crash! the naive fact that turns against ourselves is that we rather trust the usual, the conventional, than the non-conformist and strange. just then, when certain pinstriped (ladies and) gentlemen wreck half of our national economies in a devious manner, while speechless spectators are still clinging to the textile insignia of competence. pinstripes and a well tended haircut - the emblems of seriousness and responsibility, the indispensable consolations for each small investor! the gestures also pursue ambivalent goals, they don't serve exclusively as signs for adventurous stock market transactions, but also as pleas for innocence, if exactly these transactions lack the promised success. an exercise for everyday urban life: if infants, who have been entrusted to you show interest in the tattooed men sitting next to you, don't try to get them out of supposed harm's way!
