The Most Important Measurement

There should have been an alarm, a siren, something, anything.

Of course, to do that, you’d have to be able to measure the entire population at once, keep tabs on everyone, and then work out how to accurately gauge their moods, which would probably go south in most cases given the new monitoring.

But with some hard work and with the passage of time, coupled with all the new measuring technology they didn’t have back then, I can pinpoint, to the moment, when cynicism finally toppled optimism in the country, when one beat the other.

And it’s surprisingly early, actually…