Q&A: The Man Whose Model Predicted The Mess We’re In

We’ve talked a bit in this newsletter over the months about keeping our eye on the plot and how the mainstream media — of which I am a former card-carrying member — doesn’t always do a good job at keeping the big story front and center. Instead of a consistent focus on theme and an orientation of news stories fleshing it out, the industry is often reactive, playing catch-up with the endless scroll of eye-catching news while missing coverage that actually builds understanding and perspective. This big story to me has always been inequality. As a journalist and observer, it just seemed to hover behind every narrative, invisible but perceptible, an explanation for why normal frustrations and challenges were turning so toxic, nasty, and explosive. It is a source of that bad energy. And dark sorcerers out there are using it to their advantage, instead of ameliorating it. It’s been nearly 15 years since Occupy Wall Street exposed what a potent issue this could be for everyday people and *cou

We’ve talked a bit in this newsletter over the months about keeping our eye on the plot and how the mainstream media — of which I am a former card-carrying member — doesn’t always do a good job at keeping the big story front and center. Instead of a consistent focus on theme and an orientation of news stories fleshing it out, the industry is often reactive, playing catch-up with the endless scroll of eye-catching news while missing coverage that actually builds understanding and perspective. This big story to me has always been inequality. As a journalist and observer, it just seemed to hover