It’s always new, regenerating itself each day, reforming around yesterday’s foibles and fortes incorporating them into the warp and weave of our essence, changing the rules we’ve relied on. Sometimes a startling stroke of morality makes it better, more often a disorienting disaster resets our foundation, sinking it into places we once feared, but will come to accept as the way things are. Trump and his courtiers, Putin and his oligarchs, Netanyahu and his Zionists make the unacceptable the new normal.