Actuarial tables and The Fall

December 28, 2007

It’d be interesting to look at actuarial tables throughout America’s history, and see the old formulas losing money these days of catastrophes, cancers, chain-reaction side-effects.  Getting closer to cataclysm? Lloyd’s of London about to go under?  Bailed out by a side-effect: an operating principle called a billionaire.  The man without a cell-phone! the second richest man of all, the heroiiillliiianaire waving his hat and saying it’s ok. We’re all gonna be ok these days these changes. For what are days if anything but changes, stasis intercalated in time: time which is the end of time.  Because if time doesn’t end, what will? Sell me a share of Berkshire Hathaway A, and I’ll think just like you long enough to tell you the answer.