“Digby is a phenomenon. That’s what’s happening.” “Why?” Tom asked with a befuddled look on his face. “These kinds of things are always hard to understand, Tom, but I’ve seen it many times before—the public latches onto something innocuous and suddenly it’s relevant. There is a circular logic that develops: It’s relevant because so many people are interested in it, and so many people are interested in it because it’s relevant. It’s some kind of group dynamic where the group interest creates relevance that didn’t previously exists, relevance with no basis in reality. There isn’t a logical
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