"national conversation"

I drive the beltline most days after work and all this week have been thinking about the unfortunate circumstances that would prompt us to fly flags at half mast this week.

Violence begets violence (whether acted, demonstrated, experienced, viewed, encouraged, scoffed, humorized, entertainmentized, fictionalized, gamed, spoken, or even hinted).

So we're having another "national conversation" but I doubt anything will change in our overall trajectory.

So I went back at night and made this image. Americans are having an important but possibly ineffectual "national conversation" about vitriolic speech, which is not very likely to go on the decline any time soon.

I shot this for 13 seconds at f/22 at ISO 200 on Jan 12. It was a half moon. I cleaned up a little distracting lens flare in Lightroom. I have several images of just the flag and moon, but chose this image with the lights included, to add the sense of "conversation" and of a revealing light being shed upon what is happening in the USA on political, social, and cultural fronts.