Take notes. The question seems to be: How do we fight back. The alternative torture is to tie ourselves down to any railroad tracks. Oh, we picked #2 refrigerator. Just freeze us for four years. It doesn’t work. Brooks is sensibly telling us to move forward but carefully, and (this is not a criticism), to absorb the context of being a gentleman. It makes sense, but to chaos, it’s a more inherent threat, because chaos has a track record of zero. I watched this reality show: It’s the Chaos Theory Show And We Sell Refrigerators. No one gets off the island. You chose the wrong refrigerator. Again. This is fighting back. Begin with journalism. Or begin with increased engagement. But you can’t have both. Try another way. Your glacial move to the Internet has so far been a disaster. To wit: Social Media. Is now the news. Tech has the razzle dazzle. It’s also overwhelming. What I so get about Brooks is the Steady As It Goes. As a sailor, I would seldom go to chaos. Entropy staring at a screen all day, coming home, coming home to what. Brooks is right, and I so hear the word bubble. But a bubble will protect you some of the time. They’re expensive to maintain. The American Adventure is over. It was rotten at the core and constructed by institutions whose allegiance is to the bubble. Often (always), they just pop. Someone stuck a pin in it. Brooks pushes away from bubbles and discovers Main Street. What we both don’t want to discover is that the core is holding nothing up.