Epiphany Today is and always has fascinated me in particular one thing, the big conspiracy about this day to save the country's best kept secret: that the Kings are parents. It is so accepted that this must be kept secret from generation to generation, I think we all remember the shock when she saw a child learn for the first time check (which was not easy.) The reason was that we could not believe how many people were in on it and had not said anything, parents, grandparents, uncles, media, etc. Any society with a tacit agreement to keep this secret and for what? For good reason: to get the unique magic of a day, the illusion of a morning when a child is nervous to open up their gifts checking as the Kings and the pages and the camels have eaten and drunk everything they prepare last night. That illusion deserves to maintain the fiction of this size and scope. I agree with this secret group.
Sometimes I think the same thing when I see the financial markets and their operation. Arbitrary, manipulative, unjust, cruel, relentless, boundless, chaotic. However, despite that have proved they are a great danger to the stability of our lives, seem indisputable, we need them they are the best way to manage an economy. Never mind that companies judged creditworthy to banks that later went bankrupt by his wicked arts, now judge his judgments States and that State costing more billions in debt refinancing which can save impoverishing its officials or its pensioners. That does not count, do not question the system. In fact the system has emerged unscathed from the crisis he provoked. Maintain the fiction, accepted by all, that's how it should be, than any other option would be worse. Mathematical algorithms make buying and selling computers as complex criteria, in the midst of high-frequency global transactions and this also seems normal as the foundation of our economy. Crazy crazy machines with programs moving hundreds of times higher numbers to the real economy and subject, I think, just the laws of chaos theory. As the economy grows purely financial fiction, economics real that should sustain and pay for the damage in case of failure (as now), it becomes increasingly small compared to tumor growth almost from the first.
Future and many more products and do not cover real economy risks for which they were created, but are part of a great "timba" world where one can get rich or go bankrupt betting against indices , trends or weather, without lifting a concrete block, or a liter of fuel, or a garment, ie, doing nothing of anything real, rather than moving figures on a screen.
In sum, we do not question this fiction seems obvious and yet used as gambling chips to our pensions, our mortgages and even our savings, in short, our present and our future, and I wonder why? Is it the one day hope to wake up millionaires as children with a room full of gifts? I do not think that will ever happen to me, maybe they happen to others, who play in that great financial casino, but not me. So I do not want to continue to maintain this collective lie to others who are having their day of Reyes at our expense, it's time to say that "markets are the parents." The collective lie can not go, someone had to say. For that!
0 comments:
Post a Comment