Moya Lázaro, Fernando.
These videos should be watched before reading this essay:
< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWDdcD-1xoo&feature=youtu.be >
< http://youtu.be/ScwGBNMH428 >
If there is someone who can explain the current crisis freely, this is a humorist.
Everyone else would take the situation too serious; there are some angles of the problems that only can be analyzed from the humor. Other way, we would be so angry that we would not be able to breath and finally choked to death on our own bitterness.
The videos show us a good example of good humor. There is no need of strong words or slap faces or people falling or even a bizarre picture. Only two people sitting in front each other talking. These videos are hilarious but they leave a slight aftertaste, you feel like you have been watching something amazing but at the end they were saying the truth as simple as it is.
There are several epic lines, for example:
At the beginning when the banker is recalling the time when his generation had some kind of certainty and order, saying that that time was dubbed “the golden age”. The anchorman asked him when this Golden Age was, 60’s or 50’s; and the banker asked that it was “June last year”.
Then the banker complains about some difficult question as:”Where’s the money gone?” and asked “As if I am suppose to know”.
Finally my favorites are; first the way the banker explains how the market works as a “sophisticated mechanism; sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down. When there is more greed than fear it goes up, when there is more fear than greed it goes down.”
The other is when the anchorman asked if he (the banker) is not worried about not understanding how some formulas work and the banker answered: “Of course, it didn’t (worried). In fact it would have been worrying me if I had. Because if I could understand when anybody could”.
There is much more apart from the humor. There is a criticism of our society; we thought that everything was going perfectly as long as we did not know how it worked. As the banker said in the video:
– “Some idiot somewhere asked the question that should never have been asked”
-“Which which was…?
-“Which was: How much of these things worth?
I wish I were able to explain the crisis so accurate and simple.