It is rare that a one-sentence metaphor so perfectly describes something as seemingly complicated as the entire world, but this one, posted by the Administrator at The Burning Platform, is a gem. SLL made a tiny edit.
We are inhabiting a world stacked with TNT run by monkeys with matches.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/07/23/the-world-economy-in-one-visualization/
