BROOKSLEY BORN.(double B, like Dobbs in the movie referenced below.)
Brooksley Born is an economist and an attorney who in the late 90s warned the country about building an economy not rooted in reality. The danger of abandoning the gold standard of course is like the danger one faces when abstracting anything for the sake of convenience and ease of use. It gets more and more "derivative" until nobody remembers where it actually came from in the first place. (This is what happened to universities and high culture when they abandoned the Logos fatto carne we would argue)We are not vapor, we are flesh and blood and likewise the. world we inhabit is more than an idea, it is a phenomenological reality. Of course the WSJ noted that the nation's top financial regulators wished Born would shut up. Which she did not, HA! and consequently was fired in 1999.
BUSH V GORE.
The following year there was an election which came down to an argument about "dimpled chads."
9/11
The year after that was 9/11 where the terrorists attacked the financial center of the United States and arguably the world in order to establsih Sharia which the rank and file terrorists, (not perhaps their leaders according to some Muslims) believe is the will of God. We might add that Bush's entire presidency was consecrated to the Lady of Guadalupe by someone in his family who was Catholic.
MAN OF THE YEAR.
The economy didn't actually tank until 2008, but in 2006 when the Pinocchio Primary School was coalescing, a movie was made about double letters and computer glitches, and the dangers of big tech, and big money, and yes, big government even, that threaten our freedom, called Man of the Year. Whether the double letter aspect of the plot referenced Born is not known. However the movie did feature a woman who was ridiculed for warning the nation about the dangers of handing over our freedom to a machine. In the movie it was not a voting machine but a computer, and it was not economics but politics but one can draw ones own conclusions, as free people.