There’s a train speeding toward me. Toward all of us, actually. I’m aware of the train. A number of people are. Far more people aren’t. But it is coming, regardless of awareness or non-awareness.
I can see it coming. So how do I deal with this approaching train? I have a comfortable chair and a computer and I sit in the middle of the tracks with a cup of coffee and I read about the speeding train.
There’s lots to read about the speeding train. I read reports from people who also know about the speeding train. They like to write about it. And go to meetings and conferences about it. They even write books about it that are purchased by other people who also know the train is coming.
I enjoy reading these reports. There are reports from people who see it speeding toward us and like to describe how the train looks, its size, its strength. Others conduct informed—and not so informed—discussions on the speed of the train and whether or not it’s accelerating, slowing down or simply going at a steady rate, and when it might be expected to arrive.
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