The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer. - Dan Simmons

What?
Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.

As is always the case when you are with the actual human being behind the celebrity or legend, there is something human about the man or woman that makes things less than myth.

What was the Depression?
Bad economic times in their pure capitalist nation-state, Aenea said. Remember, the economy wasn't really global then, and it depended upon private money institutions called banks, gold reserves, and the value of physical money—actual coins and pieces of paper that were supposed to be worth something. It was all a consensual hallucination, of course, and in the 1930s, the hallucination turned nightmare.