Obama will not bring us out of this. I’ve suggested elsewhere that he is a high functioning autistic. He is not capable of understanding the obvious consequences of his actions, beyond the simple dynamics of division and the politics of the bold lie of a con artist.

It delays the recovery — if recovery is possible to entertain the theory that the fix will come through Obama. It is like hoping that a group of leukemia cells can be convinced by some magic microbiology to kill off all the other leukemia cells.

Yet Brooks is correct when he asks if we are operating far beyond our economic knowledge. And he’s right only for the reason he seems to tie to that statement, where he says “Every time the administration releases an initiative, I read 20 different economists with 20 different opinions.”

That extreme diversity of opinions in the class of elite experts in the field indicates not only a complete failure of common sense, but a Babel situation, that no one can hear each others words any more — everyone is on their own, unable to communicate! Yes they use words and proper grammar, and educated compositional structure, but any wisdom is hard to find, because a common basis for economic discussion is missing. It is as if all the learned wisdom of ages is forgotten.

Time for the return of the Gods of The Copybook Headings. Or worse — what will be in ten years, chaotic breakdown among the whole of the world’s societies leadership and elites is rare. Babel was one, perhaps the fall of Rome another. But even the collapse of the Roman Empire could be a minor event compared toteh speed and force of our current collapse.

Where is the system reactance? Normally some major reactance develops to such dynamics, yet we seem to be almost without it. ALL, or close to, the men and women in power and authority seem to have no energy, be corrupt, or be, well, high functioning autistics.