Camouflage gear seems to be in fashion. This is what I am learning from the tourist crowds in Motovun, I must add. I usually notice camouflage patterns on men, and especially on those past their prime who aspire to looking tough, but I occasionally see them on women, as well. For instance, yesterday I saw a woman in her late forties or early fifties wearing camouflage pants. Well, pants with one of many camouflage patterns. Judging by their tightness, she is doing her best to push the encroaching menopause out of her mind. But I was surprised to see a camouflage jacket on a boy of about five or six earlier today. I saw him and his parents from afar, and so I could not judge where they were coming from, but they appeared to be from Northwestern Europe. One way or another, the jacket must be to the little boy’s liking. Amazingly, someone is making such jackets for kids his age, as well. Which started me thinking about the new fashion at long last. Is this yet another example of collective human intelligence that goes well beyond individual intelligence? Are people preparing for the imminent future without even being aware of their preparations? Still more, are they eager to endow the pending quagmire with appeal and maybe even beauty? One way or another, questions like these are best left unanswered.