Will school books begin explaining that Freedom means a world motivated by calculated transactions, that potent agency is expressed as smug contempt of suckers? Maybe. This is the morality that we are being asked to bow down to. And it might work out OK for the Epstein set, but everyone else dies. Clear-cut ethics were Tolstoy’s backbone and also the inspiration for Bresson’s L’Argent. Here we have the ethereal nature of fiat money as the original sin manifest. It floats through hands like a curse. Once succumbed to its power, it’s all downhill to the boneyard with no chance of redemption. Is there a transcendentalist take on this? Bresson’s last film? I don’t see it. But bog help us if this is the moral universe the trumps and tech bros are taking us.
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