Take Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher's Times piece on Apple, Shenzhen, and the present and future of manufacturing. Add Ryan Lizza's analysis of Obama's presidential arc via analysis of White House memos. Throw in the Republican primaries, including the debates. Especially the debates. But the ads too. And the buses and the bumper stickers and the ad-hoc one-off talking-head moments they keep getting, and taking, each week.
I know of no response to the aggregated impact of these three recent phenomena but despair.
The Chinese say — or so we're told; where's John Huntsman when you need him? — "May you live in interesting times." And I suppose even car pileups are interesting enough to make us slow down. But this is starting to feel like being strapped into a chair in front of a giant screen filled by hi-def, slow-mo footage of a train smashing inch by inch into the side of a black granite mountain. And the straps are really tight and the train is really, really long.
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