you start pulling one string, you start pulling one, you don't know what it's attached to. It could bring the whole system down. That's what effectively happened. That's exactly what happened. And so it basically, you keep doing it until it collapses, but you can pull a few out before it collapses. Oh, it's still standing. Okay. So we can pull this support. Oh, but still standing. And then, of course, you don't know which one is the one that takes it down. So it's essentially what was going on in the Soviet Union. And it kept on going until it just fell apart. Yeah. So I'm curious here, two questions. One is the observation again that I made earlier, which is that in retrospect, it seemed inevitable, but at the time it seemed impossible. Do you think that's because even though we might, our brains might say, yes, this is unsustainable, we all talk about it, for example, in the current dynamic and financial markets. It's unsustainable. This isn't a sustainable equilibrium. And yet, the (38/96)
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