The key issues are the rational desire to reduce debt loads, and the inadequacy of profitable investment opportunities in an economy flooded with excess capacity.

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For one of the sources of the Fascist movement is the desire to avoid a too- rational and too- comfortable world.

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Physicists call these causal loop paradoxes, and they affront our desire for the universe to be a rational and ordered system.

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If you make some money right away, there's this very deep desire that's not coming from the most rational, more advanced part of you mind to keep plowing in more cash.

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