That applies whether you think the current troubles are just a blip or a foretaste of the job losses that technological changes are bringing to the industry, she said.

According to the Olympic Studies Center, at this point “they play a double role: In addition to announcing the Games, they provide a foretaste of their visual identity.”

He warned that religious discrimination of the kind he saw in the Finney case “may spread and may be a foretaste of things to come.”

“But if this a foretaste of the feast to come, then we’re in massive trouble.”

Summer 2023 has been a fascinating foretaste of a future under a changing climate.