The fall, huh? There are actually two of those going on:
Interpretation 1: we’re living the best of the fall season in Finland right now.
Interpretation 2: the market crash.
I’m feeling ambivalent about both. Here’s – briefly – why:
As for the fall the season, I love the awesome colors but I don’t like what fall as a season heralds. I like the clean, fresh and moist air but I don’t like the inevitable rain or the cold temperatures. I welcome the dark nights and the evenings, but I loathe the darkness’ intrusion into the daytime hours.
And as for the fall the crash, I like the fact that with this, some more people might understand that infinite growth is not possible. I don’t like it that it started from the financial sector or that it’s spilling over that now. I would’ve preferred the crisis to having been caused by the realization of Peak Oil or something similar because had that been the case, maybe the trillions of dollars now being spent in an attempt to stem the crisis could’ve produced some good, tangible results instead of trying to desperately clear up a mess created by financial wizardry-gone-awry.
I like the fact that some of the most absurd salaries in the financial sector will now come down. I don’t like the fact that we can’t get any of those hundreds of millions of dollars back that have already been paid to the executives responsible for this mess. I don’t like the privatize profit, socialize risk-schemes and the enormous consequences they have.
