Kai Ryssdal

There's a war.

All those things are slowly piling up.

And yet the markets seem, this is pejorative perhaps, but untethered from reality.

What in your mind is going on here?

You describe it as economic blindness in this piece.

I wonder if one might also say willful ignorance.

So there is that line.

I'm going to say it was Hemingway, but somebody else is going to hear it and say, no, no, no, you're attributing it wrong.

It's that whole thing about things happening very slowly and then happening all at once.

And as you point out in the beginning of this piece, this is what happened with COVID, right?

We finally clued in and everything fell apart.

Do you fear that this time?

Not to anthropomorphize this thing at all, but human beings, we beat back the wolf closest to the sled.

And whatever's happening 10 miles down the trail, that's not our problem right now.

This is a very human reaction.

Do you suppose we can get better at this?

Is this a thing we can learn how not to do the next time this happens?

Brian Walsh, Senior Editorial Director at Vox, also works on Future Perfect.

Brian, thanks a lot.

I appreciate your time.