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Powell has taught us not to fear the Inversion. With that out of the way, once we marshal our considerable powers of inattention and obliviousness on a tiny monkey-tihs brown speck on a chart we only see occasionally if we happen to be visiting on a random day in the life of the Solar System in these exclusive pages buried in sub-strata of ever growing digital stacks, then sure, we can learn not to fear said speck. Perhaps it is not unlike the process by which we stop fearing viruses. We know they are there. We know they can kill us. But, the sooner we 'moderns' learn to take a few minimal precautions (potty training for life), the sooner we forget about them, and the sooner we get on with the business of living blissfully unaware. Fear is as physiologically exhausting as it is psychologically exhausting. ... I must be right because I just forget why I'm writing this ...?

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