“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”
- Wilson Mizner.
You come to realise just how vulnerable the modern world is to sudden distress when you play Dark Realms Studios’ Pandemic 2. The game has you in the role of a contagious disease and you gain points by spreading infection (which, of course, meets the accusation of appearing tasteless, but the game predates the current outbreak of Swine Flu by at least a year). Throughout the game, aircraft gently scud across the globe and ships slowly track across the oceans; their freight may or may not be deadly. Our convenience of modern transport comes at a price.
And
infectious outbreak is the perfect metaphor for the storm that has raged across
markets over the past two years. For disease, read credit. For plague carriers,
read banks. And, in their turn, homeowners, and investors. Very few of us were
immune..
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