An alliance was formed between financial experts who thought they were selling truly innovative ideas, a political elite that endorsed the philosophy of “regulation lite,” and a cultural climate that pushed experimentation and the rejection of traditional values. The result was that every sort of value – including financial values – came to be seen as arbitrary and fundamentally absurd.
一个同盟就此结成，一边是自以为在兜售绝顶创意的金融高手，一边是推崇“无为规管”哲学的政治精英，还有一边则是热衷于尝新、对传统价值弃之如敝屐的文化气候。结果，一切价值——包括金融业的传统价值——都被看作是僵硬武断、顽固不化，因而也就是骨子里的谬论。