The Hollow Men (1925) has had a profound effect on the Anglo-American cultural lexicon. An obituary for the author T.S. Eliot stated that the last four lines of the poem are “probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English.”
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.[1]
Source: Wikipedia
Which brings to mind…
Spicy Article Nov 17/25 by CAROLE CADWALLADR Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Excerpts from article:
“Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it’s practically visible from space.”
And today, in a strange bit of timing, news lands that Peter Thiel – the closest thing the modern world has to a real-life Bond villain – has dumped his entire holding in Nvidia, the chip manufacturer. That’s the company which, alongside OpenAI, sits at the very centre of a trillion dollar…gamble. Or, as some people are calling it, a bubble. A bubble that could upend the entire US economy.
Naomi Klein wrote an entire book called “The Shock Doctrine” which detailed how all capitalism is “disaster capitalism”, an economic system that exploits global shocks and human misery to accrue ever greater wealth and power for the few. And this is what she posted this morning:
Michael Burry, the legendary investor at the centre of Michael Lewis’s book on the financial crisis, The Big Short, shocked the market last week. He also decided AI’s a bubble and he took action: shortselling not just Nvidia but also Palantir. And now Michael Burry has take even more dramatic action. He has closed his entire investment fund saying, “My estimation of value in securities is not now, and has not been for some time, in sync with the markets.” Business Insider reports he also left a “cryptic message” on Twitter:
This is the way the bubble bursts
This is the way the bubble bursts
This is the way the bubble bursts
Not with a whimper but a bloody bleating bust!Anonymous
Court Painter with recent image of Sam & Bubble Burst