Is it just me?

I sympathize with Tyler Durden. The man may have been crazy but he was in the right when he defined our generation as an uneventful blip in the history of mankind. What mark will we leave on this world, I wondered once. How could we be content with the spiritual war he described? But I believe we may have the answer now. So I ask the question: Is it just me or does anyone else also believe that we are finally on the verge of a historic event? - a great depression to overcome the unimportant personal ones that our lives have become. So pardon me when I can't help grinning throughout the day when the Sensex crashes by 1000 points. Excuse me when I feel a weird sense of excitement bubbling inside when I hear the news of another bank going broke. It is not masochism; neither is it a sense of denial, because its not personal. It is a sense of being a part of something much bigger; a social churning where everything breaks down back to the lowest common denominator and starts building up again, an upheaval where we all find ourselves waiting for the starting gun once more, hope of a pain that will be an inspiration for bluesmen to write real blues once again. Its like Orson Welles put it, 'In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.' The irony is that the cuckoo clock is actually from Germany.