international law invasion of Iraq. And it was important that it was illegal because it was hypocritical. And it undermined the very argument for unipolarity, for the rules-based liberal order, for American foreign policy and the beneficence of American empire. And the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, which once again showed that the elites in society were willing to change the rules. Everything they said about why they were doing, what they were doing, turned out to be just a story. And that goes back to the nihilism. It's just a story. It doesn't matter. It doesn't mean anything. In that sense, it's also very post-modern, which is why you also see as a core framework in financial nihilism, this concept of narrative investing, which is that it's all just a narrative. It's not actually true. We just have to believe it hard enough and get enough people to believe it along with us, and the price will go up. And price is the signifier. Price is the thing that matters to us. That's (8/99)
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