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1. (''Of the universe''): A plausible ultimate fate for all of creation is that it is to be entirely consumed by {{tag|flannel}}, such that the universe itself collapses into a state of irretrievable [[confusion entropy]], and the [[end of days|end of days ]]is upon us. This will not be a bang, nor even a whimper, but just a gentle settling into a state of inanimacy. | 1. (''Of the universe''): A plausible ultimate fate for all of creation is that it is to be entirely consumed by {{tag|flannel}}, such that the universe itself collapses into a state of irretrievable [[confusion entropy]], and the [[end of days|end of days ]]is upon us. This will not be a bang, nor even a whimper, but just a gentle settling into a state of inanimacy. | ||
2. (''Of commerce''): A state in which all commercial activity has been vanquished by [[disclaimers]], [[boilerplate]], and {{f|flannel}} — arrived at by means of a series of weekly [[all-hands conference call]]s — such that confusion has approached its asymptotic, catatonic maximum and there is a state of zero free thermodynamic creative energy. Commerce is no longer sustainable and collapses into a state of complete [[ennui]]. | |||
===In meaning=== | ===In meaning=== | ||
The [[event horizon]] — the point of no return — may well be something innocuous like a virtual webinar about the impact on [[LIBOR]] remediation of the [[EMIR refit]], such that we may not notice it happening and, indeed, it may already have happened. | The [[event horizon]] — the point of no return — may well be something innocuous like a virtual webinar about the impact on [[LIBOR]] remediation of the [[EMIR refit]], such that we may not notice it happening and, indeed, it may already have happened. | ||
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There is a school of thought that certain financial institutions, ''who shall remain nameless'', have already passed through an [[event horizon]] of [[tedium]], are well past saving themselves, only really appear to the rest of us through the strangulated light they emit from the fierce gravity to which they have succumbed. These ghostly banks, through their overweening mass, will eventually drag the rest of the financial universe into the [[abyss]] with them — indeed, may already have done so: the [[Schwarzschild radius of institutional ennui|Schwarzschild]] threshold is imperceptible, especially to those work in regulatory change programmes. You really cannot tell whether you are alive or dead. | There is a school of thought that certain financial institutions, ''who shall remain nameless'', have already passed through an [[event horizon]] of [[tedium]], are well past saving themselves, only really appear to the rest of us through the strangulated light they emit from the fierce gravity to which they have succumbed. These ghostly banks, through their overweening mass, will eventually drag the rest of the financial universe into the [[abyss]] with them — indeed, may already have done so: the [[Schwarzschild radius of institutional ennui|Schwarzschild]] threshold is imperceptible, especially to those work in regulatory change programmes. You really cannot tell whether you are alive or dead. | ||
===In commerce=== | |||
{{heatdeath}} | {{heatdeath}} | ||