Critics routinely suppose that a sense of wonder informs science fiction, and yet how rarely is any sense of joy present there.
For example, electric companies are supposed to routinely analyze anticipated conditions for the next day.
Children are supposed to routinely receive the first dose of measles vaccination at 12 months and the second dose at 4 to 6 years old.
During our Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was routinely derided for his supposed military blundering, as was his demonically energetic secretary of war, Edwin Stanton.
And yet Republicans routinely deny this, citing supposed uncertainty over the details as reason not to take action on reducing emissions or pursuing alternative energy more aggressively.
Under New York City transit procedures, all signal and switch inspections are supposed to be routinely double-checked by supervisors.
Glamorised beyond parody in TV dramas such as Spooks, the spying agencies' uncheckable pronouncements about their exploits and supposed triumphs are routinely relayed by the media as fact.
In many ways investors are reacting rationally to the fact that critical information about the financial markets the sort of information that New Deal-originated regulatory architecture was supposed to make routinely transparent is simply not available.
EVEN those who are routinely cynical about Hong Kong's supposed autonomy from China were surprised this week when officials at Hong Kong's airport refused entry to a Chinese-born American citizen and put him on the next flight out.
In many ways investors are reacting rationally to the fact that critical information about the financial markets--the sort of information that New Deal-originated regulatory architecture was supposed to make routinely transparent--is simply not available.
