This still knocks me out...
And now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had build empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth-- but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be part of the world, and not an enemy of it
...it sums up our whole human condition. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
I was involved in a production of Alfred Jarry's 'Ubu Roi' in 1967 at the Gulbenkian Hall at London's Rpyal College of Art - which takes us back to the Oil Business ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulbenkian.
Jarry is sometimes called the father of the Theatre of the Absurd - something that needs supporting since it also influenced the Who! You can't be me, I'm taken
