Life and Legacy
As I'm reading the final chapters of East of Eden⤴︎ by John Steinbeck the question of legacy comes to the front. "...was he loved or was he hated? Is his death felt as a loss or does a kind of joy come over it?"
I think of the recent passing of Jimmy Carter. I was two years too young to vote for him in 197650ya but I admired him and I have always felt that his fatal flaw as a president was trying to tell the American people truths they didn't want to hear.
He was a thoughtful man whose legacy will be a far cry from that of our current president, an immature, cruel, and vindictive narcissist.
The irony is, all of Trump's motivations and attention seeking could be explained by a pathological need to define his legacy. And every attempt he makes to control it, pushes it further into the realm villainy.