In the Faustian economy of the twenty first century, there is a new dialectic. That is between the deadbeats and the true believers. The deadbeats are essentially those people who have given up. They have given up on paying their mortgages, their credit cards, and their child support. They have also given up on trying to lose weight, or on trying to find a job, or on anything that will alleviate their condition. Their only quest is for an extension to their unemployment check, a stimulus bill, and another pill of Oxycontin or Prozac just to through another day.
The deadbeats are dragging down the economy by defaulting on their obligations and debts, which are held in the form of complicated financial derivatives by the remaining true believers. Unfortunately, more and more true believers are mutating into deadbeats, much like the fate of surviving humans in a zombie movie. Soon, we will all be reduced to a wandering mob living out our cars in a flea market nation.
