“The subtlety of it is pretty insidious. Like some kind of distributed long con, played out over and over, in the midst of so many millions of other simultaneous ones.”
A riddle from my systems thinking teachers: A pond starts out with a single lily pad. The lily pads double each day. If, on the 30th of the month the pond is completely covered with lily pads, on what day is it half-way covered?
Extra credit: what does this have to do with our current situation?