tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post834072926983310141..comments2024-03-22T05:15:17.042+02:00Comments on Sudden Debt: Oxymoronic AnnouncementsHellasioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03564511281240682625noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-14053812988809691302009-05-29T00:41:41.199+03:002009-05-29T00:41:41.199+03:00No comment on $ strength?No comment on $ strength?shtovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-59183901150243234112009-05-28T19:09:55.821+03:002009-05-28T19:09:55.821+03:00"...like criticizing a rape victim for taking cab ..."...like criticizing a rape victim for taking cab fare from the perpetrator to get out of a bad neighborhood."<br /><br />That is a good analogy for what has happened to the savings and prospects of the unaware masses but it will be interesting to see if and how they will react once they fully realize their predicament and how they got there.yoyomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06357340275250708990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-89127679672182409802009-05-28T17:19:52.930+03:002009-05-28T17:19:52.930+03:00Roger, The "masses" depend on "professionals" to l...Roger, The "masses" depend on "professionals" to look out for their well being. They depend on doctors to help them when they are sick. Politicians to deal with affairs of state. Bankers to manage with financial needs.<br /><br />The system was imperfect but we muddled through. Something is breaking down. I think TV has reached a point of efficiency and power that cannot be overcome. Logic and reason is out the window and bullshit is king (ref. Dick Cheney's bullshit).<br /><br />But to criticize the "masses" for taking a $600 stimulus check is like criticizing a rape victim for taking cab fare from the perpetrator to get out of a bad neighborhood.marcusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-71464391032591645222009-05-27T21:51:44.767+03:002009-05-27T21:51:44.767+03:00Hell, you were expecting relative $ strength a few...Hell, you were expecting relative $ strength a few months ago.<br /><br />Time to reassess, now it's clear the trickery is getting deeper and wider?shtovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-41765896116321430162009-05-27T20:22:10.646+03:002009-05-27T20:22:10.646+03:00Tsst, tsst, mea culpa, I made a GENDER error in th...Tsst, tsst, mea culpa, I made a GENDER error in the last comment. Should read "la fameuse mauvaise foi".<br />Not that you guys are sensitive to gender errors, huh ? LOL (Is that what they're called in English ?)Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-81370993732806595252009-05-27T20:19:17.585+03:002009-05-27T20:19:17.585+03:00I beg to differ with you guys' analysis on this on...I beg to differ with you guys' analysis on this one.<br />Qualifying our behavior as dishonesty, and lying to ourselves is a great PART of our problem.<br />Believing the stories that THEY tell us is not dishonesty. It is credulity.<br />Think about this one.<br />By qualifying what's going on as LYING to ourselves (le fameux mauvaise foi de Sartre), we still manage to maintain the ILLUSION of CONTROL over our behavior which lying implies. Lying is CONSCIOUS behavior.<br />But... our behavior is neither conscious nor willfull.<br />Freud well understood that our greatest humiliation came with the realization that we do NOT control our behavior, and that we most often ACT first, then find post facto reasons to justify our acts.<br />We are sophisticated animals, but animals nevertheless.<br />Too bad that we collectively SHIT SO MUCH ON ANIMALS that our perception of ourselves as animals is thus depraved...<br />(And shutting up animals in those no risk zoos we have is shitting on them too. It just LOOKS nicer, that's all...)Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-19271940767878462012009-05-27T19:46:57.630+03:002009-05-27T19:46:57.630+03:00Amen Edwardo, amen.
Don't know why I forget to ad...Amen Edwardo, amen.<br /><br />Don't know why I forget to add it to my ever growing bubble list:<br /><br />#5- Dishonesty too ourselves.<br /><br />RegardsThaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00700253024420397221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-2918476088379127102009-05-27T19:45:41.571+03:002009-05-27T19:45:41.571+03:00r u sure I can incorporate as a bank holding compa...r u sure I can incorporate as a bank holding company and exchange my securitized hope for TALF funds?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-73265610677799566402009-05-27T18:06:06.278+03:002009-05-27T18:06:06.278+03:00Our age is one of tremendous dishonesty. That is ...Our age is one of tremendous dishonesty. That is what our age may best at, lying. We are dishonest with ourselves first, and consequently with others. In a very real sense, Hell's blog is a record of dishonesty as it manifests in the financial realm.<br /><br />The truth will out, though not always in a timely fashion.Edwardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613197383283896190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-18032176291099171752009-05-27T15:44:35.516+03:002009-05-27T15:44:35.516+03:00Joe,
I do not think the masses have been sold dow...Joe,<br /><br />I do not think the masses have been sold down the river; they've more or less boarded the boats for the ride down the river. How many folks do you who refuse the gov's handouts? Who returned Bush's $600 stimulus check? Who do not take their SS? Who decline to use medicare? Many of us all too readily look to a king to save us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-28957985952671968732009-05-27T15:23:21.291+03:002009-05-27T15:23:21.291+03:00What most people do not realize is that the Main S...What most people do not realize is that the Main Spin Media has been just that since 1915.<br /><br />Yes, right after the Fed coup they knew that without the media enabling them their victory would be short.<br /><br />The masses in the US have been sold down the river by the FED/Media and it is now coming home to roost as the FED enters into demise.<br /><br />Joe M.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005483996588605077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-5240502289431680942009-05-27T11:09:46.931+03:002009-05-27T11:09:46.931+03:00When MY hopes occasionally were oxymoronic, my mam...When MY hopes occasionally were oxymoronic, my mama had this little figure of speech :<br />"People in hell want icewater, too."<br /><br />A picture is NOT worth a thousand words.<br />Because the WORDS are behind the pictures, still.<br />You just have to flush them out. They're there.<br /><br />I love oxymorons, by the way. Shakespeare is great at them. They are... BAROQUE. Fitting for our baroque age.<br /><br />What is evident in the terribly unpoetic jargon that the economisters spew out at industrial speed (now that our industry is just a memory, right ?) is that it is designed to allow us to fool ourselves all the way to the bankstie. <br /><br />The bankstie, which is the modern day equivalent of the pleasure dome that Kubla Khan erected in Coleridge's poem.<br /><br />We need to be investing our precious, not to be squandered HOPE in something besides consumer spending and the status quo.Debranoreply@blogger.com