By L. Neil Smith
January 3, 2021 - Sometimes - rarely - we are afforded a lightning flash of clarity before the murky clouds of history again roll back over us. If you want to know the most significant fact of the past two-hundred fifty years, it is this: on October 19, 1781, following their humiliating defeat at the Battle of Yorktown at the hands of Amerikan Revolutionary forces, the surrendering British command ordered their military band to play a song called, The World Turned Upside-Down. (Ironically, given current events, the song was originally a popular protest against Parliament’s puritanical order not to celebrate Christmas in the traditional, boisterous, merry, and colorful English way.)