We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

