Cryptic Negativity - Death on the installment plan - What else is the future but paying off mortgages and life insurance?
The secret collective longing for a market crash, i.e. a world war, remains a last, authentic expression of the longing to make a clean sweep, to undergo an adventure and then start all over.
Something must be built up before it can be taken apart, thus the orientation to the past. The nice thing about this model is its youthful elan in believing that the future can be predicted. That is the game Soros plays. His theory of reflectivity is based on a solid foundation of European negativity. This is why he can stay "ahead of the wave" while legions of market analysts get caught in their own sales speeches, whose nonsense they can never understand, since belief in their spiels is precisely the product they're selling.
And non-monetary negativity, where is that? Who can enjoy the certainty of decline, and benefit from it? What a riddle!
But one thing is sure: there will always be enough that can be destroyed. "As long as there is death, there is hope."
The future of thinking, the development of forms of expression, planetary architecture, these are all projects of others. Negativity is an experimental attitude, an exercise in remembering, followed now and then by a short series of outbursts, and then a long period of hiding inside normality. Optimism can turn into gloominess. On the other hand, it is impossible for cheerfulness to neutralise negativity. Negativity is itself a form of cheerfulness. There's no future for negativity, a punk would say. The marketing department of negative.com (TM) should really be at its wit's end, but that is not the case. Negativity continues unexpectedly to do well, generation after generation, even as it denies its own future.
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