Hi Ali,
Thank you for your thoughts. I don’t wholly disagree with your conclusions.
>>>There is an opinion that the big business is a contemporary form of war.<<<
There is that ancient rhythm to Life and Wall Street of kill or be killed. It is instinctual and certainly practiced with a curiously profound indifference by the animal kingdom. Humans have learned to moderate that tendency if only because we are bright enough to know that as a long term survival strategy “no man is an island”, and we had better figure out how to get along. War is hopefully only the failed sequel to a very long book of diplomacy.
If I recall correctly, when arch cyber-enemies Scumbria and Paul Engel met for golf (or was it lunch?), they apparently got along famously. In the real world, human beings utilize time honored social skills and amenities as a strategic communications interface. But cyberspace has put a wrench into traditional human interactions. It provides an unprecedented high degree of anonymity. People can routinely commit dastardly deeds without significant consequences. And Yousef e.g. can continuously make very lame jokes and puns and <grin> extensively to himself because even his clandestine cyber personality can’t see the cringing and retching suffered by the incredulous audience. There are no serious implications to being shunned by your peers in cyberspace. Only the disposable, untraceable cyber personality becomes persona non grata.
Sometimes this thread reminds me of that old Monty Python skit where someone ventures to a store solely to purchase an argument. But the proprietor shortchanges the customer by only being contrary for the sake of contrariness.
On the other hand, it’s possible that the trolls have been summoned to solicit flames and disrupt any chance of congeniality here, perhaps feeling this disharmony will be reflected negatively in the stock price.
I only know that as a lurker who comes to this thread to learn technical data and investment strategies from the very bright people, like yourself, who post here, all this soap opera stuff just clutters the thread. I long for the Reader’s Digest Condensed version of the AMD thread to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Finally, one only has to, for example, read the Gettysburg Address or hear Reagan’s “tear down this wall” speech to feel the power and potentiality of language. So admittedly it does just simply irk me to see this cherished language tool deployed and misused in a lasting format for such nebulous purposes as we often see on this thread.
Anyway thanks again for your thoughtful reply.
Regards,
Ron |
