Reply #105: Devil's Advocate (1997) Prophetic? [View All]

[Urban Prairie]

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

A: Credit Default swaps leading to: Too big to fail

And as we're straddling from one deal to the next, who's got his eye on the planet, *as the air thickens, **the water sours, and ***even the bees' honey takes on the metallic taste of radioactivity? And it just keeps coming, faster and faster. ****There's no chance to think, to prepare; it's buy futures, sell futures, *****when there is no future.


*Climate change

**BP Oil spill

***Fukushima

****Debt Ceiling crisis

*****Default?