But it also unwittingly peddled the still pervasive myth that conductors are, in effect, magicians—sorcerers who single-handedly extract waves of finely variegated sound out of thin air.
Our self-imprisonment becomes even more insidious and damaging when the walls are, in fact, fake—when we are controlled by fake news, replicating at terrifying speed, often unwittingly through our own actions.
Unwittingly or not, Mr Noda has thrust mercantilist Japan into a central position on a trade treaty in which free movement of everything except labour is on the table.