What good is a cosmology if we cannot live happily in that world?

Unlucky mortals! O deplorable earth! All humanity huddled in fear! The endless subject of useless pain! Come philosophers who cry, “All is well,” And contemplate the ruins of this world.
— Voltaire, Poem on the Lisbon Disaster

Protestor on a CTA platform

Protestor on Lake Shore Drive

Protestor in the Loop

Protestors face off with Police

Police line up on Lake Shore Drive

Protestor walks with a sign

Protestor walks with a sign

Protestors face off with Police

Protestor on the frontlines

Man rides his horse down Wabash

Looted storefront

Police and cavalry

Looters climb through a broken window

Police line in front of lifted bridge

Blaze in downtown

Protestors march in Bronzeville

Protestors march in Bronzeville

State police

Protestors flip off a police helicopter

Protestors march in Hyde Park

Protestors march in Hyde Park

Protestors march in Hyde Park

Girls join into the protest from their car

Protestors march in Hyde Park

Protestors jump a median on Lake Shore Drive

Protestors kneel on Lake Shore Drive