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The Care of Time

July 8, 2010 - 4:53 am - by Richard Fernandez
oMan
2010-07-08 10:33:00

“Crush depth” and related metaphors in your post, W, add to its essential awesomeness. The analogy between economies and machines that have kinetic energy/momentum and the means to regain it, is true. And scary. We’re near the design limits. And because, in a society or an economy there is no formal clear limit, no alarm bell, we don’t know how near we are; or whether we’re already past it.