9/21 I should spend much more time and energy on my writing, make these entries count, capture details, tell stories, as these times are so terrible and historic that every possible detail should be preserved for posterity, to help future generations understand what happened, what could happen to even the proudest, and oldest, of democracies. It looks, though, as if knowing this has little to no impact on the future. The future is not made by people who know this.