Future Shock: The Seldon Vault Opens!

Hari Seldon

(I use Asa Kasher's picture for Hari Seldon)

After a long period of time, the Seldon Vault opened again, and everyone flocked down to see what old Professor Seldon had up his Psycho-Historical sleeve, as it were:

By this time, the US Senate will have voted down the amendment to break up big banks.

I used to analyze these things with Psycho-History, until I found an unusually brainy fellow ( whose name I forget ) who said that the problem with Big Banks and Mega-Banks lies in the fact that any problems in the financial sector down the road will be Big Problems and Mega-Problems.

That sums it up. William Tecumseh Sherman's advice on the Iraq War was also good: War is Hell! I like brief advice; gets right to the root of the situation... saves time in psycho-historical computations. Good and brief  counsel is the best Algorithm!

It doesn't matter to you assembled here, really. The Big Bank scenario is part of the forking road to disaster, so keep trying to get your acts together to survive it. You cannot change it within the foreseeable future... it will only be changed after the next... downturn in the year two thousand and...

At this point, screen went blank, and we all looked at each other with wild surmise. I myself had one of those Ghostbusters moments; you know, where Zool says:  choose the form of the Destructor!