invisbile hand

the whole idea of invisible hand that will regulate the market is absurd. is it not just a passive aggressive position? instead of 'god' we have an 'invisible hand'. you can not ask the 'invisible hand' for responsibility and you can not ask god for it either.

when i was a child we didn't have horror films, but we kids would seat in the forest, in the village near yalta and tell horrible stories to each other. there was almost no light, so we woudl tell the stoires almost in the dark, seating on the broken piece of tree and tremble from fear. each sound form the forest or each strange shadow was giving us an extra shot of adrenaline and our phantasies would go wild! in certain moment we had to to the wc, which was in the end of the village. it was almost a ceremony. we all would go with our pocket lamps, it was a collective act. after those stories we were afraid of our own shadows and the fear will make our need to pie even more unbearable , but being together was a kind of hope that nothing will happen to us, together we will protect each other :). one of the favorite stories was one about 'the black hand' (in russian arm and hand is one thing). so this black hand was kind of a 'big brother always watching you', it would come to strangle you , when you didn't know.
the wc was surrounded by very high pine trees. on one of them, on the brunches there was a chest, made of wood with a big lock on it. my grandparents do not remember this chest, but we kids all new about it. we always thought that the black hand must live there and come one day out of there. so we would check every night if the big lock was still on it, as a guaranty that the hand will stay in this chest, hopefully for ever.

i still have the image of the pine tree with the wooden chest on it's brunches in front of my eyes :)