[b]Step right in, the water is fine. A passerby yells out, “but isn’t that a cliff ahead?”
Hush now child, fall gently over the cliff and plunge into the water, let the soft gentle violent waves caress you and drag you away within the dark skies of the night.[/b]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQsZujjZWs0[/youtube]
Update: Denmark announces mandatory enforced vaccinations.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM5ix55TLbk[/youtube]
Must defend DOW 20,000 maginot line at all costs today for in today’s world perception management is everything. If 20,000 can’t be defended there goes away very rapidly the perception of having control…
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3h5u2rfuVc[/youtube]
Get a look at Steve Mnuchin in the press conference today, he looks absolutely mighty nervous and antsy…
I wonder what he’s thinking about today…
“You stink of fear…”
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbhnBEiqGGk[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtK9XYY1hms[/youtube]
With the economy, this may be what it all comes down to:
nytimes.com/2020/03/17/upsh … e=Homepage
[b]"To understand why the world economy is in grave peril because of the spread of coronavirus, it helps to grasp one idea that is at once blindingly obvious and sneakily profound.
One person’s spending is another person’s income. That, in a single sentence, is what the $87 trillion global economy is.
That relationship, between spending and income, consumption and production, is at the core of how a capitalist economy works. It is the basis of a perpetual motion machine. We buy the things we want and need, and in exchange give money to the people who produced those things, who in turn use that money to buy the things they want and need, and so on, forever.
What is so deeply worrying about the potential economic ripple effects of the virus is that it requires this perpetual motion machine to come to a near-complete stop across large chunks of the economy, for an indeterminate period of time."[/b]
Then the part where you calculate where you personally will fit into it given the worst case scenario.
Right now, given my own “situation”, things aren’t all that bad. But what is it that I am not calculating into “I” two weeks or two months or six months from now?
Uncertainty is really at the heart of it all for many. Given an unprecedented set of events, you don’t have much [either personally or historically] to fall back on.
On the other hand, there are some folks here who are actually reacting rather, what, gleefully, to the calamities that might unfold? But that is just another manifestation of dasein to me. It may piss some off, but how much real control do we have over all of the events in our lives that predispose us to react in very different ways?
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBClImpnfAg[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgGQHvrhX7k[/youtube]
In other news: Russia kills thirty four Turkish soldiers around Idlib and the United States vows to defend Turkey, I’m sure this is nothing…
You know what I think about this Covid-19?
I heard from a little bird that the cure for Covid-19 is global government and a one world currency. When that happens all the Covid-19 will magically go away.
A little right-wing reactionary bird no doubt. Of course the left-wing radicals have their own rendition of that.
Only, based on my own experiences, not as many of them will actually revel in all of the enormous pain and suffering that millions upon millions of human beings are about to endure.
You can’t wait for it to happen. Or, rather, so it seems to me. But, from my point of view, what is most interesting here is why. What was the actual existential trajectory that your life has taken to date – experiences, relationships, access to ideas – that created this particular political prejudice?
Or are you able instead to provide us with a philosophical argument defending your point of view as one that all reasonable men and women are likely to embody in this day and age.
