(from Pocket Philosophy for End Times)
An insatiable monster with a million tentacles. Born with an infinitely expanding stomach, it has never known what feeling full is like. It has never questioned needing, wanting or stealing, because it does these automatically, like you and I breathe oxygen. Eating into infinity is not just the monster’s obsession. It is its existence. Once in a while the economy will come down with “man-flu”: it will pretend to feel nauseous, dizzy and depressed as it constantly measures its inflation and GDP like a manic hypochondriac. It will whine, complain, throw tantrums and start breaking things, just as it secretely gets fatter and fatter from snacks that it has been stashing away in secret bunkers. The economy is an ugly, fat brat who soon finds that it has grown too heavy to even move, too addicted to all the wrong foods: fossil fuel, corruption, exploitation. As the inflated monster begins to roll downhill, the bubble finally bursts.
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George Tsakraklides 
This is a spot-on perfect analogy on economy. It is great fuel for any discussion with the ultra-right on the economy. Your pieces are thoroughly thought through with great vernacular, analogies and precise details. Wow.
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To quote the late great Michael C Ruppert “Until you change the way that money works you change nothing”. R.I.P. scout.
let’s hope that it really goes downhill and doesn’t mutate on the way into a World Economic Forum Great Reset New World Order version, same capitalism in new shiny clothes.
This is brilliant! Should be the first paragraph of every economics text. I’ve always believed that science is just a technophile’s tool unless there is poetry in the hearts of those who study it, work on it, critique it etc.
Of course – poetry requires a heart…🖤
Thank you