“How on earth did this happen?” I ask him. “The only way I can explain it,” he says, “is that they got the money because it was there.” But he has another way to explain it, and in a moment he offers it up. “I think we’ve suffered from a series of mass delusions,” he says. I didn’t completely understand what he meant, and said so. “We’re all going to be rich,” he says. “We’re all going to live forever. All the forces in the state are lined up to preserve the status quo. To preserve the delusion. And here—this place—is where the reality hits.”
