Prescient:
- divine omniscience
- human anticipation of the course of events : FORESIGHT [Merriam-Webster]
Noted in the second part of Andrew Sullivan’s tripartite diary entry, “America Needs a Miracle,” New York Intelligencer:
And maybe it’s a good moment to see where we are. A man quotes Shakespeare comparing “man, proud man” with “an angry ape.” Any literate person can see that Shakespeare is not talking about race at all; he’s talking (rather presciently) about human beings’ deeper, more primal natures that can obscure our rational thought. But Shapland instantly thought he was being attacked for being black. The distortion and poisoning of the mind here is quite something to behold. And mourn.
