When I sat down at my local coffee shop the other day, I had an epiphany. As I swirled a $3 house blend in a ceramic mug and waited on my friend Eric to arrive, I looked around at the anxious faces in the crowded shop and saw an America in an indeterminate state of being. Battered by a decade of economic and political uncertainty, buffeted by technological and social change, and besieged by an ever-growing list of existential threats, we are like the cat in the famous thought experiment about quantum physics. You know the cat Iβm talking about. SchrΓΆdingerβs cat.