What Are The Characteristics Of The Diabolic? Anything That Tears Asunder, Pits people against one another: Fulton Sheen Is

“I don’t always agree with myself.”

—Marshall MacLuhan

This morning I posted this piece, and I have since gotten an answer, or rejoinder to my own question; I’m writing it now even though I’ve got a bus to catch.

Thanks in part to a second listening to a Fulton Sheen sermon, posted below, I now see that “functional despair” is a state of being that may b…