The Sad State Of Consumer Income
This is a very useful article by Steve Hansen, detailing ongoing reality in ways that even Jane and & Joe Sixpack should comprehend.
In short, we're crash dummies being run into a wall of orthodoxy.
Public statistics are looking a bit grim.
Yet if you look more closely .... it's much worse!
And if you look EVEN closer ... it's far worse than that!!
(How many are already afraid to look closer?)
What can be done? Private prison industries? Divert Aggregate Demand to .... Aggregate Remand? We can't afford to exercise fiat ... unless that initiative is directed at constraining the untrained initiative of under-educated, under-trained, under-employed citizens? ?? Let me TRY to get my head around this.
Most ... of .. our ... initiative ... is .... spent ... by ... dwindling numbers of Central Planners (the 0.1%) ... on .... bizarre endeavors driven by twisted thinking?
Why, now that I've dragged it out of myself, that's the only statement that's made sense all year!!!
Our Central Planners think THEY own OUR fiat?
Their concerted initiative has deprived us of ours? How is that possible? It's a policy choice. One that "works" for us ... until we decide it doesn't. Can some more of us PLEASE make a decision? An adaptive one?
Their concerted initiative has deprived us of ours? How is that possible? It's a policy choice. One that "works" for us ... until we decide it doesn't. Can some more of us PLEASE make a decision? An adaptive one?
How tragically silly. And ironic. We're unleashing weapons of cultural self-destruction right here in River City? If the NeoCons can't see it, they must be hiding it from themselves.
Two questions for Americans.
1) If we don't completely re-evaluate how we do functional public education in the USA, what will happen to our descendants?
2) And even if we re-invent K-12 education, will even that matter .... if we don't find a way to gracefully re-invent all of our currently failing governance institutions?
Besides currency operations, how many things which we learned in the 1930s - or since - have we simply not bothered to tell enough of us? Will we start communicating stuff that matters more often? Will we listen? Or are we all closet OldneoCons, hiding emerging reality from ourselves ... and our kids - to no avail?
Two questions for Americans.
1) If we don't completely re-evaluate how we do functional public education in the USA, what will happen to our descendants?
2) And even if we re-invent K-12 education, will even that matter .... if we don't find a way to gracefully re-invent all of our currently failing governance institutions?
Besides currency operations, how many things which we learned in the 1930s - or since - have we simply not bothered to tell enough of us? Will we start communicating stuff that matters more often? Will we listen? Or are we all closet OldneoCons, hiding emerging reality from ourselves ... and our kids - to no avail?
Self-management societies vs anarcho-capitalism: the new global war of ideologies?
ReplyDeletehttp://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/09/self-management-societies-vs-anarcho.html
Self-management? On what scale? For how long?
ReplyDeleteIsn't that what we call a society, and a culture?
Both work until they don't. Then they don't work ... until they do.
It's a collective policy choice.
So, how do cultures and/or mobs actually MAKE group assessments? Through their group discourse methods? Those too, are policy choices.
http://cms.yesmagazine.org/issues/healing-resistance/the-warriors-who-turned-to-peace
Are there enough US citizens turning to sane, group intelligence methods, and thereby to Democracy?
How would 315 million people even know, soon enough? You know, before self-management tolerance limits were barriers exceeded 10 contexts back?
"Oh, you mean THAT 'Bridge Out' sign!"
How do 315 million people even assess whether they are or aren't making a cultural policy decision?
ReplyDeleteGroup momentum - stirred up by some Control Fraud - can easily cause groups to lurch about, triggering group decisions by default, which the group as a whole only becomes aware of later on.
Welcome to the fusing of Command & Control nightmares, with the Fog of Culture.
Every seen a whole, national culture exhibiting the symptoms of cultural-huntington's-chorea?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP7DaxZy7FY
Have OUR cultural institutions - no longer suitable for our changed context - already doomed the USA to a cultural Dance of Death?
The good news is that WE CAN ADJUST our flawed cultural-gene methods. But only if we choose to act, before the national dance descends from cultural agility into the national jerk or Middle Class Break dance that triggers excessive head-honcho banging, rampant injuries, lost generations, and loss of cultural life and states.
ReplyDeletespeaking of the prison industrial complex, check this out from n+1 mag: "raise the crime rate"
ReplyDeletehttp://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate