Predictable

Go to my office, sit at my desk

Predictably just like all of the rest

I sit and I dream about far away places

Away from the people with frowns on their faces

All of my life is monotony

I'd go out for a walk, but I know it would be... predictable

Sure as the nose on my face

Same for the whole human race

Once we had so many options

Once we had dignity and grace

Now we have got nothing but our own time to waste

-- Ray Davies (The Kinks) 1981

inflation to war

 The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

-- Ernest Hemingway