So vaccines and airport searches are the new confession booths in the same way that God doesn't care if you tell some pedophile behind a screen about your dirty deeds last week but it makes both you and the authorities feel better? Makes sense.
Here's what doesn't make sense to me: How is our understanding of economics so far off? I have friends who've been predicting another great meltdown recession for 7 years and still nothing. We all know you can't just print money or the cost of goods will be that of the Weimar Republic but we're doing it and... nothing. Everybody's supposed to be out of work because bailout checks are a pittance and people are just buying flatscreen TVs and PS5s with them anyway but everyone I know says they're getting hit up by more recruiters than ever.
It's like the empire is over but we're all using Caesar's coins because we refuse to believe it, and until the local Visigoth, Frankish, or Saxon warlord starts demanding we pay him gold and wheat, we'll keep on speaking Latin and wearing togas in public.
as far as i can tell its a desperate forward lurch, a sort of burning up the self, eating up the bodies fat stores - as people are convinced things are normal, they act like its normal, things look normal, people feel normal and we rapidly accelerate towards an absolute economic catastrophe. Inflation is the highest its been in 13 years in the states. I think there will come a tipping point where its impossible to maintain the speed of consumption against the pure will required to pretend things are ok - but by then everything will be gutted, and we'll awaken to a nightmare. however, im not an economist
This makes a lot of sense. COVID ought to be a call for austerity. Instead, we're doing the opposite in flagrant denial. Everyone knows the Titanic is sinking, but they ordered the band to strike up another tune and the drinks are now practically free so we'd rather dance than fight over who gets into the lifeboats.
To continue my last historical comment, I recall that they kept holding gladiatorial games and distributing bread well after the fall of Rome. People didn't care about the state of their world so long as the show kept going on.
Get ready for a media blitz about the "kinder, gentler, more liberal" Taliban. We haven't found the Afghani Ho Chi Minh yet, but he'll be on the cover of Vanity Fair and Time Magazine soon. Bill Maher will fellate him live on prime time and he'll turn up in Switzerland to accept a Nobel Peace Prize. There's no way our psyches can stand losing a 20-year war to a bunch of uneducated tribal collectivists with good ol' family values and religious convictions. So instead we'll find the guy who leads them and make him into the reason they won.
"No way [insert anti-capitalist country] would have worked but for [Castro, Mao, Pol Pot]," Noam Chomsky will say. "This guy's no different."
Also, after 5 presidents have said we won't negotiate with terrorists, we're going to have to talk to Afghanistan, so the media is going to work double-time to make whoever provides our heroin seem like "one of us".
A painfully accurate summation of the current crossroads of marketing and brands. This ain’t the Coca Cola Warren Buffet grew up with. Or, well…
I bring news from afar - the horns of anonymous tw****r anons call for aid. I could not find anything on here here about one of your old threads, “no real people being online,” or something. You didn’t happen save anything on that did you? Damn the curse of a midwit memory.
Catching up on your poasts now. thought maybe you were boring and a loser now but this is a work of art. Sorry but you’re still failing to be worthless trash. Keep trying though. You’re GMI eventually.
"if you can't beat the censors it's not worth reading", but also "if you cant beat the censors, join them"
In retrospect I am dissatisfied with this article and I should have spent more time with it. But I stand by the core thesis
i want to move to a little cabin in the woods and Mail mentos and a&w root beer to scientists and bureaucrats
Minor annoyance: it's "ad campaign", not "add campaign".
I apologise
Minor annoyance: it's "aids campaign", not "add campaign".
So vaccines and airport searches are the new confession booths in the same way that God doesn't care if you tell some pedophile behind a screen about your dirty deeds last week but it makes both you and the authorities feel better? Makes sense.
Here's what doesn't make sense to me: How is our understanding of economics so far off? I have friends who've been predicting another great meltdown recession for 7 years and still nothing. We all know you can't just print money or the cost of goods will be that of the Weimar Republic but we're doing it and... nothing. Everybody's supposed to be out of work because bailout checks are a pittance and people are just buying flatscreen TVs and PS5s with them anyway but everyone I know says they're getting hit up by more recruiters than ever.
It's like the empire is over but we're all using Caesar's coins because we refuse to believe it, and until the local Visigoth, Frankish, or Saxon warlord starts demanding we pay him gold and wheat, we'll keep on speaking Latin and wearing togas in public.
as far as i can tell its a desperate forward lurch, a sort of burning up the self, eating up the bodies fat stores - as people are convinced things are normal, they act like its normal, things look normal, people feel normal and we rapidly accelerate towards an absolute economic catastrophe. Inflation is the highest its been in 13 years in the states. I think there will come a tipping point where its impossible to maintain the speed of consumption against the pure will required to pretend things are ok - but by then everything will be gutted, and we'll awaken to a nightmare. however, im not an economist
This makes a lot of sense. COVID ought to be a call for austerity. Instead, we're doing the opposite in flagrant denial. Everyone knows the Titanic is sinking, but they ordered the band to strike up another tune and the drinks are now practically free so we'd rather dance than fight over who gets into the lifeboats.
To continue my last historical comment, I recall that they kept holding gladiatorial games and distributing bread well after the fall of Rome. People didn't care about the state of their world so long as the show kept going on.
Last comment I promise:
Get ready for a media blitz about the "kinder, gentler, more liberal" Taliban. We haven't found the Afghani Ho Chi Minh yet, but he'll be on the cover of Vanity Fair and Time Magazine soon. Bill Maher will fellate him live on prime time and he'll turn up in Switzerland to accept a Nobel Peace Prize. There's no way our psyches can stand losing a 20-year war to a bunch of uneducated tribal collectivists with good ol' family values and religious convictions. So instead we'll find the guy who leads them and make him into the reason they won.
"No way [insert anti-capitalist country] would have worked but for [Castro, Mao, Pol Pot]," Noam Chomsky will say. "This guy's no different."
Also, after 5 presidents have said we won't negotiate with terrorists, we're going to have to talk to Afghanistan, so the media is going to work double-time to make whoever provides our heroin seem like "one of us".
A painfully accurate summation of the current crossroads of marketing and brands. This ain’t the Coca Cola Warren Buffet grew up with. Or, well…
I bring news from afar - the horns of anonymous tw****r anons call for aid. I could not find anything on here here about one of your old threads, “no real people being online,” or something. You didn’t happen save anything on that did you? Damn the curse of a midwit memory.
I'll look into it
In the meantime duckduckgo "dead Internet theory"
Catching up on your poasts now. thought maybe you were boring and a loser now but this is a work of art. Sorry but you’re still failing to be worthless trash. Keep trying though. You’re GMI eventually.