By Douglas Rushkoff Published June 3, 2009 7:02 p.m.
“As the financial institutions we have come to rely on appear to topple under their own weight, it's only natural that we rush to support them. These are the banks, investment groups, and insurance firms to which we have outsourced our savings, financing, and investing. They fund our businesses and lend most of our currency into existence. Were we just a bit more aware of how this dependency developed, however, as well as what it costs us in the long run, we might choose instead to exploit their temporary vulnerability toward very different ends. Indeed, if we had our wits about us, we would seek to put our biggest banks out of our misery, for good.”
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About Douglas Rushkoff | Douglas Rushkoff is the author of ten books, including his latest, Life Inc., and the writer of the Frontline award-winning documentary The Merchants of Cool. He teaches at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he founded and runs the Narrative Lab, which explores the relationship of narrative to media in an age of interactive technology. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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