By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
April 20, 2026
Fear moves fast enough to get inside our OODA loop-observe, orient, decide, act-so we decide and act only after the damage has been done.
The dynamics discussed here have nothing to do with the headlines of the past few weeks or months, or with geopolitics or stock market gyrations. These dynamics have been at work for years or decades, and now the banquet of consequences is finally being served, and we each get a seat whether we want one or not.