for some of us, it is a mere vetting of the idea that, very few Murican consumer-sheep have the foggiest idea of the complexity of a modern techno-besotted, centralized-Corporate-distribution of monopolized lines of goods. And Today: OF most of THE NECESSARY BASIC COMMODITIES, too.
(Sure looks Good on spreadsheets with Bottom Lines, though. In fair weather.)

Much of fact and fiction re 'the Open Society (and its Enemies' \ufffd) fills the literature of the (first) War Century: but few I've met during half that century - knew how Anything worked, if they could even find the Manual in the packing about to be thrown away.

Well: Katrina is demonstrating How Easily It All Might Not Work.
No ez-electricity: no water, pumps, refrigeration, battery charging, comm ...

(I see: at least a hundred PhDs out of the plethora of owl-entrail readings; maybe just in the second year?) I wonder which of these will connect to the declining competence level of the 'average consumer', in about all things having to do with animal survival. Or how the ability to *walk* a few miles, fits in with 'fitness'.

'Common Sense' Hah! - it's neither. Now more than ever?