Electronic Vulnerabilities Cyberwar would not be as lethal as atomic war, of course, nor as visibly dramatic.
"In few places," Issenberg writes, "are the complex dynamics of globalization revealed as visibly as in the tuna's journey from the sea to the sushi bar".
At the Irish National Stud at Kildare the Queen was applauded as, visibly relaxed and smiling broadly, she was introduced to jockeys, trainers, farriers and apprentices and shown racehorses.
"Homelessness has been an issue, but has not shown up as visibly as it is now" in suburbia, said Lawrence Levy, executive director of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, on Long Island.
"Black Don't Crack" is the title of a funny song she wrote with Marc Shaiman that refers to the long line of African-American stars from Eartha Kitt to Halle Berry to the "263-year-old" Tina Turner, whose faces don't age as visibly as those of Caucasian women.
To battle those forces as visibly as Weiner does is not just to tell a fairy-tale story but also to try to live one: to insist on moving from the margin to the center, and to demand a happy ending of one's own.
