Capitalism_Cataclysm, the Anniversary edition

September 14, 2009


“One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest . . . goose swoops down and plucks you out”    The role of R.P. McMurphy, from Chief's imagination ,  ”...Cuckoo’s Nest”, the book.



Where’s our McMurphy when we need him? 

Who’s going to swoop down and save us from this economic, political and social asylum we find ourselves still mired in, one year after the reveal of Capitalism_Cataclysm, ver 2.2?   According to a variety of ‘experts’ inside the asylum, not only don’t they know who McMurphy *is*, most don’t believe he even exists.    Uh-oh.

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that no one really knows what to do as the old standard economic and financial models seem incapable of producing The Solution.  In the mean time, the banks are back to business as usual according to the recent NY Times article, apparently covering their eyes and ears as they sprint past the graveyard , now rife with zombie banks and ghosts of Lehmans Past.  The moral?  “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”  
Hegel be damned.

Looking from outside the asylum, we can no longer distinguish between the inmates and the staff.   Nurse Ratched’s banks keeps doing the same things, somehow expecting different results.  She continues to blame and punish the sub-primer inmates for creating their own problems, pushing them deeper into despair while further eroding her own credibility and trust.  And her own odds of survival.   Even the Acutes know crazy when they see it….

So how do we cure her?  Lobotomy?  No, too extreme; could no longer function; chaos.
Paxil?  Doubtful…  Many side effects and inter-action concerns...cure as bad as the disease.

What then, you ask? 

All she needs is one Dose.  With a proven 98% cure rate, one shot removes blind arrogance and the false sense of entitlement that invariably lead to self-destruction in this form of psychosis.

I. Diogenes

Next:   A Dose of Reality