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BANZAI7 NEWS--A new species of monkey has been discovered. Known by locals in remote parts of Keynesia as kleptula, the monkey apparently drinks ink, eats savings accounts and shits greenbacks.
The species has been discovered just as it is being threatened with being hunted and eaten into extinction by hungry banksters, angry libertarians and financial news bloggers.
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WB, you work on multiple levels. But I'm sure you already know that.
Humans are excellent at pattern matching. We do this better than probably any animal that has ever lived. We have this pair of huge pattern engines between our ears, the most complex in the entire animal kingdom, probably the most complex in the universe.
This in large part is what makes us human.
While pattern matching is important for complex communications, interactions and invention, it is also a trap. Because unless we allow for all inputs all the time, our patterns are no better than the last bit of data. The problem for modern humans is that there is now so much data to process that we barely get through the morning batch of inputs before the afternoon batch shows up demanding our attention. Most people simply give up at some point and "go with what they got". Probably at around 12 years of age.
In this way we invariably end up building our lives around old news, worn ideas, past battles and yesterday's challenges. By degrees we construct a shelter of patterns within our minds, secure inside it against the sea of external inputs, knowing that the familiar confines of our shelter are a close approximation of the real world.
Unti, that is, things start moving too fast. Then that shelter becomes less a comfort and more a cage.
It does not matter that it is a cage of our own construction. Or that it's just ideas. We are stuck with it and importantly we are stuck inside it and unless we start processing information again at a furious rate we will not find the part of the cage that was supposed to be the emergency exit. The results of us failing to do this successfully are the headlines; mass murders, random violence, public shootings, road rage. ZH has it's share of those trying to find the exit. Some are managing it. Most will not.
Sounds like an interesting topic for a book.
Maybe I'll finish it before I'm too old.
most excellent cougar, perhaps you can start with a short story?
can't remember the exact quote, but Burroughs once said something like that as we approach the speed of light, the only reference point we can hang onto is the ego (especially its perception of the "past" and its expectations for the "future", but that once we get there, the only way to pierce through the barrier is to release it, otherwise we are doomed to endlessly circle around the barrier for eternity.
apologies to Old Bill for mangling his words, but hope you can glean the idea.
The people who make a living studying it say what makes the human brain unique is its ability to host adaptive thinking.
But this only seems to happen when we are forced to do so by some sort of crisis or eureka event.
The rest of the time we have a mental tendency to enjoy the shelter of what is culturally and individually accepted as routine.
And I suppose I should add that most of the population is probably inherently incapable of doing so and is culled by natural selection, hence, unexpected evolutionary leaps.
Thank you for this. Now I know why I am so crazy. Only in my case as soon as I figured the game out and changed to the other door the rules are changed again and I would lose and have to adapt yet again!
We are all trapped in a very evil experiment. Tempted with phony or temporary rewards. Punished severely for any decision we make. We are prisoners in a prisoner of war camp and the guards are having their fun with us.
IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT! THERE ARE EVIL FORCES AT WORK AND SOMEDAY SOON THEIR TIME WILL RUN OUT!
LAUGH! IT DRIVES THEM CRAZY!!! LAUGH AT THEM! IT DRIVES THEM EVEN CRAZIER!!
Proof that Creationism might be real. I doubt evolution would take such a adaptive detour.
SUPERB!!!
I've never considered a monkey as a "companion animal", but I will definitely be down at the shelter this afternoon to adopt some un-neutered kleptulas. Back up a tanker of printer ink and I'll have a monkey mill cranking out hundreds of those critters shitting Benjamins. The neighbors (sheeple) will not realize that the cute monkeys are stealthily depleting their fiat accounts as they sleep. This is gonna be great!
Thanks WB7 for the business startup!
Wakanda,
Sorry to spoil your party, but a Franklin shitting monkey must first be activated by an Act of Congress chip which gives that Rothschild mascot the "authority" to defecate in that specific fashion. Without this Act of Congress chip, you'll just wind up with monkey shit all over your house.
Monkey or one of the lesser apes?? Either way, an embarrassment to his species.
Thanx William, we need the smiles.
<---- homo stupidius
<---- monkey
we catagorize - you decide
Great work, knew exactly what was coming when I saw the title. You never disappoint! BTW, love the tiny little blue ballsack. A true representation of the man.
Had I been drinking, you'd have owed me a keyboard since you gave no warning.
The pencil pissdick must have been too small for the pixels...,
best regards to your sexretary;)
Thanks I have my privates amassed at her rear flank ready to fire.
I think the days events are what is called "priced ink."
Said with your best Brooklyn accent.
- Ned
Dats da ticket.
I'd like to see a Bernanke Lightyear (QE to Infinity and Beyond!)
I have him in my files somewhere....
I just got a terrifying vision of the Banzai7 High-Energy Image Storage Facility, where there are fifty petabytes of pictures and graphics stored in aisle after aisle of humming blade racks, and Dr. William is at a four foot wide terminal saying "Dammit, where was that one of Bernanke in the pink sun-dress?"
I think i have that one as well...
Hey, that monkey kind of looks like Ben Bernanke!
your cartoons are highly anti-semitic how come we never see Geithner or Summers or Greenspan or Rubin in your "artwork"?? surely they had a hand in this mess... huh? oh, wait...sorry
You can't be serious...Geithner, Summers, Greenspan and Geithner not in my work?
Will somebody please do the necessary here.
I don't think he was WB. Just pointing out the obvious connection between them in a stealthy way.
total sarc - someone on one of your other posts accused you ... you da man
You weren't serious, and I didn't get enough sleep ;-)
Hey that Ben Bernanke kind of looks like a monkey.
I love it so much i adopted it.
Unlike the goose that lays the golden egg we have
the FED monkey who shits fiat trash.
Sorry to disagree, the Fed is eating the goose that lays the golden egg. And these eggheads do not understand their folly.
Love it!
This the best!!!!!
I fell off my chair when I saw it!!!
WB7 has done the responsible thing and warned the unwary about food and drink exclusions for some of his posts. Now the frag pattern is extended to chairs?
Perhaps a nice fouton? A bean-bag chair?
Bill, don't let OSHA or the EPA get to ya! ;-)
- Ned
Since they can't pronounce his Latin name, his fellow PhD board members just call him 'Beardo.'
Ispecies and Idreams...
Those pics pretty much sum it up.
http://goldisking.blogspot.ca/