Last night I had a conversation with a close friend of mine. We started talking about the economy. Full disclosure I am a full time trader i stare at charts for a living.
I've been warning him for over 2 years now that the plandemic and all the bullshit they implemented was going to cause a massive recession into a depression the likes of which we've never seen. That the credit crunch was gonna be unbelievable and that buying at home at all time highs during the plandemic was retarded and that he should stop pouring money into his 401k at his work.
He continued to pour money into those wortheless funds at work, he bought a house in 2021 which he got into a bidding war with and he even bought a new truck.
He is now complaining and blaming others about all the shit that's happening to him. He's going through a rough marriage, his work (new build developers) are now talking about massive slow downs and putting projects on suspension because the cost benefit analysis is weak etc etc.
He's mad at wall street for his problems. Just blindly pointing the finger at anyone but the mirror.
He's also giving me attitude lately because he finds it absurd that I can make money on a declining economy.
This is normie mentality 101. THIS is the core of the problem. Now I wouldn't even bother talking about the DS with him cause there is no point.
I would argue it is not a singular problem, but many faceted. This discussion brings up two big ones, so I'll keep to those:DS and Normies.
Cliff notes version is pretty straight forward, in that the DS has deliberately created generations of retards via public schooling, both high school level and college. Individuals unable to think themselves out of room with one door: they have to be told what to do and have no ability to understand what's around them. As George Carlin famously put it, " they want you just smart enough to push the buttons and pull the levers, but not enough to question why." Pardon if I misquoted, but that's the gist.
Now the Normies are at fault for being too cowardly to ask questions for fear of persecution( herd mentality), OR theyre just too damned stupid to understand to begin with...or both. This leans toward your "friend" that's been given ample warning: always ready to point fingers rather than investigating warnings of what's to come and making logical conclusions. No self awareness.
In conclusion, it's a ying-yang marriage, just as there is no evil without good, no up without down, etc. There must be willing participants for one or the other to exist.
I don’t even think the DS created aforementioned “bots”. Majority of people really are just at that level. Esp if given distractions. It’s much harder work to read a book on philosophy than binge Netflix on the couch. And that’s what it really is about in the end. Intellectual curiosity. Most people just don’t have it. Eat, work, sleep, fuck & repeat is what most people have bandwidth for, even if they had leisure time and money,imo.