Dear Humans,

I’m a big fan of flags. I fly one outside of my house. I collect them. I love to look at them, learn about them, and think about them. And I think I like them because they’re kind of a problem.

They’re a problem because they try to use a few simple colors and symbols to represent a nation’s identity–something that people have been battling over since the country’s start and will continue to after it’s gone. Like all symbols, they mean different things to different people, and we can’t always put that meaning into words. We just feel it in our guts.

And that’s the kind of problem that doesn’t have a solution; it can only be lived with.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt