He was primed for a spectacle because this is the culture we have wrought, one in which we are perpetually ready to bear witness even if we do not know, in advance, what we will bear witness to.
Even the "invention of agriculture" -- perhaps the most far-reaching change to this planet we've wrought -- is something we could never have pulled off without the active participation of other species, the ones that seized the new evolutionary opportunity when it presented itself.
We have the government we have wrought, and to my estimation, are showing no sign of doing better in this last year's worth of evidence save this, we are engaged in government on a scale not seen since the sixties.
Like T.S. Eliot, we are beginning to ask ourselves, "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?" We sense an insufficiency in what we have wrought and wonder, like Eliot, if, "the cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust".
Or are we too enamored with what we have wrought to cut out the rot that weakens it?
The truth, and perhaps the key to future peaceful negotiations, is that we are not willing to face what we have wrought when it comes to war.
When you think about the millions of strange things we have wrought over the centuries, it is a mystery why we have such inadequate forms of classification to break them all down.
"But the transformation that we have wrought is a transformation of convenience, not of conviction, and we have to fight and fight and fight".
It is delusional to think we can build walls or make laws against the changes we have wrought.
For all the progress we've made in the last 30 years, we are still a long way from getting the most out of what we have wrought.
