IGNIS FATUUS

I read this very long article about Wall Street today.
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom?tid=true
Michael Lewis is a good, persausive writer and he managed to draw me into his maya illusion. I felt quite sick after reading about the excesses of capitalism.
Then I started to discriminate. So a few swearing nerds made a lot of money from the collapse of the global financial system, and a large man with big hands lost a job that was well paid because of some words that were written about him and the empire he created.
What does that mean?
If you take it from the view point of leaving the world alone, of realising the illusion then it means nothing.
Absolutely meaningless.
My granny wouldn't have a frame of reference to understand that article, it would take some time to explain it to her, to get her to appreciate the complexity of the illusion. In fact I'm not sure you could explain that one to my Gran, she'd probably look blankly and say 'That´s nice dear'.
Get her talking about homosexuality, or black presidents and that would be a different matter.
Nothing matters. No thing matters. What is beyond matter is what matters.
Things, stuff, illusion, complexity, trash it is all worthless. Foolish fire, Ignis Fatuus.
If you have nothing and everyone around you loses their stuff, are you in a better situation?
If you have nothing then you are in the best position of all, and you would rejoice at everyone else having nothing. But of course this is hard to understand as most people are involved in this Ignis Fatuus that is the world.

'Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. ' - Morihei Ueshiba