by Doug “Uncola” Lynn
The Burning Platform
Janus is an ancient Roman, a composite god who is associated with doorways, beginnings, and transitions. A usually two-faced god, he looks to both the future and the past at the same time, embodying a binary. – Source
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers. – Thomas Pynchon, “Gravity’s Rainbow” (1973)
Two years ago, also during the month of Janus, I wrote a speculative article on Trump as two faces on the same coin and, specifically, considered the president as the “most interesting man in the world”: an enigmatic “ringleader”, of sorts, who always keeps us guessing between transitional episodes: