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Guest Post: Why Don't People See
I meet people that still believe that the world is fine. They believe things like:
- The US government has plenty of money.
- Government cares for its citizens.
- The economy cannot crash.
- We are not in a recession (Depression).
- The lives of their children will be better than their own.
- The government can continue to print money to fund promises they cannot afford.
Despite these untenable beliefs, these are not stupid people. Many are professionals who do quite well — doctors, lawyers, dentists, college professors, etc. They are not zombies, our walking dead, have no idea about what is happening around them no less the way things work in an economy, society or the world. It is our educated who should care yet seem to be oblivious to what lies ahead.
The ignorance and/or lack of concern of this group is perplexing and maddening. They are certainly capable of understanding. It is also in their interests to comprehend, as they are the ones who will lose the most. How does one open their eyes? What can they be shown to arouse them from their ignorance?
Sadly, I don’t have answers to these frustrating questions. It is not that others have not presented the information as much as these people refuse to acknowledge the implications. Are they all too busy? Are they idiot savants who are geniuses in their fields but not very smart away from it? Warnings come from many sources and from many different perspectives, yet they do not seem to penetrate the minds of those most capable of effecting change.
From a self-interest standpoint, this productive group should be the most concerned. After all, they are ground zero for the Socialist schemes that are destroying society. They are the ones that will be crushed in the redistribution dreams of our political class. Will they awaken too late? Or, will many of them just withdraw their productivity by retiring early, emigrating, etc.?
I don’t have answers to these questions, but I do know that this professional class is about to become prey for our predatory State. And, when that happens, they will hurt but not nearly as much as the rest of us.
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What is the first TV programming many of us were exposed to? Warner Bros cartoons. Bugs Bunny.
"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em". Never mind that it is a defeatist attitude... If something is repeated often enough it becomes true.
I blame Bugs Bunny.
"I want a car....chicks dig the car."
- Robin
River Da Nile still has much room on its banks. ..
It is our educated who should care yet seem to be oblivious to what lies ahead.
A core problem is the way in which they are educated. (And why the state wants to continually expand state-run education to further crowd out critical thinking).
Easy answer... An exceptionaly well organized and executed propaganda campaign.
Willful ignorance.
401k balances at new highs, time for the hedge fund sweep.
I don't mind at all that these people can't see. That just makes more people that I can laugh at when the shit goes down.
Fuck them - I'm not wasting time helping the blind see the light when all they need to do is open their deluded eyes. I'll spend my time making sure my ass is covered.
"That just makes more people that I can laugh at when the shit goes down."
It also makes more desperate people who will do anything to get your shit after the shit goes down.
If you walk around feeling like a contrarian, constantly questioning how people can mindlessly accept what is before them, and occasionally being chastised for having the gaul to state that things are in an irreversable mess, you're going to be just fine...
Most people hear only what they want to hear, while very few act on what they see. Denial.
"They are not zombies, our walking dead, have no idea about what is happening around them no less the way things work in an economy, society or the world."
Actually they are. From my cheap seats they are the most dangerous zombies of all.
Get over your delusion that education prevents zombification.
Yup. This, I think, is one of the reasons (the intellectual reason) that an aristocracy arose in Europe and became their tradition. Because not everyone is educable; not even every so called "intelligent" person. This doesn't mean that an aristocracy is the answer. I don't believe that and I'm not arguing that. It's just that I think I understand part of the rationale for that system better now the more I observe human behavior.
Education [in today's world] = INDOCTRINATON..................Stop.
While there may never be real Zombies, its not as difficult to visualize starving mobs of citizens, unable to afford healthcare, walking the streets as a mob in search of food. Sort of like Greece today.
The human need to "fit in", stick with the herd, and not "rock the boat" are more powerful influencing factors on most individuals than intelligence and logic are.
I'd add that our modern media techniques, pharma drugs and other shit like fluoride further accentuates the basic human need to fit in while lessening the influence of basic human instincts (that include intelligence). Most people are losing touch with their basic human instincts and intuitions.
To those of who are aware, it seems so bloody obvious that one cannot fathom how ordinary people can't see what is painted right in front of their faces every day. I assume its the need to fit in at all costs to the established opinion, ideology and culture that overrides most peoples intelligence when they form opinions.
"To those of who are aware, it seems so bloody obvious that one cannot fathom how ordinary people can't see what is painted right in front of their faces every day."
I think that for some of the unaware, it's a matter of not seeking or if seeking, not knowing what to look for. Kind of like this test with radiologists "Can You See the Dancing Gorilla?" "The majority of them looked directly at the gorilla for extended periods of time. They just don't see it,' said Trafton Drew, who ran the study at Brigham and Women's Hospital."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277759/Can-dancing-gorilla-New-...It could be in genes and some low % of ppl might not have that trait activated. Recently there was a study of mouse tunnels that showed a link between tunnel characteristics (long/short, many tunnels/single, escape route/no escape) and mouses' genes.
nice to know all the joobux borrowed into existence are being spent on important things like habitrails...
Ignorance is Strength
quote 1984 newspeak
Ignorance is Strength
Yes, they believe so...
And they will defend their ignorance.
+1
a down-arrow, really? The truth hurt someone out there....
This will all sort itself out soon enough. Sure, there's going to be running and screaming and mahem and fire and explosions and muder and rape and pillage and bullets flying all over and starvation, disease, pestilence and plague. . .but it will happen, get ready for it.
That is how history has always sorted things out!
But with 2 minor exceptions, history has never done it with nuclear and biological weapons of absolute destruction.
And that rumbling from the East is not Russian tanks, and those bombs from the American planes filling the skies are only temporary, so stay in your Bunkers and wait for the new Economic Wonder Weapon from the Fed to save us.
Because Control. Because sunday school. Don't question, don't rock boat. Obey.
Because the peer review system is a grand circle jerk
they have an interest in the system operating the way it does, only when it becomes hard for them will they see. And only when it becomes hard for these people, then you'll see "change" begin to get a foothold
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/200311--.htm
docile as hindu cows
They are zombies of our time, but instead of gettin an axe in the head they get killed by fast "food", vaccines, obesity, pharma drugs and all sorts of radiation. And they love it.
You're likely to run across three types of passenger on the Titanic...
We could ask smokers - many of whom are very intelligent and educated - about why they smoke, given all we know about that hobby.
Pictures of painful, early strangulation death don't phase them.
So it is with the "everything's fine, experts agree!" crowd. Show them all the simple math & charts & historic examples you want.
"It's fine! We'll all be just fine!" is what you get.
My sister is one of those. I have simply given up. (and stocked up)
Good example, I come here everyday to read the stories and worry about the future, then go out and shorten mine with a smoke.
24 days and counting without one.
You're past week 1 thats the hard part.
I certainly hope so.
Take up cigars fuu, they are not habit forming.
Iv'e smoked two a day for the past 30 years and never picked up the habit !!!
Fucking evil Hulk is evil.
OMG, had no idea my wife was posting here...
..and how long are those cigars?
Hang in there!, your are doing great!, are over the worst part, I know, been there about 15 year ago.
Can we stop with the smart stupid paradigm, I especailly hate "smart money" as if GS is the "smart money" and the rest of us are dolts-it's laughable.
Intelligence has nothing to do with how much money you make or your occupation.
"smart money" should be changed to "insider money".
'dumb money" should be changed to "insider's money supply"
No, it's apathy. They simply don't care because they don't have to care yet. They have life in excess. That's about to change.
Those smart rascals are very comfortable with the status quo, it has done them well. They are happy and prosperous within it.
It is the down-trodden that look around, realize things aren't so ducky and begin to smell the coffee. They get the majority of the attention from law enforcement, they sense the cold wind blowing.
If I was a billionaire drifting around the caribbean on my 300 foot floating palace, I'd be less likely to question everything, too.
As an owner of a number of successful businesses I have done well BUT that does not mean that I cannot see how fucked up the system is ... and that it is going to collapse
A guy that is a success would dread a collapse, he might lose all he worked for. While you can see it coming, you won't tell your customers that. Will you?
People that are already neck deep in the shit will look forward to change, hoping the change helps their situation somehow. (It will only make things worse, but they want it.)
Hopie changie was figured out by the dems, previously it was Clinton's 'I feel your pain'.
You don't think that members of the Jewish community didn't try to warn their people in the 1930s about what would happen to them?
Yet 6-9million Jews still ended up being slaughtered. And tens of millions of other Europeans lost their lives.
Forget about trying to warn people. Sort your family out. It's the best you can do.
6 to 9 million Jews killed ?!?!? More like 200 thousand
So not really all that bad then?
Your honor.....the prosecution rests it's case.
"Yet 6-9million Jews still ended up being slaughtered. And tens of millions of other Europeans lost their lives"
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By the end of the century, the story will be up to 100 million... They add a few million on a year [you know ~ inflation & all]...
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And Israeli is doing the same thing - see the Israeli Generals Son http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TOaxAckFCuQ
Notarocketscientist thats exactly right
exept Israel has done it many more years,and most people look the other way because they are the perpetual victims
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/
Notarocketscientist thats exactly right
exept Israel has done it many more years,and most people look the other way because they are the perpetual victims
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/18/israeli-soldier-posts-instag...
So who were these Jeremiahs? I am pretty familiar with the period between the wars and I can name exactly two people who tried to warn the world about the Third Reich, both English.
One was Winston Churchill who was denounced as a war monger and spent ten years in the political dog house. The other was Beverley Nichols who wrote Cry Havoc! and other anti war books and magazine articles between 1926 and 1939.
If there were any others I would like to know who they were.
Most people are inherently lazy. They have a general perplexitynot propensity to avoid situations, and also layer responsibilities on others.
The two fucktards that red arrowed me for upvoting Cunny are prime examples!
It is the combination of the normalcy bias and their not wanting to believe that everything can easily be lost. The shame of it is that with some advanced planning they won't face being crushed. Oh well. Just means I can more easily barter for medical services with canned peas.
Cognitive dissonance
The theory of cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions, adding new ones to create a consistent belief system, or alternatively by reducing the importance of any one of the dissonant elements.[1] It is the distressing mental state that people feel when they "find themselves doing things that don't fit with what they know, or having opinions that do not fit with other opinions they hold." [4] A key assumption is that people want their expectations to meet reality, creating a sense of equilibrium.[5] Likewise, another assumption is that a person will avoid situations or information sources that give rise to feelings of uneasiness, or dissonance.[1]
Cognitive dissonance theory explains human behavior by positing that people have a bias to seek consonance between their expectations and reality. According to Festinger, people engage in a process he termed "dissonance reduction", which can be achieved in one of three ways: lowering the importance of one of the discordant factors, adding consonant elements, or changing one of the dissonant factors.[6]This bias sheds light on otherwise puzzling, irrational, and even destructive behavior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
"these are not stupid people"
Stupid is as stupid does.
My grandpa, (b1900) told me it was the same in 1929.
Now, think 1929X10.
19,290...damn!
Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses and i will blend them with MSG and call it Soylent Green.
As long as there's plenty of duck sauce to go with it.
I blame debt-money..............MSM never talks about or mentions this...............gee, I wonder why?
Denial is a powerful emotion. And when the downside process unfolds, denial will harden even more.
It's going to be a shitstorm when this all comes to a head.
While the article is about the US, I have seen this many times with apparantly well educated and travelled people in the last few years in Belgium (where I live, but was not raised). There is a reverence / respect for a person's bank manager, general practictioner, royal family, the weak elements of the press and politicians etc (tho' after the child abuse scandals there is somewhat less respect for the Roman Catholic church). When I have questioned this, the standard reply is that they were taught as children to have respect for these professions and in turn to accept what they are told without questioning......
well, y'know what Terence Mckenna says: Culture is your operating system
a meme that works, globally. . .
You are misinformed. You know why?
These people you describe will do very well in a socialistic state. Take a look at other socialist states and see who comes home the winner as the government pays these types well and offers great benefits. Much the same way the US does.
Once a professional is locked up in this scheme, many making a quarter of a million of more a year whereas their counterparts in the private sector have to really be lucky or work hard to make the same income.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
studied this at school before education system in uk dumbed down
may as well add
Resistance is Futile
It's because the doomsday sayers have been around since the beginning of civilization yet doomsday has never come. According to most on ZH, the market and civilization was supposed to crash years ago, yet it continues to grow and we're back to the levels of 2007. That doesn't mean that the doomsday sayers are wrong, its just that they sound like the boy who cried wolf. How are we supposed to believe in something that we have never witnessed despite all the warnings of its impending destruction? Simple, we don't worry about it and carpe diem!
You should be thankful that enough doomsday preppers were ready for the Black Plague several centuries ago or there would be no Western Civilization.
You should be thankful that enough doomsday preppers were ready for the Black Plague several centuries ago or there would be no Western Civilization.
For sure... I think many of us thought (and likely discussed) that the end was upon us back in 2008. The Euro is toast, the dollar will die, we will have a failed treasury auction, gold will explode, etc. etc. etc. Our response, "all they have done is kicked the can through central bank intervention... nothing is solved, the crash will be yet even worse"... but man... if I were in their shoes, I can understand the interest in taking the position, "meh... that krid guy is a freak".
Exactly. Both the illusion and the truth are real. Disregard either at your own peril.
What I am saying is... Sure, build self-reliance with the tangible assets and skills to survive the worst case. But if you haven't been (for example) dollar cost averaging savings into diversified financial instruments, or BTFD, over the past 5 years, you have missed out on solid gains.
In the end, it's almost never the thing you are most worried about (or the one you see coming) that gets you.
Oh poor Israel baby!!
http://nhregister.com/articles/2013/02/18/news/doc512225815a0f7106173189...
I wonder how much his slut fund is? Yes, I said slut not slush.
Pass this video around - the Israeli Generals Son http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TOaxAckFCuQ
In Wiemar Germany the professional class took it on the chin during the great inflation. They are busy people and have yet to know bad times. They hear the story but it hasn't happened to them ... can't be possible.
The answer: behavioral economics... the Sunstein's "nudge". It is quite effective.
combine that with Georgie Soros' "reflexivity" and you've got quite a powerful cocktail.
Deep down they know something is wrong, but they do not know what they can do to fix it. So they feel better by just ignoring it, and hoping someone else will fix it.
If people are making $100K or more and things are fairly comfortable - there is no problem.
Govt unionized worker and the checks keep coming - no problems.
The 700,000 or so govt or contratcor defense workers in the Beltway area who have jobs threated by sequestration whine to the Senate and some deal will be made.
The govt workers, teachers, cops, professors, fireman, union members know they will be taken care off, they got their stuff and life is good. They will fight to maintain the statis quo.
When it all starts to fall apart - then people will be fighting over scarce resoruces. It will be very ugly.
Resistance is futile. Comply.
I'm trying to learn the lessons of history, but I don't like what they are telling me.
I was driving along yesterday, thinking that presumably, at some point, people will start voting for candidates who are opposed to government that spies on its people, and steals their savings, and taxes them til they bleed, and deprives them of their inaliable rights. So we should be OK?
But then I remembered the history books. A government like that doesn't want to see opponents elected, so they doctor the results, or frame them for something petty, or make up something big, or just jail them.
Plus ca change then. Or does it happen so slowly people with blind trust in their DNA don't notice.
Why? They do not have the time to sort it all out. I find with honorable professionals that the more time they put into their work typically the more success they have. When a person is applying himself to his profession there is very little time for learning about philosophy(what is and what ought to be) They rely on intellectuals for that work. The intelectuals who are primarily employed by the ivy league schools were corrupted in the early 1900's The philosophy of altruism replaced the previous philosophy of work hard for what was valuable to you. The philosophy of altruism was then disseminated through media primarily the New York Times which is the source for the rest of the US media. This led to the election of politicians who further funded the propagation of altruism(sacfrice of self for the greater good). The philosophy is so embedded in our culture now that unless someone does the work and is able to disseminate a rational philosophy that is both moral and practical people will have to accept the outcomes of their current philosophy which is death and destruction.
It's easier to be blind than worried.
Belief trumps facts in the fundamentalist USA.
These people are making the theoretically not unreasonable assumption that if the US and/or global economy were in severe trouble, out of the thousands of government-employed economists, thousands of politicians, and thousands of analysts and economists employed by mainstream media outlets, at least SOMEBODY would take notice and alert the public. Obviously in reality this IS an unreasonable assumption, with very few exceptions.
"These people are making the theoretically not unreasonable assumption..."
I argue their assumption is totally unreasonable as there was no main stream media alert about the massive fraud in MBS, derivitives, and mortage orginination that lead to the 2007-2008 crash. Yet, after the fact the sheeple are again willfully ignorant of their surroundings for to openly acknowledge the current situation is adminssion that they have ignored their patriotic duties.
All the information is readily available. Watch Bill Maher challenge wall street ho erin burnette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTe2uGlBYiU
Complacency!
I see this same phenom. One way I'm trying to explain it to them is in terms of statistics. Many of these people see the post-WW II era as the norm. It isn't! Tyranny is the global norm for human history.
This post-WW II era of relative calm is at least two (maybe three) standard deviations from the norm. Perpetual peace, prosperity, and freedom are NOT the norm. We need to expect that the wrold will return to the norm soon.
And the complacency of these people is what will lead us to that norm. Complacency CAUSES volatility because it leads to ignoring the risk, no matter how in-your-face they are. And volatility leads back to calm eventually! This is one of the lessons of Reinhart and Rogoff's irreplacable book, This Time Is Different!
You think the post WW2 era was free, prosperous, calm and peaceful? Really? Those of us who lived through it have different memories.
I don't like the way these people think, but I surely want to try some of the stuff they've smoking all along
"The government can continue to print money to fund promises they cannot afford"
If the government can print money it can afford anything, obviously.
Oh, really? So why don't they just print twice as much and make everything twice as good?
The government doesn't print money - it borrows money. And ask yourself in whose best interest it is to have an bloated, indebted government.
If stranded on an island who would you want as companions?:
A.) A lawyer, economist, and a politician
B.) A carpenter, hunter and a farmer
so......
Female carpenter, and farmer, I'll do the hunting
Yes, because the island will just be conveniently stocked with game. And let me guess--fresh water, too! It's one of those AWESOME deserted islands...
crabs & rats most likely
Wasn't Jessica Rabbit available?
Everytime I get in a discussion about the unsustainable system with the professional deniers, it always gets to the point:
"I am making money in the stock market"
This is the wall of invincibility of their argument. As long as we manipulate the value of corporate equity, the system works.
Follow that up with the scam that GDP=quality of life and we are all lemmings.
T
Well, if the price of stocks increases, and the Dow increases, even if only a few stocks on the dow are responsible for the average increase, obviously the economy is well and we who think there is a problem is are uninformed.
Some people aren't good with sarcasm, so expect some backlash to your approach.
I have no problem with the main thrust of this article--that otherwise intelligent people are unable to see the financial/societal implosion that appears to be lying dead ahead--but then, without fail, the author starts beating on the dead horse of "socialism" and "redistribution of wealth." Jesus CHRIST. If you actually think that there's a cabal of "socialists" out there who are trying to fashion a new society in which the wealth of the rich is redistributed to the workers, then please don't be too insulted when I laugh in your face. There's no grand fucking socialist plot under way--the only thing that's under way is the U.S. government and the corporations desperately sucking the last drops of blood from the carcass of the American people in order to SAVE AND ENRICH THEMSELVES. Do you really think these people are SOCIALISTS??? LOLOLOLOLOL...really??? Forgive me, but I really don't remember the "socialist redistribution" meme being tossed around prior to, oh, say...NOVEMBER 2008, when the thieves with an "R" on their flag--who had been raping the American public with multitrillion-dollar wars of aggression--passed the baton off to the thieves with a "D" on their flag. You see, when you start blaming our problems on "socialists," that just lets intelligent people know that all you are is a standard-issue moron who thinks that it matters which political party is sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. IT DOESN'T! What don't you get? Democrats, Republicans, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Northerners, Southerners, Jews, Christians--they're ALL THE SAME. They're FUCKING THIEVES. Do everyone a favor and stop with the noble capitalists vs. evil socialists bullshit. It's just boring and stupid...
Socialists don't mind being rich, its everyone else they want to keep poor. They may not be true believers of Marx themselves, but Marxism is the mechanism they are using to take over the world.
the government is more smarter and big to run my life
Here are a few more stupid beliefs running around in this country:
1. The wars we conduct are honorable and protect our freedom because if we don't fight them over there we'll be fighting them over here.
2. America will be the next Saudi Arabia of oil due to tar sands, oil shales and fracking Ponzi schemes. (This belief proves we are a nation of math and science illiterates.)
3. Increased security and surveillance makes us safer and more free.
The the only thing exceptional about the US anymore is that its people have become exceptionally stupid.
You forgot to mention Green Energy providing all of our energy needs. (The only Green Energy we are likely to see is Soylent Green.)
Yeah, I am forming the Libertarian Party and I get all head nods until the "I just dont like their view on Defense."
This isnt defense. Fortunately one guy was a bee keeper and I asked, if you get stung does it make sense to take a bat to the hive?
EKM understands primary dealers, and their shell games( EKM is a good person). I understand inflation, and it's shell game.
The shit hits the fan when the serfs get hungry! I don't care how inflation is spun, ( core>non-core) I Have to put gas in my car and go grocery shopping.
Even the {diehard} liberals can't argue the fact that [things] are much more expensive, then they were 4 years ago!
YC, you call me? ;)
Just post , or offer up a forum chat. You're good humor. Thanks for the red arrow.
I meet people that still believe that the world is fine. They believe things like:
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Stop-it................you'll make Kito cry like a little girly-boy
I doubt kito is even around...
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I'll lay odds that he's at Men's Wearhouse or Jos A Bank pouring thru the racks & taking advantage of the 'BUY ONE GET 7 FREE' President's Day sale...
+1 FS
At the time of this comment, we're on PAGE 5 of comments [which are largely of the 'beat around bush'/'beat your meat' variety]
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Everything I stated in my above comment was FACT... Most of it was predicated on the first item [which is easy to verify as FACT by simply looking at the list of 'shareholders' in the Federal Reserve]...
The premise of this thead was 'WHY PEOPLE DON'T SEE'... The answer is because they're continuously urged, persuaded, bribed, blackmailed, & even MURDERED to NOT look...
Francis, where were you this weekend, Simon was sitting around for a good half hour waiting for the cream of mushroom to come out! He finally went in to see about it himself determined to serve it on his own but he made a terrible mess, there was terrine everywhere. Luckily at least Simon thought ahead and had someone there to clean it up! I keep telling Simon all of this can be avoided by flying in his own trained servants from Chile but he keeps bitching about how his G5 only seats 12. You just cant help some people, you know?
So did you check out Stiff Upper Lips?
Haven't gotten to 'Stiff Upper Lips' yet... I spent a lot of time putting lettuce, arugula, & spinach in rows... & otherwise made [& Masoned] a couple of batches of 'marinara sauce'...
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Sunday ~ I was watching your boy Charl Schwartzel playing well, but missing some key putts down the stretch at Riviera [where I used to play ~ back in the day]... I like that guy CS... I'd put him in my Top 5 to get his 2nd green jacket at the Bobby Jones shindig in April...
Yeah I caught the highlights of that, shame he missed that putt- I definitely think hes a guy to watch though. Come to think of it SA has produced quite a few golf prodigies (Gary Player, Oosthuizen etc.), it is a fairly popular sport here because the weaer is so good and golf courses everywhere.
I usually play here, its about 10 mins from where I live: http://www.steenberghotel.com/golf/course/
I spent the weekend repeatedly spraying my cannabis indica plants with organic neem oil because I have contracted a terrible scale insect infestation...
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=224
Its nearly impossible to get rid of these little fuckers. I think I am winning the battle though...any tips guys?
Dude have you ever by any chance seen a little movie called 'A New Leaf' starring Walter Matthau? Its one of my favs and I was thinking about it while I was recommending stiff upper lips, because as hilarious as it is A New Leaf is probably the very best upper class satire Ive ever seen. Matthau is a true blue-blooded old NY'er who, to his bottomless disbelief has spent his entire inheritance, so he must find a rich bachelorette to marry and kill her for the money. It is fucking priceless, nobody could play the guy getting the chair pulled out from under him like Matthau...
You missed 'Els'...
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Haven't seen the Matthau movie... I don't know if I said this b4 but I was in SA, twice, [both times before Apartheid was ended, but during the de Klerk tenure]... Was mostly in Jo-Burg, Durbin, Port Elizabeth, & CT...
- I actually like Jo-Burg, but, partly because what I was doing, the altitude got to me...
- Durbin was humid &, kinda, seedy... I couldn't put my finger on the 'seedy' influence, but it seemed Indian to me...
- Can't hardy remember PE
- LOVED Cape Town... It's still one of my favorite 3 cities in the world [with Sydney & SF]...
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Was also in Mauritius [once ~ on a trip which was different from the 'continent' trips described before]... I happened to be doing something in collaboration with a a film crew that had a bunch of FTV models doing a photoshoot [there was this one German girl ~ who I spent most of my time with ~ who could never seem to keep her clothes on, PUBLIC or PRIVATE]... Needless to say it was:
- a beautiful location
- a lot of nudity
- a lot of sex
But for some reason I had oily shit for 2 staight weeks on account, I think, of the fish that I ate a lot...
See The Israeli General's Son - pass this far and wide http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TOaxAckFCuQ
Sure. here's another. Adolph Hitler was seriously injured during the Great War, so we know that he would never really start another war. It's just talk.
it goes from being not bad to really stupid in one seond with:
From a self-interest standpoint, this productive group should be the most concerned. After all, they are ground zero for the Socialist schemes that are destroying society.
please tell me what a single thing mentioned has anything to do with soialism, it doesn't. the only thing I see is the writer doesn't even understande what the term means
ialism refers to an economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy.[1] "Social ownership" may refer to cooperative enterprises, common ownership, state ownership, or citizen ownership of equity.[2] There are many varieties of socialism and there is no single definition encapsulating all of them.[3] They differ in the type of social ownership they advocate, the degree to which they rely on markets or planning, how management is to be organised within productive institutions, and the role of the state in constructing socialism.[4]
A socialist economic system would consist of a system of production and distribution organized to directly satisfy economic demands and human needs, so that goods and services would be produced directly for use instead of for private profit[5]
'A socialist economic system would consist of a system of production and distribution organized to directly satisfy economic demands and human needs, so that goods and services would be produced directly for use instead of for private profit ...'
Yeah, and that's the problem, dumbass.
Singapore is probably the most socialist nation on earth. Yet there are plenty of extremely wealthy people there - more millionaires per capita than Hong Kong. And there are no people starving on the street or going without medical treatment. They actually are in it as one big community.
While not perfect (what is?) this is a pretty good economic model.
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We have allowed the liberalization of our educational system to remove basic critical thinking as the foundational aspect of our education.
Oh, people will talk about it, like it's still there, but ask them how they learned "critical thinking" and they will give you blank stares, as they wish to believe their enormous 'intellect' just bestows this trait upon them. And not you, of course.
What has occurred is that our educational institutions have stopped teaching basic logic in elementary school.
This instills the foundation of the basic ideas of critical thinking.
Without it, we have what we have now.
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If the shelves on your grocery store are empty, you are living on a deserted island without food, if electricity fails, you are living on a deserted island without water, if you are living in the suburbs, you are living on a deserted island without game. Deserted islands are closer than you think...
People who lived in the old USSR felt that everything was normal until it was not--I remember in 1991 in Moscow seeing old people begging in the streets and having to sell old family possessions, saw lots of people who had advanced degrees in physics having to sell at the local markets in order to survive. Those types of people had very good positions in the old system.
I read your site every day, and I also believe 4/6 of the statements you list.
The US government has plenty of money.
The government can continue to print money to fund promises they cannot afford.
Government cares for its citizens.
We are not in a recession (Depression).
Disbelieve: The economy cannot crash.
The lives of their children will be better than their own.
The government is the source of money through the Federal Reserve, which they largely have control of. All promises are denominated in dollars, the definition of which is set by the US government.
GDP growth has been positive if slow for the past several years. There was a slight contraction last quarter, so we may be in a recession, however that can only be known after the fact.
As for the government caring for its citizens, the government is a faceless collective, a process. As such it is incapable of human feelings such as caring. However the individuals within government by and large do care for the citizens. The overall process is designed to provide for citizens. Government can fail to work as designed, and fail to function, but overall our republican system of government results in positive outcomes for the country at large.
Ravi Batra wrote a book, The Great Depression of 1990. It didn't happen. In 2000, there was no Great Depression. In 2010, there still lwas no Great Depression, though there is a depression. In 2013, the DOW is at its all time high, the S&P is at its all toime high, even if the NasdaQ is a few thousand points below its all time high. From 1932, it took to 1953 for the DOW to reach its 1929 high.
The banking system hasn't collapsed like 1933, people are still buying iPhones. The great crash that was supposed to have happened a long time ago already, still hasn't happened. After a while, people doubt the prognosticators of doom.
When Batra wrote his book in the late 1980's, the 1920's credit boom had not even occurred yet. Harry Dent or others say a 90% drop in the stock market is coming. The market is due to get the smirk wiped off its face, but any more i don't see the market as revisiting S&P 666, let alone a 90% drop.
Even with gasoline at 4.25 and expected to climb higher where i live, there was a lot of traffic on saturday.
Look around again. We had two people working in the household and we are heading back to one. In the Great Depression there was only one working so when he was laid off the family was done.
This is a hidden depression for that reason. But we have been in it sice 2007 most likely.
it's because we Americans have been told all our lives that we are the best of breed; the biggest, smartest, fastest, strongest and brightest. We kick ass in the Olympics, and we will most certainly die with the most toys, therefore, we win!
And now, with the two-time election of a half black man to be POTUS, we are the most "enlightened" people on earth, too. There is no end to our greatness. We acheive great things simply by waking each morning.
There isn't an enemy on the planet who can bring us down. The only way we could be brought to our knees is if we became lazy, slothful, greedy, complacent, ignorant, careless, reckless and overspent.
Oh shit.
You almost sound as if you believe the shit you just posted
couple of problems with this article..
1) denies an active, on many many fronts, architecture behind this.. this isnt some random result, or choice of the masses.. there is evidence this was the desired result.. search Dowd Commission... or CFR/ Tri Lats, founding documents, etc.. search and watch.. "Century of Self" especiually part 1, "Happiness Machines".. the influence of Bernays, etc... this is NOT accidental freinds.. "Secrets of the Federal reserve" by Mullins... its freely downloadable...
2) the use of the bogeyman term socialism. reeks of uninformed. Socialism is NOT the design. All government forms, beyond the de-crentralization model of the Constitution.. are merely means to the same end.
Any path that creates centralization of Authority is explicitly meant to support... Monopolization. THAT is the end state. Think W Va coal mine as the standard.
Lastly, anyone that supposes Obummer, or obushy, etc.. are responsible.. trivializes the fight. No one person is the could possibly be with out a massive pyramid of support behind them.
a fight is first lost in the mind, either through ignorance or fear of pain/loss
folks in spite of what you say you will go down ingloriously like droner the rogue cop, how can you possibly resist apache attack helicopters abrahams tanks etc how will you aim when the lrad makes your ears bleed.
nobody will cry for you as you will be cast as a domestic terrorist
germany endured serious destruction but once uncle A was gone the resistance crumbled, once uncle joe was dead the repression could ease. there is no single point of focus that will change the direction the west is going
no revolution has ever been put into effect by the under or lower /working classes they will be to busy turning on each other
i struggle to see how this will turn out, just like how could anybody in 1935 imagine what would happen in the next 10 years
50million dead
6-10 million people worked to death/gassed taking into account all the other groups lined up for extermination
20-30,000 burnt to death/suffocated in dresden on 1 attack
nanking massacre
industrial scale rape as a weapon
This is probably a good time to revisit The Israeli General's Son - exposing the war crimes that Israel has been commiting for decades http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TOaxAckFCuQ
These wars are just the warm up for the next one: I looked, and there was a pale horse, and its rider's name was Death. Hell followed him. They were given power over one-fourth of the earth to kill people using wars, famines, plagues, and the wild animals on the earth.
WW2 50 million die
WW3 1.5 billion die
I need some "Rick Santelli" rants . Happy Birthday George, I'll bet you are rolling over in your grave?
Below is an SP500 weekly.
http://bullandbearmash.com/chart/sp500-weekly-closes-seventh-week-row/
The MSM plays this out as the next leg up. This is in line with wall street - endless bull market.
Worth noting - the SP500 was at the same level in 1998 and in 2011. But the MSM does not report this type of stuff that often.
In California, we are already seeing the effect of tax policy on the medical profession:
1) They are actually predicting a shortage of doctors (who will be replaced by nurse practitioners).
2) Doctors fresh out of medical school, particularly those married to other doctors, can not afford to come to California. The starting salary is about $150K. A 300K total makes them Obamillionaires. It also puts them in the 13.5% California tax bracket. They probably have $500k of student loans to pay off. The difference in take home pay between LA and Houston is probably around $25K.
3) Doctors in their 50's, who are earning a lot more, are moving out of state. They realize that they can save an extra $25k a year for their retirement.
People will act rationally when they are forced to.
"People will act rationally when they are forced to." - quote of the day :)
People will be carried by inertia for as long as they can "make the ends meet"(whatever that means in their respective context) only when that no longer works will they take corrective action
... by which time we may be beyond the point of no return.
how many got aroused in 1933 germany?
"Are they idiot savants" - I think that is 50% of the answer, most ppl in upper/middle class didn't get there by being smart just lucky
The other half would not be a 1 point answer but I think most of the ppl who are smart and knowledgeable enough are too tied to the system and even thinking about it going broke or turning on them is too scary so they just ignore it. They have children, mortgages, car loans, vacation plans etc., thinking that all this would go away is a scary prospect. Job/Family stress completes the picture nobody is going to willingly add to their stress if they don't see a reasonable way of making a difference.
"We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom."
- Slavoj Žižek
The people that are in charge of the US have the same outlook as California. It doesn't matter how much we squeeze, California is so super awesome that no one will ever leave and the party will go on forever.
The US is so super awesome, no matter how much we tax, regulate, and stomp on the Constitution, it doesn't matter because where elese are you going to go?
At the end of the day, 90% of our ignorance I blame on the Media and Hollywood, and it's a feature not a bug.