"To the rescue! Avenge the Machine! Avenge the Machine!"
-The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
So often it isn't easy to accept change. So it may be with the overall re-structuring of economic systems that had long served so well, but no longer. These systems will not recover now, or possibly ever.
And from the awakening of the long denial of this ending, so springs human desperation and frantic discourse. Religious beliefs substitute for long-lost reason, some of these beliefs so fairy tale that their origins can only be in make-believe. But this is easier to accept than real change.
As the old Chinese blessing (and curse) goes, "May you live in interesting times."
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