No one that I know exceeds me in cynical recognition of present circumstances, but I believe in the Antonio Gramsci attributed quote: “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” And the way to bulwark yourself with the latter despite the former is to self actualize grace as in love in action in oneself and in our various systems. Without such one becomes unwittingly prone to fulfilling the insight of the Japanese military theorist Sun Tsu who correctly noted that if you can convince the opponent that there is no reason to fight…you’ve won the war without a battle.

So the only real question is: Do you remain on all fours before Finance’s dominating monetary paradigm, or do you stand up on your own hind legs and create the realites of the new paradigm?