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Pastimes : How to best deal with KOOKS at this web site
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To: Gottfried who wrote (93)4/3/1997 7:42:00 PM
From: Iceberg   of 1894
 
>I wouldn't be surprised if there had been animal studies using
rats,where living conditions were continuously made worse, until the animals started lashing out at each other. They could not get at their tormentors.

Gottfried,

Fascinating insight. Perhaps the stock market is a "tormentor" which drives otherwise normal people into abnormal behavior patterns because they can't really get at the tormentor (stock market).

In addition, mabe the stock market as tormentor is similar, or analogous to, the tormentor a prisioner of war faces. In that regard, investors and traders could be considered not so much prisoners of war, as prisoners of the market. If so, it's possible that the behavior of what we call 'kooks' is predictable--if only the psychological/sociolgical aspects of investor/trader as prisoner facing a tormentor had been adequately investigated.

It is entirely possible that the poster of the mutilated body which gave rise to this thread could have been reacting in a relatively normal way to torment from the market. What people do in prisoner of war situations can't reasonably be compared to what people do under normal circumstances.

It would be interesting to get the opinion of a sociologist or psychologist. They could have a field day with this web site. :-)

Ice
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