On Saturday, instead of imploding and turning inward and violent among themselves, as they have been doing for the past decade, the youths exploded.
In the cities, I was also kind of amazed (as I've been in western cities) by how societies with such intense, juxtaposed inequality manage to cohere instead of imploding.
American English's genius lies in its ability to accommodate such quantum logic -- to exist in two places or forms simultaneously -- and, instead of imploding, actually thrive and grow.
Instead of imploding, he fends off one assault after another, some self-induced, as when his publisher (Henrik Mestad) solemnly suggests that Erik change his imposingly titled novel, "Prosopopoeia," to "Prozac-and-Pee".
But instead of a lucid narrative explaining what happened when the economy imploded in 2008, why, and who was to blame, the report is a confusing and contradictory mess, part rehash, part mishmash, as impenetrable as the collateralized debt obligations at the core of the crisis.
But instead of consistency, these use ignorance.
But instead of fear we seem complacent.
But instead of scoring we conceded.
