Is Cher’s 1989 album, Heart Of Stone, the greatest album ever? That’s the question.
I’m joking. It has a couple of okay singles on it, but I’ve yet to see the album in anyone’s Top Fifty.

Cher, in any event is much busier with other things these days. Like this pair of Tweets, which appeared within a few minutes of each other the other day. My good friend Costas found them and challenged me to resolve the global conundrum they seemed to convey:

I looked at Cher’s outpurrings. Then I looked again. And then again some more. I could see she had a point. Or was it two? My contradiction-radar is usually quite finely tuned, but I was struggling. Was it an immigration-and-no-immigration contradiction? Or a climate-change-and-no-climate change problem? Or both? Or neither?

Just like Jesse James, I needed some incubation time.

Was there a way to combine the two contradictions into one vicious cycle? Was it possible to get two pairs of conflicting perceptions into one coherent loop, where each ‘leads to’ link between one perception and the next made logical sense?

It was like doing a jigsaw puzzle when it isn’t clear the pieces are all from the same picture. Plus, half the pieces are missing.

When trying to make sense of a complex problem, there’s no rule to say there has to be one vicious cycle, but if you can find one, you’re well on the way to an opportunity to gain some real insight into what the ‘real’ problem might be. Time to start starting over. Bring on the title track. And some emotional fire…

After all that, there it was. Problem clear. Solution clearer. If I could turn back time…