Wondering about losing your marbles is a punishing exercise, in my experience, largely because whenever I suggest it’s happening to me, some member of my family tends to opine that I may have had a marble deficit to start with — adding, offensively, that they see no concrete evidence that the overall number has reduced that much.
On the other hand, virtually every day at the moment, some world leader does something or says something that is so barking, I find myself wondering (a) if it’s just me who hears the woof, and (b) if everybody else hears it too, how are we moving right along as if things were normal and just complaining about the weather?
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