Conversation

On the radio, Jeremy Bowen, describing where Iran’s theocracy seems to be at, reached for the well-known quote from Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises’:

“‘How did you go bankrupt?’ Bill asked. ‘Two ways’, Mike said. ‘Gradually and then suddenly’.”

Which is the nature of power relationships. Whenever there is a trajectory of extraction there’s a threshold beyond which it cannot stand up.

Much of our era is in the ‘gradually’ phase with ‘suddenly’ inching ever closer…