Over my ‘morning’ coffee (read: early afternoon, first meal of the day) I just read Russell Davies‘ latest post. The opening paragraph is

The best things in Neal Stephenson’s Reamde are the aesthetic coalitions that emerge in his virtual world “The Forces Of Brightness” and “The Earthtone Coalition”. As soon as you read that, you see those opposing tendencies everywhere.

No sooner did I read this but I looked up at the wall

Opposing tendencies everywhere…