Commentary on a Tale of Two Candidates
Commentary on a Tale of Two Candidates By Brian Riley Posted: Monday, July 4, 2016, 7:56 pm PT Small corrections: July 5 and 10, 2016 PDF version Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities , famously begins: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…” At the present time in Deaf society it seems that we are also experiencing a historical moment that could be called both “the best of times” and “the worst of times” – “best,” because of the phenomenal whirlwind of bottom-up, grassroots changes that are slowly building up, both in the Deaf-World, and also all over the globe, in all societies – “worst,” because of the existence of those people who are clinging to the outmoded and outda