his is the sixth installment of a year-long series of letters between myself and Elle Griffin exploring anarchy. You can find previous exchanges here:
Part 1 by Elle Griffin
Part 2 by Peter Clayborne
Part 3 by Elle Griffin
Part 4 by Peter Clayborne
Part 5 by Elle Griffin
Dear Elle,
I’m glad we’re in agreement about the complexity of the human experience, which makes it both difficult and unhelpful to sort ourselves into easy binaries. The rich can be miserable; the poor happy.
There’s this lovely poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that illustrates the paradox of inequality:
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