Banks as monsters; what next?

Paul Krugman gets Gothic, placing blame for the economic crisis. It's the finance sector, out of control.  Brilliant bankers, gone too far:

finance turned into the monster that ate the world economy..
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The Gothic language around the economy is beginning to sketch out, dream-like, a political meme.  Banks are monsters (vampires, or zombies). Citizens are victims, suffering, but their pain is turning to a desire for revenge (peasants with pitchforks and torches). 

Are we seeing the emergence, this month, of a political idea? Gothic monster language describes a storyline, a course of action.  This is why Marx used it so well - capitalism was a vampire, a werewolf, a creature with rules, which could therefore be understood, grappled with, and defeated.

That naming, that understanding must have enormous appeal, when trying to figure out the financial crisis requires wading through so many layers of professional complexity and, sometimes, obfuscation.

This story, once it appears, can then be used.  President Obama can evoke it, when positioning himself between bankers and pitchforks.  Those urging restraint can use the specter of horror as a reason to control policies and citizens.  And so on.