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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. | ||
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 | 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]]. | Commerce is no longer sustainable and collapses into a state of complete [[ennui]]. | ||