Great and Terrible things

[wasellajam]

@busker - Hope that was meant to be "top" 

Seriously, though, China has most of the problems you ascribe to the US (especially aging population) but its fundamentalism is a bit different.  It's not tortoise v. hare but panda v. badger and I'm not sure which is which.

I am sometimes amazed by how very sensible one can be on many subjects while shoehorning that virtue into a blindered view of other matters - or even the detail or background of those.  Wish I could see the blinders when looking in the mirror, but it's difficult.  (And has anyone these days seen a horse wearing blinders?  Can the term continue to exist with no real-world referent?)  The real world is seamless, but our perception of it is a mosaic, at best.

Racehorses still use blinders, they call them blinkers now.