Idolatry, Wall Street & Ozymandias
Posted by Dan Tocchini on September 18th, 2008 filed in Confessions Of A Fanatic, Conversations That TransformYesterday’s trouble on Wall Street reminded me of Shelly’s famous poem Ozymandias.
I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert … Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works ye mighty and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.– Percy Bysshe Shelley
December 6th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I appreciate this poem, especially in the aftermath of what has come recently in market crashes. It reminds me of the movie “The Emperor’s Club”, the quote: “Great achievement without contribution is without significance”. In an odd way I see a strong correlation between this poem you’ve posted and the quote.
December 9th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
See http://financialsense.com/editorials/quinn/2008/1209.html
and
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w63.html
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