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To: hunchback who wrote (34118)	5/20/2000 10:05:00 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

re. Dr.Braun: Thanks a lot... that really was a hoot, reminds me of the first time I heard of YaHoo... I thought who would name their company that? DAK

To: hunchback who wrote (34118)	5/20/2000 10:09:00 PM
From: re3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

and also from gold eagle.@jimbob re the crowd (TQ) May 20, 21:57 I think you are right about the crowd. The stunning decline in the Nasdaq on April 14 must have made their eyeballs fog over. At the time I noticed a real sense of uncertainty from the local allnews radio station business reporter. Lately he has sounded more matter of fact. The Ron Isana's are the professional hand holders for the genX tech investors. They give the daily dose of optimism to the 'long term' buyers who are assisting the pro's with 'distribution.' This is planned and part of the reason the markets move as they do. According to Robert Prechter this market could take years to reach bottom. Those being duped by the mainstream media into buying the dips etc. can be expected to continue their mania for years, even in the face of massive losses. They are 'true believers'. This is a term coined by Eric Hoffer back in the '50s I think. We here at Gold Eagle are believers in gold, so from this we can understand some of what the tech believers are doing. This stock market mania has been all that many genXers have known. It is their experience of the stock market. Gambling addiction begins in a similar manner. When a new gambler wins early and big the newbie will go to great lengths to repeat the thrill of the win. This is what produces gamblers. The proliferation of gambling casinos has played a big part in the stock market mania. The gambler believes he is above it all and has some hope to repeat the first thrill. So do the genXer tech investors. They will remain in the game far too long, and will be taken to the cleaners by the pro's. This has occured by old fashioned operant conditioning. This was first described by Pavlov and his now famous drooling dogs. B.F. Skinner took things the step farther. The real money has been made by those who understand how to use media to make us drool for cars, stocks, clothes, golf, you name it. The use of media to manipulate public opinion has more thansimple political overtones. We can see manipulation increasing on a variety of fronts. The increase in frequency and amount of information to induce high stress levels will reduce independent thinking. The rapid increase in speed of information is a kind of machine gun effort to eliminate energy and independent thought. This produces a docile public of hungry for approval lap dogs. Oddly we buy the tv, and willingly spend a lot of time 'watching' it. By now it is well known that the alpha waves produced by watching tv are similar to those produced by our brains while we sleep. So what is my point? My point is that there is a lot of effort going into ensuring that the genxer tech stock buyer is highly stressed, over stimulated with facts and with little time or interest in thinking. The genXer tech stock buyer has been 'built' or should I say 'custom built' by the ones that Vance Packard described as the 'Hidden Persuaders.' This has all been described by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, and H.G. Wells in 1984. And to some extent also is described in the film Matrix. The theme is the freedom of individuals which frightens those in power and thus a system is developed to 'regulate' the 'variables'. Those of you who have studied finite math know that the process continues.