“Everything—capitalism, the economy, politics, the internet, supply chains—has become a terrifying, complicated mess that we can’t understand. But we can understand a ship blocking a canal.”
– Sci-fi writer
Tim Maughan, on our fascination with the
Ever Given grinding world trade to a halt. “It’s a relief to be able to point at something and know that it’s wrong,“ writes Maughan. “It’s a huge, dumb, obvious object wedged into a place it shouldn’t be.”
