What I love about this essay is how it speaks to how deeply entwined modern life is with other people, other countries, other processes ...
... and for "entwined" we can substitute "dependent on", which is a short hop to "vulnerable to"
the US is currently led by a regime that is snarlingly insistent that it is vulnerable to no-one and nothing -- quite the opposite, everything is vulnerable to it
Clive Thompson
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