If the people wake up and realise that the financial world was never more than dreams, shadows and wishful thinking, I wouldn't necessarily see that as a bad thing.
Minimal collateral damage between here and there would be a good thing, of course.
I stand on using the meltdown as a cathartic purge, that we bring the true meaning of the word vision back into daily practice. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Vision is good. We've been twitching inside collective nightmares for far too long now.