Revolutions eliminate the perfect and enable the impossible. They also overwhelm us with cruft. The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind. The simplest plan is to keep it all, to embrace what worked before, and to hide, mostly to hide, from the open vistas of the new postrevolutionary world. It’s so easy to do, and if the world moves slowly enough, you can even do it successfully for a while. No longer. The industrial age, the one that established our schooling, our workday, our economy, and our expectations, is dying. It’s dying faster than most of us expected, and
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