Hushed Upheavals

One may say that, apart from wars and revolutions, there is nothing in our modern civilizations which compares in importance to [inflation]. The upheavals caused by inflations [sic] are so profound that people prefer to hush them up and conceal them.

Source: Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, 1984
Taken From:  Paul A Cantor, Hyperinflation and Hyperreality, 1994