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i used to be such a conscientious blogger--you know, posting semi-regularly, responding to comments, following up on dangling threads, that sorta thing--but all that has pretty much gone by the wayside lately.
all i can offer by way of explanation is that i've become a deer caught in the headlights of world events--events i've long known would come to pass, and from which i've profited handsomely, but which have nonetheless stunned me with their unfolding speed to the point that i can do little but watch in dismay as the world as i've known it disintegrates before my eyes.
one of the things each of my chosen prophets predicted (and the thing which prompted this post) was that the global elites who caused this mess would, when the shit finally hit the fan, set the victims of their crimes against one another, thus effectively deflecting blame from themselves.
and this they've done, brilliantly: first, by making their crimes so complicated that barely a handful of their educationally dumbed-down victims could begin to grasp the enormity of what had been perpetrated upon them; and second, by enlisting their bought-and-paid-for media shills and politicians to fan the flames of (lower) class warfare.
so the tea party's declared war on labor, and labor has just declared war right back, when their collective rage might be more constructively utilized by, say, banding together, rampaging through the streets and hanging investment bankers from every lamppost in lower manhattan.
not that i would ever advocate such a course of action, you understand.
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guttermorality:
Although I believe there are good reasons for your current blog-maintenance-apathy, I am not convinced that concern that your predicted future has come true is the reason.
As for your sentiment that we have lower class warfare on each other, this may be a peculiar American thing.
The recent rioting in Britain was very much a -- I'm going to get what's mine -- type of rage from people who do not have a lot.
Perhaps we will see cities up in flames -- think the 1960's or here in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict. I think we are close to a breaking point. Only this time, we just might see people in Orange County rioting in their middle class way. Wait, that would be the tea party movement.
There is a lot of unfocused anger out there. It has landed on the politicians of both parties. It just has not landed on the investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and other princes of high finance who thought they were infallible and now just think they are entitled.
Interesting that you use "entitled" to describe the mentality of investment bankers, but not that of the rioters in Britain.
What, after all, does "I'm going to get what's mine" mean in the context of people who've just discovered that the government nipple has... well, not run dry, but slowed down a bit... and who respond not by deciding it's finally time to get a fucking job, but by smashing and looting?
Yes, they don't have a lot. But not having a lot doesn't turn people into violent criminals. Not having a lot but hearing for your whole life that you don't have to work to live, that others will do it for you, and then being told that there simply aren't enough people working to support those who aren't, does.
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