b'When fear is compounded by fear, financial crisis by biological crisis, biological crisis by racial crisis, does the same law of human nature apply? Or is this this time really different? 2Are we on the cusp of systemic economic change and millions of life-altering changes of heart, when the pandemic passes and the stock market goes back up? Or, as the bard so sagely put it, is the past prologue, even in the age of black swans, rogue algorithms and rampaging viruses?This particular Prologue has two primary audiences.The first is those whove connected over the past decade under the banner of the slow money movement. Tens of thousands have attended 2 This-time-is-different thinking is so infectious that. . . From an abstract of This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (Princeton University Press, 2009) https://www.econo-mist.com/media/pdf/this-time-is-different-reinhart-e.pdf11'