The new millennium
The answer can be seen in Figure 5.
In the year 2000 the
index seems to stumble
across an obstacle, an
invisible wall.
And it is still
vibrating under
the influence of the
collision.
Its beautiful upward trend
is suddenly interrupted.
If you could see the curves before and after 2000
separately,
you would not believe that the one is the continuation
of the other.
Figure 6 shows (in some magnification
to highlight the differences)
the actual curve of the index from the
year 2000 and thereafter.
Has this diagram anything to do with the diagram in Figure 4?
Is it possible to be its sequel?
Figure 4, regardless of some vibrations, shows
a clear accelerating upward trend.
In Figure 6, the accelerating rise has disappeared,
and the only thing that is left are
the vibrations.
The curve in Figure 4 was a typical "success curve".
It was the proof of the success of our
system. It showed
its dynamics, its trend for continued
growth.
Figure 6 shows what? Nothing specific you would think.
The system has an initial decline becoming
ever more pronounced, but then something
happens, a happy coincidence intervenes and,
like magic, gives it the strength to rise again.
The acceleration of growth, however, is
lost forever.
The rise begins
suddenly but instead of
accelerating it slows down
continually.
As if something
happened around 2000 which changed
fundamentally the law of the
phenomenon.
At point B (or shortly before)
we have the first rise, but it does
not last too
long and is followed by the worst drop
ever.
At point C (or shortly before)
we have the second rise which is
maintained for
almost four years and to which is
added the
increase that starts at point D and
leads the index
to a height greater than the maximum
in 2000.
"Apparently the system does
not know what it is doing,
someone told me when I showed him the curve,
it suffered a hard blow to the head
and is still staggering".
― Why are you so surprised, say the advocates
of the system.
This blow is nothing
other than the impact of terrorism. We
hardly had the time to
celebrate the arrival of the new century
and our system was
attacked. An unprecedented attack of
unbelievable cruelty,
with thousands of dead. The axis of evil
began to move. The
forces of darkness started their dirty war
against the forces of
light. They shattered the twin towers, the
symbol of
globalization! What did you expect?
That this would have no
impact?
I'm sure this argument can convince you very
little,
because you are able to see that the decline of the
system does not follow but precedes the destruction
of its symbol, the twin towers.
However, because this opinion illustrates
very nicely the quality of the arguments
with which the world is governed,
it is worthwhile dealing with.