Agreed, and thank you to consumer culture and all of the other shit that contributed as well.
But that was an actual crisis, even if it should have been avoided. And it's understandable. Americans bought more home than they could afford, salesmen were greedy and helped people get loans they shouldn't have, banks let that happen, regulators looked the other way, CDO's and CMO's got all fucked up with lower credit tranches than they should have had, so investors were exposed to more risk than they thought, and everybody looked the other way because they were making money or otherwise getting what they wanted. None of that should have happened, but it all makes sense. It's just people being people.
This is a crisis created out of thin air, entirely by one man. And it only makes sense if he actually wants to destroy the world economy, or if his narcissism has advanced to the level of a mental disorder that forces him to hurt people to prove his own superiority.
And we're completely fucked either way.