Thanks for re linking us to your excellent essay.
Your Black Swan comments are even more timely today.
Our current president and his fellow fascists in Congress and the media have set off many Black Swan events.
The latest and maybe most dangerous is their Black Swan, Obozo Care, re our nation’s employment and economy.
On January 2, 2014, this Black Swan started stirring and spreading its dark wings over America re lack of jobs, increased job loss and full time jobs becoming part time jobs.
That could be the scary background for another novel.
Something evil this way cometh. There are many possible vectors, but the outcomes will all be the same if the banking/internet/electrical grids go down hard for any period of time.