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Waiting for the End of the World: Politics, Finance, and the Gnosis of Crisis

Crises in the political domain tend to throw a spanner in the workings of government. The institutions of this form of government, which regulate, modulate and constrain the exercise of political power fall into disarray. Power thus springs free the mechanisms of governmental institutions, showing just how excessively saturated these institutions were with it. This is another way of saying that, in the political arena at least, the opportunities presented in a crisis usually come at the expense of the existing constitution. True gnostics of crisis understand this intuitively in much the same manner as Thulsa Doom of the 1981 film Conan the Barbarian understands “the riddle of steel.”