The Icelanders have a leg up on you on the "stock up on olive oil and pasta" bit. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
On the Beach
set in Southern Australia as the radiation that has wiped out everyone to the North works its way inexorably South.... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
