The wandering sage observes that humans create tribal units by a process of valuing, by labeling as good or as evil – behaviors, practices, forms of life, etc., etc..

Much that passed for good with one people
was regarded with scorn and contempt by another:
thus I found it.

Much found I here called bad,
which was there decked with purple honors.

Never did the one neighbor understand the other:
ever did his soul marvel
at his neighbor’s
delusion and wickedness.

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by Thomas Common, The Thousand and One Goals No. 15

This from Tuesday’s New York Times:

In the Oval Office, El Salvador’s president and Trump said they would not return a man wrongly deported to a notorious prison.

The meeting made clear that the White House had no intention of retrieving the man, despite a Supreme Court order.

Stephen Miller, a top Trump adviser, suddenly declared the man’s deportation was not a mistake. “This was the right person sent to the right place,” he said. Read how the White House has twisted facts.

Trump is using the Oval Office as a performance space. It’s a gilded set, Shawn McCreesh writes.

Hail Caesar…