I’ve had time to reconsider my previous post. You might have guessed I would. After all, I was just scratching the surface… to see what might come out… It was not what I intended to say. I had in fact wanted to suggest that the virtual amplification of the

But I bet now you don’t want to. Go viral that is. Of the many ironies amplifying the sense of unreality around global events, the friction of that rub caused by a mismatch in speeds between the old animal and the new social frames of reference of near-as-speed-of-light-as-possible instantaneity

… is underestimated as a political risk. As soon as afraid, for loss of position, simple social advantage, or political status, the most primitive opportunistic intuition sets in–as if the limit condition for responsibility, in individual, social or political dealings, was accident aversion. Safety culture is then symptomatic of a