbinger of the world wars just ahead and the death of Europe. The Irish poet Maud Gonne, Yeats’s muse, saw the same. It seems particularly foreboding today in a river as ancient to human consciousness as the Danube.

At a time when the world is made of paper, we feel particularly vulnerable. Since Copenhagen, maybe, at the U.N. Climate Conference last winter, where the holy ones saw that squiggly thing in the sky as “Eye of God” and, like the river running red, a sign of something. As it happened there below on earth, China in plain sight established a new global paradigm that more or less excluded America. It was, in hindsight, the turning point. The decoupling of the global illusion and the shattering of the global village was always an abstraction, made up by some guy in Canada; not a real place.

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