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,
however, 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."