Catch-22 Crisis: The Cotton-tative Loop Of Crazies – Part 5 of 5
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When movies like Catch-22 begin to make sense on more than one levels, it’s time to wake up and look at the dead economy, the cotton-tative easing, the cherry pickers, and the crazy crazy loop.
This article follows on from Part 4: Who, Me?
The fifth episode in this series deals with the aftermath. The aftermath is where everything is judged and made sense of. Where the next moves are decided, the economic crisis notwithstanding, nonsensical as things may be.
See, in the wake of financial mayhem, the rule book is tossed out the window and the world looks a little crazy. With people and businesses getting hit and buckling, and nations reeling and rumbling, one hopes everyone will hold on tight until the madness subsides.
Until it does, things are as follows:
- Those who lost their savings or homes know what it feels like to be knocked out cold, asking for redemption.
- Those in power don’t care, they are out of touch, unaccountable, trying to fix things via quantitative easing.
- Those who do the dirty work, the front and middle men of the operation aka the hitmen and scapegoats, try to clean up the mess, unable to say or do anything of substance.
- Those who see what is going on want to help make things right, but no one is listening to them, so they watch from the sidelines, disheartened and exposed.
- Those who have invested in the folly are desperate for it to continue in order to seal their deals, at whatever cost.
- Those caught in the crossfire are wondering where their virginity has gone and how they ended up so fiddly-diddly crazy.
There you have it, the state of the world in the aftermath of financial mayhem. The loop is complete, we are right back where we started, with the realization that we’re all crazy. We must be. Because we don’t know how to stay alive. That is the secret of life!
Here’s what the state of the world looks like right now. You be the judge whether this is satire or reality.
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