I do know, though, that whatever is the outcome for us, I'm uncomfortable to find I live in a society that blithely, secretly and routinely makes a different choice.
If I weren't involved in following and analyzing politics in California, I could easily be blithely unaware of the meme that I live in a "failed state".
i. Have to question the legitimacy of your claim to be "a good bunch" when you blithely seem to be charging someone to live under your stairs like some twisted and mangled evil twin, feeding on crusts and rat bones, their eyes bulging and accustomed to the dark, their hair lank and thin.
Fallout is an imperative reminder of the ever-present danger under which we live and which most of us blithely ignore".
In your 20s, there's one at your very first job, in your circle of friends (the drama queen, who always has a more interesting, exciting and adventurous life than yours and whom you live through vicariously), and who may even blithely sleep with your boyfriend under the guise of "doing you a favor".
It is a Museum of Torture, and, instead of recoiling, the wanderer blithely declares that it's the kind of place she'd like to live in.
We may blithely use the language of honesty as a moral imperative but few people live up to the high-minded nature of that calling.
It is blithely asserted, for instance, that their hunger for dystopian fiction is whetted by having to live in a bleak world under the pitiless authority of adults.
Never mind that I live among Masters of the Universe (bad movie) who trade millions of dollars as blithely as if they were exchanging baseball cards.
So while most of us think we know what digital disruption means because we live digital lives and we've read all about disruption, most of us -- especially those of us at the top of the organization -- are blithely unaware of just how powerful digital disruption is and how hard it will be to compete with it.
