In the French and Russian revolutions the priests and aristocrats who underpinned those orders were dealt with rather harshly if they did not succeed in fleeing.  We are just now at a stage where the problems posed by our equivalents of those priests and aristocrats, the neo-classical economists who brought us finance capitalism and the executives of the largest investment banks rating companies, insurance companies, etc., have just begun to be recognized.  Better worlds await, if we can only change the way we see things.  Yet the vast majority of the population still lives in superstitious dread of the supposedly awesome powers of these high priests of money.

We are not at a point where an alternative to neo-classical economics has seized the imagination of the majority of the population.  It is not a question of understanding, but rather of the effects of indoctrination wearing off.  Christopher Hill, writing about the English Revolution spoke of a "mindstop" that made it very difficult for most Englishmen to even conceive of deposing, let alone executing Charles I.  We are at such a point now.  Let us hope that it can be resolved better and with less social damage, death and suffering than accompanied the English, French and Russian Revolutions.

Anarchy or fascist distopia are the two walls of the abyss into which we do not want to descend.  In order to prevent such a descent, which would surely be accompanied by an environmental catastrophy, farsighted leaders with cool heads in which feasible alternatives can flourish must prevail.  We must abandon efforts to save the unsalvageable so that we can save what can be saved.  Trying to prop up the financial services industry is like the lifeboats  trying to tie lines onto the Titanic to keep it from sinking.  Continuing down that path will likely have similar results for us.  

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."