It is extraordinary how capitalism can produce, almost accidentally, an image of great power: this submersible with tickets at $250,000, on a disaster tourism trip to see the remains of the Titanic, that technological masterpiece dealt to by an iceberg. In turn, the submersible disintegrates, killing the wealthy who could afford this escapade in order to be able to tell a story to the wide-eyed party guest or perhaps feature it in a chapter of a memoir: I saw the wreck of a dream.

The planet still dictates to the life it has produced and homo sapiens has become perhaps the dumbest of species.