For months now, reports and commentaries about the global financial crisis have compared recent developments to the Great Depression. While almost no one has a reliable memory of what life was like in the 1930s, media reports overflow with declarations that we're reliving that crisis. Fortunes are lost, people are forlorn, and doom is ahead. Alarmingly, this is not treated as a bad thing, according to the analysts, because they view the 1930s as an epoch of serious social advancement. Why are they so anxious to experience misery? Perhaps they're bored by their lives and want some defining crisis? Or, they want the chance to prove they can be as noble as their parents or grandparents. Perhaps, more darkly, they resent the advancements of recent decades, and want to see some "justice" restored.
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