![]() You don’t care how the garbage is produced and packed away you only care if it’s going to end up in your backyard. ![]() And you certainly wouldn’t want to know all the details of the food supply of the nation-how the cows are eating and how many are being eaten-you only want to be alerted if there’s a spike of mad cow disease. You want to know that Congress just signed a new tax law that affects your family, but the detailed origin of the idea-involving lawyers and corporations and filibusters-isn’t especially important to that new bottom line. You won’t be surprised that none of the details of the activity are listed in the paper after all, you want to know the bottom line. So you pick up a newspaper-not a dense paper like the New York Times but lighter fare such as USA Today. Nor would it be useful, even if you could. You may wish to know what’s happening at any moment in your great nation, but you can’t possibly take in all the information at once. Secretaries field calls, teachers profess, athletes compete, doctors operate, bus drivers navigate. ![]() ![]() All across the great stretches of land, police chase criminals. Factories churn, telecommunication lines buzz with activity, businesses ship products. ![]() Consider the activity that characterizes a nation at any moment. ![]()
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