A Fox or Two

In order to accept the fact that the government has no more money, and can't just summon it up from its mysterious place of origin indefinitely, one has to get into a frame of mind that is perilously close to repentance. That's deeply unsettling. In order to accept this new state of affairs (in which the government is le busted, as the French say) a man has to stop believing the government's promises, and stop investing a religious faith in those promises. He has to admit that his god is a god that has failed. His god wrote a check that failed to clear. He knows that there are checks in the world that fail to clear. He understands that. But how could a divine check fail to clear? When that moment of stone cold realization settles in, the only conclusion is -- modus tollens -- that the signatory on those checks was not so divine after all...