Greetings good citizen,
Um, markets ‘slid’ today giving back their inexplicable gains they made earlier this week.
Funny little game these Wall Streeters’ play but it has zero relationship to the ‘real’ economy.
Which brings us back to the basic Human social contract
What’s that you ask?
It is an important understanding between people that libertarians and the like say is a fairy tale.
Anyone who advocates ‘bootstrapping’ and YOYOism likes to pretend the human social contract doesn’t exist.
Ironically, it was the violating of this allegedly non-existent contract that resulted in ‘The Terror’ of the French Revolution.
Let us take a moment to lay down some background first:
What we see here are the emerging effects of a people who tap dance on a landmine every day.
They don’t know from one day to the next if they will be able to support themselves.
Now our Libbies and their kissing cousins the Conservo-loonies, bootstrappers one and all, are calling the appearance of this malaise ‘a weakness’ in the individuals displaying the symptoms.
This would be incorrect. The reaction is caused by the violation of the human social contract, the REASON WHY we DON’T KILL ONE ANOTHER ON SIGHT!
Just stop for a second and let that sink in.
Why DON’T WE kill one another on sight? We are the ‘alpha predator’, it’s only natural that we ‘ought to’ eliminate competitors from our turf.
But wait, something’s wrong here. We are only top dog when we act ‘in concert’. All alone we are easily killed by goddamn viruses!
Hell, if it got the jump on you, a dog could kick your ass and kill you. In fact, on your own, there is a long list of wildlife that has the upper hand in a one on one encounter.
So we don’t dare to kill one another on sight. We only prevail in, er, ‘packs’.
But why do incidents like the terror occur?
Well, under those circumstances one ‘pack’ of humans oversteps it’s bounds and neglects its responsibility to the other…’packs’, if you will.
They take all of the ‘good stuff’ for themselves, leaving next to nothing for anyone else.
Now, the ‘unwritten contract’ states that we suffer or prosper TOGETHER.
But the greedheads don’t like that idea. They subscribe to the ‘I was here first’ principle.
If there is any suffering to be done it will fall upon those who didn’t grab what they could, when they could.
But that’s not the deal!
The deal is share and share alike!
So you can see how these little ‘impasses’ end up in the streets running in blood.
Because the people, looking for their share, now have to go out and take it from those who took it unjustly.
And yeah, it’s still ‘crowd vs. crowd.’
And my how that crowd has grown under the false prosperity sown to hide the theft.
Worse, it’s a not a question of ‘if’ we are about to hit the wall but ‘when’?
Again there will be cries of shock, ‘why is this happening’ when we saw it begin all of those years ago…and stood motionless as they whispered ‘it’s different this time’.
It’s NEVER different…and it’s not different this time.
What has to happen, since they pretty much walked away unscathed the last time, is they have to be, er, ‘taught’ not to violate the contract all over again.
Like they were taught in 1789…and why we are here again so soon after 1929 because we DIDN’T ‘make them pay’ then.
We won’t enjoy that luxury this time. Although that’s what they’re counting on, that we’re ‘too civilized’ to punish them…the way that they punish tin pot dictators who object to their ‘machinations’.
We are rapidly approaching a time when we can no longer tolerate the few to prey upon the rest of us.
Those who fail to appreciate the benefits of the human social contract will have those benefits (forcibly) withdrawn from them.
Like it or not, we are all in this together.
Thus do we need to decide, together, what we should do next.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Um, markets ‘slid’ today giving back their inexplicable gains they made earlier this week.
Funny little game these Wall Streeters’ play but it has zero relationship to the ‘real’ economy.
Which brings us back to the basic Human social contract
What’s that you ask?
It is an important understanding between people that libertarians and the like say is a fairy tale.
Anyone who advocates ‘bootstrapping’ and YOYOism likes to pretend the human social contract doesn’t exist.
Ironically, it was the violating of this allegedly non-existent contract that resulted in ‘The Terror’ of the French Revolution.
Let us take a moment to lay down some background first:
Japan is quite different from the U.S. and Europe, with a homogeneous populace and a culture rooted in Confucian values and social hierarchies. Despite the many differences, including definitions of depression, I think it is self-evident that the rising insecurity and workplace changes in Japan result from long-term economic stagnation.
I suspect "new-type depression" may have some universal aspects, as rising insecurity and new demands in the workplace characterize Western economies as well.
New-type depression--NTD--(also called modern-type) is not a classic depression. It does not respond to anti-depressant medications, and it is triggered by events in the workplace--usually criticism from superiors. Those who exhibit the symptoms--difficulty focusing at work, physical symptoms of stress, etc.--tend to be in their 20s and 30s.
What we see here are the emerging effects of a people who tap dance on a landmine every day.
They don’t know from one day to the next if they will be able to support themselves.
Now our Libbies and their kissing cousins the Conservo-loonies, bootstrappers one and all, are calling the appearance of this malaise ‘a weakness’ in the individuals displaying the symptoms.
This would be incorrect. The reaction is caused by the violation of the human social contract, the REASON WHY we DON’T KILL ONE ANOTHER ON SIGHT!
Just stop for a second and let that sink in.
Why DON’T WE kill one another on sight? We are the ‘alpha predator’, it’s only natural that we ‘ought to’ eliminate competitors from our turf.
But wait, something’s wrong here. We are only top dog when we act ‘in concert’. All alone we are easily killed by goddamn viruses!
Hell, if it got the jump on you, a dog could kick your ass and kill you. In fact, on your own, there is a long list of wildlife that has the upper hand in a one on one encounter.
So we don’t dare to kill one another on sight. We only prevail in, er, ‘packs’.
But why do incidents like the terror occur?
Well, under those circumstances one ‘pack’ of humans oversteps it’s bounds and neglects its responsibility to the other…’packs’, if you will.
They take all of the ‘good stuff’ for themselves, leaving next to nothing for anyone else.
Now, the ‘unwritten contract’ states that we suffer or prosper TOGETHER.
But the greedheads don’t like that idea. They subscribe to the ‘I was here first’ principle.
If there is any suffering to be done it will fall upon those who didn’t grab what they could, when they could.
But that’s not the deal!
The deal is share and share alike!
So you can see how these little ‘impasses’ end up in the streets running in blood.
Because the people, looking for their share, now have to go out and take it from those who took it unjustly.
And yeah, it’s still ‘crowd vs. crowd.’
And my how that crowd has grown under the false prosperity sown to hide the theft.
Worse, it’s a not a question of ‘if’ we are about to hit the wall but ‘when’?
Again there will be cries of shock, ‘why is this happening’ when we saw it begin all of those years ago…and stood motionless as they whispered ‘it’s different this time’.
It’s NEVER different…and it’s not different this time.
What has to happen, since they pretty much walked away unscathed the last time, is they have to be, er, ‘taught’ not to violate the contract all over again.
Like they were taught in 1789…and why we are here again so soon after 1929 because we DIDN’T ‘make them pay’ then.
We won’t enjoy that luxury this time. Although that’s what they’re counting on, that we’re ‘too civilized’ to punish them…the way that they punish tin pot dictators who object to their ‘machinations’.
We are rapidly approaching a time when we can no longer tolerate the few to prey upon the rest of us.
Those who fail to appreciate the benefits of the human social contract will have those benefits (forcibly) withdrawn from them.
Like it or not, we are all in this together.
Thus do we need to decide, together, what we should do next.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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