Fair enough. That's a good fact to keep in mind. Been so long since I experienced a recession that I guess I didn't fully appreciate what the term meant. The last time one happened I was isolated from civilization and didn't really know it was happening.
No offense, but when it comes to a recession, I'll just believe it's happening when it's actually fucking here. The massive amount of financial doomsday 'expert' predictions I've heard in the past 10 years have made the art of predicting a complete joke.
Like, I'm sure it'll happen at some point. The market is cyclical and has a tendency to bubble and boil over, but the catalyst to pin-pop the balloon is the impossible piece to predict in the temporal realm (unless someone manufactures the catalyst artificially...).
Hard to grasp how incredibly broken those people are. Like, has no one ever told them it actually feels good to help other people? It's been scientifically supported as one of the most effective joy-inducing activities known, far beyond acquiring wealth or shopping. Ironically, it's probably the best way to demonstrate a sense of power (which these hollow souls seem to pursuing, through vitriol)...the power to influence someone else's existence in a beneficial way.
A bit sensationalist, yes. I didn't read it, but I hope it made some link between the hormone drops associated with shocking imagery and sounds and the cognitive high one receives in response to the ensuing neurosynaptic flood.
They're basically addicts with the drugs being manufactured and distributed in-house; all they need is the evermore violent and shocking A/V catalyst to inject the proverbial needle.
I was of the understanding reading books had fallen out of favor and reality shows, endless scrolling, 24/7 news, and podcasts were the new and supposedly best way to expose oneself to entertainment disguised as information.
What's your preferred method of acquiring knowledge and exercising your intelligence to hit the proverbial 'ensmartment button'?
Sounds like you better get busy on building that ensmartering button then, because exposure to knowledge through books and other educational media is the only way I know of to become smarter. I suppose healthy living facilitates the process greatly, as well.
I want to leave to ensure the safety of those closest to me.
But I also want to stay and fight like hell.
Unfortunately, even if the immediate fascism were beaten back, I have very little faith in anything but capitochristofascism's resolve to continue to be absolutely shitty, and general American ignoarrogance to reign supreme, for the rest of my life.
What if the court tries doing things the right and lawful way, fails, and then says "fuck it, rule of law is obviously dead, so here's a hail mary" and appeals to citizens at large to enforce it, promising immunity to those who act?
Steal what people have to lose and they'll start acting like they've nothing left to lose...
The sheer unfairness of it stings and festers, I agree and feel the same as you. There's some solace in knowing there was never really anything I could have done differently, except perhaps lived a little more decadently, although I'm not sure that would have made me much happier at the time and probably would have made me even more poorly prepared, mentally, for the austerity to come.
My parents were strategic geniuses for having this book in the house when I was a kid. I believe it helped my slow lifetime acceptance of the 'life is no fair' fact.
It'll be interesting to see if it stands up to the test of time. For better or worse, I replaced my VTI index ETF with VTV to avoid the highest p/e offending tickers.
Fair enough. That's a good fact to keep in mind. Been so long since I experienced a recession that I guess I didn't fully appreciate what the term meant. The last time one happened I was isolated from civilization and didn't really know it was happening.