When things begin to fail on a large scale, they don’t do it in a clean or predictable way. Systems don’t politely warn you before they collapse.
They stall, they glitch, they slow down—and then suddenly, they stop. And in that moment, when what people assumed was permanent turns out to be fragile, the real danger begins. Not from the disaster itself, but from the reaction to it.
I do not understand the picture
Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something.
They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.