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With one foot in either place, we’re pulled between the impish naivete of childhood — when the future seemed vast and bright — and the doldrums of adulthood.

Cynicism is also accompanied by naivete in Washington, where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. — having watched his Republican colleagues deny the outcome of an election and defend the man who encouraged a mob to march on the U.S.

Indeed, Bailey looks back at “That’s the Way of the World” as an album about “the loss of �Բ��������é” experienced by the band’s members, all of whom were in their early 20s at the time except for Maurice White, who was a decade older.

My own naivete was trying to find the right way to tell the story.

In Thomas’ telling, Condon was part of a cabal of liberal, technocratic elites who ran the inner workings of the federal government and, out of naivete or treachery, were now fatally undermining their country in the face of the Soviet threat.