Ennui Becomes Us - We are living in a world of increasing randomness. Competing versions of the truth, whether from YouTube, the blogosphere or the million-channel universe, cause states and the people who live within them to become more polarized in their positions. National and international narratives in turn become more incoherent and more uncompromising. Our current shroud of apathy will only lead to violent extremism and fierce global economic competition

In: The national interest, Heft 105, S. 27-40