If there was a black market for systemic risk, we’d make a completely different set of decisions. Instead, we’re each on our own, trying to peek beneath our blindfold to see a sliver of the real world.
Here in the 9th inning, the name of the game is artifice in service of the Big Con. Everywhere we turn, we’re inundated with “information” designed to funnel us into passively compliant complicity, a constant flood of interventions, social engineering, gamed statistics and fake substitutions for what was once authentic: fake facsimiles, synthetic mimicries and an endless array of flimsy facades designed to hide the realities that might awaken us from our uneasy somnambulance.
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