“Turning and turning, in the widening gyre/the falcon cannot hear the falconer/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world/the blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere/the ceremony of innocence is drowned/The best lack all conviction/while the worst/are full of passionate intensity. (W.B. Yeats “The Second Coming”, 1919) Published in 1920, this … Continue reading The Center Cannot Hold