Its kind of shocking to read some of these stories and realize how, well, how shocked I don't feel. Is the modern nervous system so overstimulated as to be insusceptible to such outrageousness? 

No doubt the nine banks into which the US is planning to inject billions in capital - again, all taxpayer dollars - have their lawyers searching for those escape hatches. ...the Institute for Policy Studies calculated that last year the CEO's of those nine banks took home "on average, $32.2 million each, nearly triple the average CEO pay at the 500 biggest US companies. This is more than $600,000 a week." Apiece.

I mean, this is just utterly incomprehensible, this volume of money. And yet my emotional reaction is "meh."

About five years ago I created some Flash animation for this website... a bold, but flickering statement "IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE EMPIRE." (You can still see that when launching the media player.)

While obviously prescient, I had no idea how profoundly overstated this Empire would flaunt itself. Hence, perhaps the deer in headlights feeling while reading these stories as of late. Its so brazen that one actually can't process it fully.

OR, I've just gotten so used to the idea of the "end of the world as we know it" that these things no longer surprise. Truth has certainly out-stranged fiction and this hazy incomprehensibility is in need of a new word.

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