fahrenheit451:006

( Preface to this critique of Political economy.)

Just kidding. Kind of. I'd intended to base this blog entry on the current Ambrose Evans-Pritchard article in the Daily Telegraph.His analysis and commentary on the unfurling and convoluted developments of global stock market ructions and their underlying causes provide ammunition aplenty for any critique of the Global Capitalist hegemony. Providentially,a current motion picture release based on the novel , " The Big Short ",which deals with the events surrounding and triggering the global financial meltdown/banking crisis in 2008 more than adequately addresses all the otherwise complex and repetitive polemical points one would be expected to score in a diatribe against Capitalism. So,originally published at www.destinypoets.co.uk here it is ,in a poem.

The Big Short

Did they offer you a thought

for all your pennies ?

did they want your gold

in exchange for a goose's egg ?

did they swap your silver linings

for a sky full of clouds ?

Would you trade your last dollar

for their word of honour ?

Do you keep all of their promises

in a jar ready to use on a rainy day ?

and all of these things

they saw but they did not see ,

they heard but they did not hear ,

and they knew ,

they knew it all

but still they tried not to know.