So who are the Greek Gods

They are just our billionaires etc....

As I was reading American History on my tablet, 15 minutes later I was scrolling through what went down at Taylor Swift’s wedding.

How did I go from high-brow pursuit to that sugar-coated dreck? (But having Adam Sandler officiate is always a good idea)

I have no clue what occurred, but the thought occurred to me that these are our Greek Gods…

They demand our attention

All the character types of the Gods in Odysseus and Iliad are playing out everyday in politics, business, and entertainment.

Instead of People Incorporated, I would argue, Barry Diller should rename Greek myths Incorporated as we will truly know what we have in our hand when we digest this garbage.

Need proof?

Here is a screenshot and AI’s help in telling us that non of this is new

Khamenei’s funeral — House of Atreus
An aging patriarch falls, and the funeral itself becomes a political act rather than a private grief. His burial was delayed, breaking with Islamic custom, which is pure Sophocles — think Antigone, where the manner of burial matters more than the death itself, because it signals who controls the narrative of the dead. The massive crowd chanting “Death to America” as the casket moved through Tehran is the chorus doing what a Greek chorus always does: converting private mourning into public vengeance-oath. This is less “a king has died” and more “the House of Atreus buries one link in an unbroken chain of blood debts” — Agamemnon’s funeral rites, except everyone in the crowd is quietly auditioning for Orestes.

Trump meeting Zelenskyy at NATO — Agamemnon at Aulis
A commander trying to hold together a coalition of allies who don’t fully trust him or each other, right as tensions with allies are already visible and observers are testing how far he can push NATO. That’s Agamemnon at Aulis — nominal head of the Greek expedition, perpetually managing prickly subordinate kings (Achilles sulking in his tent is basically every NATO member with a grievance). The wrinkle: Turkey’s foreign minister framing the Erdogan-Trump friendship as something that could help NATO — that’s a Odysseus move, a canny secondary player positioning himself as the indispensable go-between, which is exactly the kind of maneuver that decides how these coalition wars actually end.

The undercard (Florida local news) — satyr play
Every tragic trilogy ended with a satyr play — bawdy, low-stakes comic relief after three acts of doom. The turnpike vehicle fire, the fireworks haze, the Delray Beach arrest — that’s your satyr play. The gods are busy with funerals and wars; meanwhile Palm Beach is just Palm Beach.

I can easily image this…

This should help you reframe what we are seeing in a way to generate unexpected, but accurate, expectations of the future.

You are not predicting, but through 1000s of years of history seeing the only options these Greek Gods will do.

Or will be presented as such to us over the internet.

Try this yourself with a problem or investment or modern event that is nagging you, I’m sure we would love to see what you come up with.

Make it a strong sober Monday,

Eric

PS. Did you see that the financial news are having another look at alcohol? It may make a comeback?