The Delicate Prey
Pakistan is very far away. It's far enough away that I have no particular right to comment on events there, express meaningless sympathy for its people, analyze the impact of those events either within that nation or in the context of world politics, predict the future based on any such analysis, or in any way condemn, praise, scold, eulogize, reprimand or second-guess anyone involved in or proximate to those events. It's very far. There's no blood on me, not literally anyway, and there isn't a burning car in sight.
There isn't any progress in human affairs, there is only order and chaos, The more elaborate the order, the more energy it takes to maintain that order. But, as Markowitz observed, chaos is always in the interstices. Chaos broke out and set about dismantling the order that men had built up. There was never any doubt that it would. The only question was, where, when, how.
