PANIC STATIONS
No one is in charge
To get to the matter we must get past the message. This gnomic statement means that the news we receive is a sort of shadow play, whose real meaning must be interpreted by the light it excludes.
The panic in the news cycle is related to this spectacle, which is all that stands between a stranded elite and the general realisation that no one is in charge.
The performance goes on, but the script has run out.
