When incomprehension no longer produces new heights of prosperity, but rather economic collapse and failure, it is not surprising that it turns to anger. Finding out who is to blame becomes more and more like the late medieval and early modern search for witches: a way of making sense of a disorderly and hostile universe.
当无厘头再也无法推高繁荣的泡沫，当经济崩溃铺天盖地袭来，毫不奇怪，这个狂欢同盟也就一下子从狂喜转为狂怒。寻找谴责对象的做法也变得越来越像中世纪后期和现代早期那种迫害女巫的勾当：在一个失序和充满敌意的世界里，这是一种强求意义的方式。