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Strategies & Market Trends : Ride the Tiger with CD -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Valuepro who wrote (188086)	5/31/2010 3:42:45 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 312486

I notice that the vast majority of "must have" stuff in our culture have a common thread: they help us isolate ourselves from our family and friends. The imagery with many luxury brand car commercials often shows an isolate driver wandering the countryside or a deserted city (even Manhattan!). My bro-in-law just visited, and he's bought into all those distractions (like getting drunk, really) -- could never engage in conversation, reserving most of his attention to his iPhone and important texts that might of come in, largely to set up eating and drinking engagements. Oh, the irony...