Go here http://www.biiwii.com/analysis.htm and read Bill Bonner's thoughts on Debt & the Printing Press, along with some other Monday morning reading. But especially, read Rick Ackerman's Shoppers Slouch Towards Bethlehem.
I try to keep muted my disgust with this picture of the American 'culture', but long time readers have seen it creep into my work over the years. It is a view of a significant segment of lazy thinking, slovenly, hubris addled pigs within the population.
I believe the ad man is leading the way toward a very dangerous place for society and that slowly, critical thinking is being bred out of the culture. Think about the ad man, how hip he is nowadays. He's on the job with rap and hip hop, he co-opted the punk rock movement and presented us with that bland new wave crap in the 80's. He packages and sells a brand of rebellion and 'do your own thing' ethos to today's young people. And they are doing it too, with the myriad devices and operating systems he sells to them.
Society is being co-opted. I am a natural curmudgeon and I hate being categorized and massaged over. Yet, I realize that a lot of this stuff is vital now and indeed I willingly let Google and Apple take me where I need to go. But it seems that a segment of the population just gets dumber and dumber, and that is scary because I think that ignorance and sloth go hand in hand with societies that eventually become closed off and lose their freedoms.
I mean look at the Presidential candidates; it looks like one dumbass after another pandering to a nation of dumbasses with banal sound bite after banal sound bite cooked up by... yup, the ad man (who happens to have been studying Ron Paul and perhaps even Mises).
Hey thanks Rick! Get me off topic on a Monday morning when I need to be ready for what the market has to offer. Which, by the way, appears to be playing to current analysis pretty well.
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I try to keep muted my disgust with this picture of the American 'culture', but long time readers have seen it creep into my work over the years. It is a view of a significant segment of lazy thinking, slovenly, hubris addled pigs within the population.
I believe the ad man is leading the way toward a very dangerous place for society and that slowly, critical thinking is being bred out of the culture. Think about the ad man, how hip he is nowadays. He's on the job with rap and hip hop, he co-opted the punk rock movement and presented us with that bland new wave crap in the 80's. He packages and sells a brand of rebellion and 'do your own thing' ethos to today's young people. And they are doing it too, with the myriad devices and operating systems he sells to them.
Society is being co-opted. I am a natural curmudgeon and I hate being categorized and massaged over. Yet, I realize that a lot of this stuff is vital now and indeed I willingly let Google and Apple take me where I need to go. But it seems that a segment of the population just gets dumber and dumber, and that is scary because I think that ignorance and sloth go hand in hand with societies that eventually become closed off and lose their freedoms.
I mean look at the Presidential candidates; it looks like one dumbass after another pandering to a nation of dumbasses with banal sound bite after banal sound bite cooked up by... yup, the ad man (who happens to have been studying Ron Paul and perhaps even Mises).
Hey thanks Rick! Get me off topic on a Monday morning when I need to be ready for what the market has to offer. Which, by the way, appears to be playing to current analysis pretty well.
http://www.biiwii.blogspot.com
http://www.biiwii.com
Even Prechter haters would do well to read his theories of socionomics and social mood. Financial collapse or turmoil, political upheaval, and horrible, animalistic mob action are all part of the same cloth. And unfortunately, in Elliott terms, this coming wave down is going to be a lolopalooza on all fronts as the social mood darkens to a point we haven't seen in many lifetimes. Whoopee.
ReplyDeleteI have basically been afraid of this society's potential for longer than I want to remember.
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