We tend to be attuned to 1-2 aspects of a society — economy, entrepreneurial vitality, public civility, violence, courts, legislation, wars, healthcare, immigration, environment, corruption, minorities — that most interest us and assume if our bits is going well, things are fine.
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The thing is, a society exists as the couplings of these things with various sorts of hedging/compensating dynamics keeping the assemblage in homeostatic equilibrium. Systemic risk lies in the potential for correlated worsening of ALL these things
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Replying to @vgr
Not to be a massive localism bore. But small town mentality does mean that when you ask the person who lives next to you 'How's it going' they will probably say 'shit'
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Replying to @thejaymo
Ah but it is also likely to actually be shitty most of the time 
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