“I saw an interesting thing today. A man was being arrested by the Military Police; probably an urban guerrilla. Rather than be taken alive, he exploded a grenade hidden in his jacket, taking the command vehicle with him.”
The various men look up as Michael eats his cake, wondering what the
point of it is.
“It occurred to me: the police are paid to fight, and the Rebels are not.”
- Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in ‘The Godfather Part II’; screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola.
At first sight, the title looks melodramatic; then you remember what actually happened last year. Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG.. $30 trillion in notional equity market wealth destroyed.. unprecedented measures taken by the world’s monetary authorities.. a nuclear winter of complete distrust settling in on the global banking system. In that context, ‘The age of the unthinkable’ (Joshua Ramo – Little, Brown; March 2009) is aptly labelled.
There are many intriguing citings
and conceptions in ‘..unthinkable’, but that of Deutschlands
Geisteshelden is one of the best: a 200 square foot canvas by Anselm
Kiefer to which the web is unlikely to do much justice;
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