NP, Hardly relevant but

[Mark Kohut]

the international leaders' stupidities that led to WW 1 is something 
we have all read about in Pynchon or becasue of Pynchon............
 
Ezra Klein in today's Wash Post, in "too depressing for words" sums
up the current economic stupidites that are ruling...............
 
and asks if future generations---the Trespassers?---will see them as
historians now see the build-up to WW 1....