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The avatars of the new make huge sums of money, all the while pontificating about the efficiency and rationality of the market.
All this would be simple enough but for the fact that the gods have appeared on earth in different incarnations, or avatars, with different names, forms, and natures.
Today's announcement that, as of Monday, Union Carbide, Sears, Chevron, and Goodyear will be replaced by Home Depot, SBC Communications, Microsoft, and Intel (the latter two being the first Nasdaq stocks ever to appear in the Dow) is fine testimony to what all of us already knew: that the U.S. economy has changed dramatically in the last two decades, and that former industrial powerhouses have been superseded by the avatars of the New Economy.
I suggest that these scattered avatars of balagan/balcony evidence descent from a single Proto-Indo-European root, most prolifically in Italian and Persian.
Mondadori's Pocket Italian-English English-Italian Dictionary (1959) attempts to introduce its Anglophone users to the glories of Italian civilization by entering the names of some of its avatars and describing their achievements in English: