One of my favorite Hunter S. Thompson quotes comes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
As Walter Russell Mead writes on his blog, "Global Weirding" is the new hot trend in climate scares and this concept has great promise for the larger world of politics.
Writes Mead,
"Politics, economics, international relations, religion: everything in our world is getting weirder, and the weirding is happening faster all the time."
On Europe,
"Look, for example, at Europe. Not since the 1930s has the incompetence, incapacity and selfish shortsightedness of Europe’s governing class been so shockingly on display."
On Economics,
"Right now both the real economy and the financial markets are changing so rapidly that nobody really understands how all the pieces fit together."
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