You had better shutter up and batten down the hatches because the storm is about to intervene. In the future one will look back and say, "how could people have been so stupid"? That's the weakly told truth of the '29 crash. It was caused by public greed and the public could never admit that so they blamed it on all manner of extraneous factors. The public never wanted to admit how stupid they had become by their delusions of wealth and power. They reaped what they had sewn. Decades later you would hear people say, "how could they become so stupid? We would never do that in this enlightened modern era. Besides we have the intellectuals, the FED, and lots of smart guys, benevolent guys, wise guys, scientists, so it couldn't happen again." Lo and behold here we are just like '29 and nothing has changed. I submit that it isn't possible for people to learn anything from history and anything contrary to their own worst interest.
"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I, do not so much as dare? Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike. And all the time, lo! that smiling sky, and this unsounded sea! Look! see yon Albacore! who put it into him to chase and fang that flying-fish? Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; |
