We have trusted that smart scientists, engineers and economists do understand the interconnectedness of systems, that they comprehend the dangers of collapse and have taken all the necessary steps to protect us.
But should we, as a matter of policy, and moral decency, learn to think andcomprehend that our actions in one part of the world could very well come back to hurt us, or, as Paul would say, blow back in our face?
But the achievement did not start to sink until the medal ceremony and then all the news conferences that followed and we couldn't comprehend that more than six million people had stayed up in Britain after midnight to watch us.