The old adage goes something like "may you live in interesting times"... well, at least we've got that doing for us. I don't know about you, but I'm ready for boring times. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see that type of phenomena any time in the near future. But navigating these *interesting* moments that keep coming at us is often treacherous. Sometimes you need to consult one of the deep thinkers of our time to try to put things in perspective. We'll do that today with the blogger known as Driftglass. Let's see if he can make any more sense out of this mess that is our world than I can...