Secondly, we are invariably told that the trade deficit merely reflects America's record low savings rate.
Because while human do share a number of features and behaviours with our primate cousins, we are invariably far more complex.
What we are invariably told on these occasions is that the sickening progression of law-breaking in the penalty area has to be treated as a matter of degree.
One of the bedrock rules of political life is never to blame the American people: we are invariably decent, generous, hard-working, wise and, always, better than the people who govern us.
His prose is alive with dichotomies, insults and laugh-aloud jokes, and at the end we are invariably invited to savour the "irony" as the masterminds are shown losing their mojo as the truth slips out of their grasp.
Which is a really fancy way of saying that if we don't choose something to do and set out to do it, what we're invariably left with at the end of winter break, spring break or even summer vacation are memories of too much television and the day someone discovered that with multiple iDevices, everyone could somehow play Minecraft all together.
For instance, some nihilists make the Schopenhauerian claim that our lives lack meaning because we are invariably dissatisfied; either we have not yet obtained what we seek, or we have obtained it and are bored (Martin 1993).
Celebrity is itself a kind of non-reality, at concerts we're invariably in the presence of fame alone rather than another human, we prefer artifice to the truth on stage, etc. Best not to pursue the "does any pop star truly exist to us as anything more than virtual?" line too far.
Whether it is Enron, Fannie and Freddie, or more recently Madoff, we are invariably surprised that we failed to listen to those who sounded an early warning or that we did not pick up on the anomalies and detect the grossly distorted picture.
