Last night I watched a German documentary( with English subtitles ) titled " Master of the Universe " -a nearly surrealistic experience for the viewer - filmed in a big , haunted , abandoned building once noisy with hundreds of greedy computers . Hardly looking from " Wall Street " central casting, middle aged German investment banker named Rainer Voss - ( sometime after THE FALL in 2008 ) cogitates on the world economic disaster.
I thought : did not Karl Marx describe this type a long , long, time ago .... their mad pursuit of quick profits at the dizzying heights of the banking industry ?
A review of the film by Chuck Bower has Voss talking about Europe's future economic desolation - " when France inevitably topples over ".
[ "Voss says that Europe’s economic desolation is a foregone conclusion, and it will fold when France inevitably topples over.
Though Voss’s ruminations are informed by a thirst for legal evasion as well as for self-glory, you’ll find yourself straining for a reason to refute his hopelessness.
Standing in his old office, perched atop the castle of his empty kingdom, resembling a middle-class King Lear as the winter storm blows in, Voss cuts a striking pose as a harbinger of doom. "]
Banker Rainer Ross - the view of desolation
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