Went to the park last night and the lake smelled like eggs, so this is why?

I kind of got both that impression and its exact opposite, like the whole paragraph feels like a long wink and a nudge, like the author would like to say “maybe fixating on ‘line go up’ distracts you from all that is good in life” but that would negate The Economist’s entire raison d’être.

It’s like Schrodinger’s argument.