el gaviero & all,
When I look at my country, I don’t see the attractive looseness and courage of stouthearted men, but something close to the opposite: the up-tightness of men good at getting grades, good at getting ahead in bureaucracies, good at landing sinecures in think-tanks, good at manipulating symbols and images...
el, I disagree strongly on your observations of character, but then we are not looking at same people.
You are looking at the politicos, which I view as being current mutations of a plague extant since 1913, no matter what political card they carry, while I look at the citizens, the common man and woman, as an entirely different breed.
Much maligned as sheepish Joe Six Pack Homer Simpson stereotypes, it is true they have been mostly, (but not all!), asleep in the soma coma of mass media and controlled opinion in The Matrix.
But every so often they wake from their sleep to do something quite unique and noble, often just in the nick of time to save this great nations greatness from folly.
It is then that the public claims public opinion for themselves, they begin to question things as they are and to seek answers! I believe such a time is coming again and it will give the upcoming generation a new label.
Eventually the conservatives and the liberals, neo or not, manage to up the soma dosage or the iron heel prescription enough to put the Joe's back in a coma where they can be comfortably sheared with a minimum of bleating to disturb the shearers prosperity. But that recurring nap does not remove the noble moments of their lucidity from history.
Nor does it remove the fact that the next lucid moments of the US citizen will be quite a surprise to both factions of the political realm.
But I will not elaborate on that which as of now I only see as through a glass, darkly, lest I laugh too hard at those who think they see.
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Like ns, demands on my time have grown. I also have some large projects ahead, some concern the market and some do not. Those projects concerning the market are not near culmination any time soon, so I have little in the way of content to discuss and less in the way of time to discuss it.
So while I will visit and lurk, I will post much less. Just for the record, I am still in my PM positions and hope to see everyone here on the profitable other side of the golden bull and of course at the beginning of the next Big Trend.
Best of luck to all,
Roebear |
