Redux - Ep. 29: Insensibility of Danger

Between the general sense of disgust with about 50% of my fellow Americans, and unhappiness that the Fourth Turning is, in fact, not yet over, I haven't been in much of a way to do a new episode.  So here's a redux from a few years back,    Wherein a random tweet brings up a quote from Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice, a romantic comedy about dealing with the dangers and temptations of a Crisis period and still liking yourself later.   This is the tweet that started me on this one 6 years ago or thereabouts.  https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1022955880197836802 Turns out that the issue at hand in that case is tarriffs. The more things change, the more they stay the same Considering it's a story about women trying to find husbands, the word Danger is used remarkably often - twenty times over the course of the novel. For comparison - amazing what a simple word count can help you see -  the word Marriage is used 67 times, Happiness 74 times, Joy 42 times, Silly 12, Evil 22 times, pounds 24. (As I like to say, the importance of arithmetic in history is widely understated.) Danger, then,  is used almost as often as pounds, the standard by which most of the potential husbands are measured.