A scientific research study ought to be
conducted into whatever is able to be known about the lives and the
conditions and pressures they are experiencing immediately prior to
when one of these bankers leaps off a tall building.
Dead, and yellow-ed... |
In a world where the quantity of money
available at a particular interest rate is by command decision
suddenly increased virtually limitlessly for all intents and
purposes, and the time-honoured rational market dynamics of supply
and demand are thus altered irrevocably, changing for all time every
single economic proposition of logic and reason – it ought at least
to be academically studied what, if any, might be the reasons
a banker, of all people, should want to kill themselves.
Certainly, there is the common enough
legend of a Superbowl champion, waking up the next morning, with that
heavy and showy ring on his finger, a new Lamborghini in the garage
downstairs, several empty bottles of champagne beside the feathered
bed, a blonde bimbo's high heels left tossed onto the thick pile
carpet... And then the sports champion thinking to himself: 'is that
all there is?'
What is the everything that
people aspire to having anyway?
"Starry starry night." |
I am a student of popular culture.
Always have been. And somewhat of a fan too. 'Pop' is actually not
quite the same thing as what the masses 'want.' 'Popular' is what is
widely acclaimed; the masses follow what critics say for all their
clamour. The superficiality of real 'pop' is only paper thin, and
common perceptions about it are reflections of the mediocrity of the
mindsets of the viewers, rather than of the art itself.
One ought to try and accept that
today's 'special' banks who have benefitted through the program of
quantitative easing, may have replenished or re-stocked long lines of
previously depleted liquidity (that they were just now freely given),
behind various lists or allocations of assets, let's say, that were
dear to their hearts.
And this means that certain assets will
not just crumble and disappear in spite of their non-performance
frankly, from now on ever after,
in terms of profits and revenue.
But none of it has been what you would
say is art. And so I thought
I might spend a little time on art.
Art endows even some horrible things with beauty although it takes a
certain outlook to be able to see that. The transformative power of
great art is what is needed now to take a fresh look at the world –
but I see only those with very great gifts being able to 'see' their
own individual way out of the morass; the masses will on the whole
never get out now, and in the end few will get out before the tides
of history themselves turn quite dramatically. And that is not
something on the cards very obviously...