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Card #c37IR // #c37Synthesis

The outbreak of war in 1914 showed these financial capitalists at their worst, narrow in outlook, ignorant, and selfish, while proclaiming, as usual, their total devotion to the social good.

— In our words · Source: Tragedy and Hope (Carroll Quigley)

[Use when]

When the experts' models say a crisis is impossible and it happens anyway — remember who the models served.

[Why it matters]

Quigley, the insider-sympathizer, delivers his harshest verdict on the bankers at the exact moment their system met reality — expertise as performance, self-interest as public service.

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