All around us, still clumsily drifting about in its primeval soup of culture, is another replicator.

And the camels come down again like elevators, we sort of clumsily get off, and they obviously try to take another chunk out of my leg.

Just as Facebook has educated people, clumsily, about privacy controls, so marketers must educate people, ideally more elegantly, about tracking controls. I hope it won t take ten years and a lot of bad publicity for advertisers to figure that out.

Netanyahu s lack of self awareness is perhaps best exemplified in his interactions with Obama. He expects the US to offer Israel security assistance to face the challenge that Iran poses, even as he barges clumsily into Obama s political backyard and forges alliances with his domestic opponents.

Western observers and the bulk of domestic liberals did not give up on Erdoğan until his government s heavy handed tactics during the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in the summer of 2013. He then broke clumsily with the Gülen movement after its acolytes in the judiciary launched a corruption probe against him and his inner circle.