<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/383c10ce-5b2c-42dc-93b5-856042516b80/07037E5C-8B6B-4094-BC7C-F1F0602E0D7C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://futurejacked.blogspot.com/2009/10/out-of-ashes.html" href="http://futurejacked.blogspot.com/2009/10/out-of-ashes.html" style="font-size: 11px;">futurejacked.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://futurejacked.blogspot.com/2009/10/out-of-ashes.html"><H3 class="post-title entry-title"><A href="http://futurejacked.blogspot.com/2009/10/out-of-ashes.html">Out of the Ashes</A> </H3> <DIV class="post-header-line-1"></DIV> <DIV class="post-body entry-content"> <P>For those of you following this blog over the years (and the growing number of new readers), we’ve pondered a variety of scenarios on how this enormous <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village">Potemkin Village</A> of brain dead finance, corrupt politics, hypersensitive factions in government and society, as well as the gutting of household balance sheets will handle <A href="http://www.socionomics.net/a.asp?url=/&cn=7fj">the coming conflagration of anger, fear and default</A>.</P><P>The short version: badly.</P><P>As we scenario plan our way up to the edge of the abyss of the Great Collapse, <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TL4XZdyo3g&feature=related">dystopias</A> abound.</P><P>Recalling Nietzsche’s warning to <A href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Friedrich_Nietzsche/">those who stare too long into the abyss</A>, let’s raise our eyes over the yawning chasm into which the hopes and delusions of an entire culture raised up in the warm sunshine of a Grand Supercycle Bull Market will plunge, screaming, and look towards that undiscovered country where those of us that survive the coming decade may find ourselves.</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/07037E5C-8B6B-4094-BC7C-F1F0602E0D7C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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