Are you getting the feeling we may have reached that part of the road where all the cans have accumulated? Or is this just an age thing? Just as our bones become more brittle with age, perhaps our brains can’t drum up the flexibility needed to imagine our way out of the current mess. Perhaps younger, more agile brains can see a solution that doesn’t involve more kicking of cans down the road.

Because right now it does look as though we might be in a cul-de-sac, knee-deep in cans that have been kicked down the road at some stage during the past several decades...

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