We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.