The fable of termites and rotted pipes

We expected that the financial crisis has temporarily finished with our nerves to suggest reading this text Charlie Cook, National Journal, posted on September 2 Executive.com Government - under very rhythmic finally Trouble, trouble, trouble. This text is a kind of "roadmap" numerous internal problems facing the next president of the USA. An interesting aspect of this "roadmap" is, after all, that this financial crisis illustrates the housing crisis and the credit crisis there is almost as a postscript ( "The list of national woes would be complete without mentioning the home mortgage debacle and the related credit crisis. These problems - which will take years to fix ... ").

Read today some of our sponsors well in court, we believe that intervention skilful, determined and powerful of the Bush administration paying $ 700 billion of taxpayer money would solve the financial crisis, the problems that go with the other crises and problems that come with it, ie all the crises and all the outstanding problems of the USA, ie the crisis in the world until the "crisis of meaning" of our civilization. The "roadmap" Cook well appointed should be credited with refresh memory.

Two points are two symbolic images revealing and refreshing in this text (or depressing, depending), attracted our attention because they seem perfectly synthesize the structural situation of the USA. On the one hand, the image of termites and wolves, on the other hand, such as water pipes in New York.

• In the form of a fable, yet another, it could be called "termites and wolves." It is equipped, it is bard laws, possibly weapons, in all cases of anathemas and moral principles against wolves we imagine they are there at your doorstep, ready to attack you. Meanwhile, termites croquent the foundations on which the entire building is precious. Thus, describing the U.S. economy and its problems, but the image could also be presented to characterize our (the USA but also ours) perception of the moral order of the world, our values objectively Universal under the threat of attacks from the barbarians, when in reality these values with the conformism and they install the virtual home, gnawing our balance, our perception of the world, and for our psychology itself? This could be also the case of our power, turned toward the external enemy (the barbarian, more), and whose development overstaffed, inefficient maintenance, management bureaucratic as we are undermining the termites, and we deplete finally?