time to party like it's 1929

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I didn't feel comfortable talking about this at work, due to the non-disclosure clause in my contract, but hell, this is very public news by now. Guess what day it is today?

Yes, that's right! It's BLACK MONDAY!

Five hundred points. The Dow dropped five hundred points. In one day. You aren't supposed to ever see numbers like that on the stock

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[virtualstar]

"Why worry when I'll just end up dead anyway." -Ladri di Biciclette

[erf_]

This is no time for nihilism!

[virtualstar]

Nor was post-war Italy a time for nihilism.

[erf_]

On the contrary, postwar Italy was the perfect time for nihilism. They had been stirred up with delusions of neo-Roman grandeur and were instead bombed to ruins.

This is more like, oh, I'm falling off a cliff. I should probably find something to grab.

[virtualstar]

Or, Italy in 1948 had nothing. Post-war, they were optimistic: there could be change, real revolution, something new. By 1948 they had nothing, the optimism was dead, and the economy even more so. Now, we falling off a cliff, the world is changing as we speak, why would nihilism be more or less out of place now?

[erf_]

Because we didn't get our hopes up in the first place.