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Relating the financial crisis to Moses and the golden calf:
In popular culture it is common to raise an ordinary mortal to immense heights on the basis of the films they have been scripted to appear in or their ability to play a game with a ball. ... That does not matter too much when it is just a matter of film actors or football stars. But raise an entire institution - the unfettered financial world, for example - to the role of an idol and you are not critical of anything it does, either. That has more serious consequences. When outsiders try to show you its flaws, you will not genuinely listen to their arguments.
The author of the column is Gel speaker and friend David Bodanis (who was a focus of my crash course in innovation and wrote E=mc2). He also gave great talks at Gel '04 and euroGel '06 - here's a video clip.
