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In case you were considering never stopping the bashing....
Was swayed by the evil white man to no longer be a slave to the firm. Would that he stayed shackled to the desks of his Nerrex overlords. None of this messiness would have ensued.
But many of you might.
Suicide Shahid Bratz! For Peace! For Freedom! For Progress!
In case you were hoping for miraculous solar powered unicorns or something.
Midget furry cosplay hookers are a step up
So you've got that.
Clean air & free limitless energy.
But they like to day trip on it once in a while.
None of you are truly miserable to have nothing to lose nor are you angry enough to fix it so that no one else does either. Edmund Burke's thesis that successful revolutions arise out of the middle class and not the poor was unique to that time. Now there's no such thing as revolutions that arise out of either the middle class OR the poor. The middle class is afraid to be left worse off and the poor just devolve into anarchic bands of 'activists' or 'freedom movements' which are the cover stories for criminal gangs and local tyrants. Mostly it all grinds along slowly toward dingier and cruddier states that work a little less well each year. But the upside for leftists is that everyone everywhere falls and fails a bit at the same rate. The long run outcome is that the west will become a semi functional lower class collection of states that resemble east Germany in the 80's more than anything else. Not really worth living in but not really worth saving either, unless someone handed it to them. In short, everyone will be the same. Everyplace will be the same. More like Cairo or Luanda than Paris. All you have to do is wait and do nothing and real world socialism will come to you with relatively little effort.
Die in a bukkake death match.
Just take the printer out to a field and crush it with a bat.
Mere coincidence? I think not.
But an almost equally large group of accidents have to do with being confronted with a complex mixture of signals that tend to conflict with one another, or, tend to mimic other less serious problems and so defy correct diagnosis. You can only respond in the way you've been trained to respond. So the odds are generally in your favor that if something looks like something you're familiar with, that's how it's addressed. But the times that it's not, well things go very badly wrong very rapidly.
And Malcolm Gladwell is a fool. All he's stumbled on is that some people are badly trained and bad at their job. Just like in any other job in the world.
Every industry is connected to every other industry. We're none of us that indispensable in that regard. 100,000 people in financial services have lost their jobs this year. One would think that in a global interconnected economy that waves would rippled out of that and kill everything. But it hasn't,or, if it has then it's not so bad.
Keeping the car companies alive because of this is simply bad thinking. It's a scare tactic. If the car companies go broke, we're not going to stop buying all cars. Someone else will buy up those companies. Maybe Toyota or Fiat or Peugeot or TATA or Cherry.
Ever hear of John Hammond for instance? Just because some dudes were white doesn't mean a) they didn't know what they were doing, b) they were criminals and c) been down so long it look like up to me.
and it's all Bush and America's fault anyway.
They were positively Shakespearean.
Who is next? All the homebuilders? Let's toss 100 billion their way because of 'unemployment'. Steel companies? Ok. Ship builders? Naturally. And first and foremost ALL public sector employees. Let's do that too. Let's throw shovels full of cash at those paragons of efficiency - state and local government. Because lord knows, we can't live w/o millions of supervisors who are paid to watch the one guy digging a posthole.
Tell you what - throw a few billion at all the IT companies too. You know, so they won't export 10's of thousands of jobs to India and China. I'm sure that will rectify it all.
But of course not, you only hear that nonsense here at College Sophomore Marxism dot com.
Or whatever the new female Michael Jackson calls herself now, has a 3 or 4 note range, at best. Needs massive post production to sound normal. She can't dance, she's as graceful as a rhino and basically has no musically or artistically redeeming qualities at all?
All you have to do is say you're guilty on national television and we'll let you eat all the babies you want.
My dentist drives a Benz CL65 AMG. My orthodontist drives a Benz G55 AMG. I doubt they know or care what the price of gas is. Ostentation comes in all varieties. My neighbor has a custom built 6-door F-350 4x4. It's as big as a trawler.
Childhood in America now runs to age 30. So you have 3 more years to sit around and do nothing. With any luck your parents will drop in the harness early and leave it all to you so at worst you'll have to pull your own weight, 15-20 years max. Then you can go back to sitting around, but now with more cats.
I would watch this if is was done as a 'reality show' where 20-something drunk girls get to pull each other's hair for the right to be a paranoid dictator's main squeeze.