Hey look, the sky’s falling: An American Plight (markets, and oil, and politics, oh my)
So by the time you get around to reading this.. you’ll no doubt have noticed that the sky is falling.. err.. Major financial institutions file bankruptcy.. shit has hit the fan.. Were talking madness we haven’t seen since the Great Depression’s preamble!
I’m no economist.. and don’t know too much about the markets.. But my understand was “that couldn’t happen again.” Reason having something to do with market regulations.. the roll of the Fed, and all that kinda thing.. or at the very least markets are more stable these days.. and not susceptible to that sorta madness.. but you know this web 2.0, globalization 2.0, whatever 2.0 world.. we have all sorts of new madness we can spring on you.. so who knows…
I don’t know if the sky is really falling…. seems more like we are at a moment where we are… more enable to stare down into that there abyss.. then is our usual mode of operating.. which strikes me as healthy.. and it does feel like the danger is at least “all too real.” So lets all hope the US economy doesn’t collapse, ha?
Matt’s Ignorant take on things
Seeing as I don’t know what I’m talking about, what better time for me to tell you “how things are.” Social Media makes you an expert, don’t cha know?
It strikes me that the US economy hasn’t really been a happy place since our president’s name was Bill. Of course those days were bubble days and not really realistic anyway.. But what I mean to say is it seems like its been all down hill from there.. I mean not long after that we had our 9/11.. and on and on it went.. Things seemed healthy.. not soo bad.. but not real good ether… and then there was that housing bubble…
What concerns me mid term
Fill-er up
So the cost of oil is.. well going down at the moment.. but still, its rather high relatively speaking, isn’t it? So that drives up the cost of everything else, ha? The future of the fuel issue isn’t really a happy one.
What concerns me is the long-ish term fuel story: We have two issues here. #1 Oil sources are finite.. #2 Demand for Oil is rising. If our economy depends on oil… this means, long term, we are fucked. (that’s a technical term).
Now of course economics 101 tells us that.. as the cost of oil rises.. other fuel sources that were hither to too expensive.. now become viable.. when they hit mass production / as the technology increases.. stuff gets good.. but the curve that all this has to follow.. its not one that makes for a “happy economy.”
Gore’s Nightmare
Al Gore has rang the environmental alarms.. some on the conservative side of the isle are still saying “hum bug;” they think the earth’s warming has to do with solar wind, or some such thing.. rather then some sorta human made thing.. But.. it doesn’t matter what the hell the problem is.. global warming does present a danger.
I’m not here to say what the danger really is… I don’t really know.. but I will tell you that.. the shift of power from greece to… eventually Briton.. was not unconnected to global warming! What we will see happening, among other things, is a shift in where food comes from..
In Search of a Perfect Storm
This fun turn of events can produce a little thing we like to call in the biz “mass starvation.” If you think that sounds bad.. imagine crazy political realities.. the kind of wars that can spring from this sorta thing.. to say nothing about the issue of limited fuel sources.. If you were to add to that a “great depression 2.0,” I dare go so far as to say “Mutually Assured Destruction” might prove to have its limitations..
I’m not saying that all this sorta thing will happen.. I’m more saying.. the possibility is more real then we are thinking today… In my view.. this is a monster that does lurk out there.. somewhere over the rainbow if you will.. and its a monster that if we do not deal with our modern challenges.. really could happen.
Of course perhaps I’m just paranoid.. but do you remember when 9/11 “couldn’t happen?”
And of course if you wanna get real paranoid you could ask “what happens if this doesn’t happen till India and China become the dominant super powers?”
What’s this got to do with politics?
Admittedly what I speak of sounds far fetched.. but.. I think what all this points to is.. how important it is that we take the issues we are currently being confronted with seriously.. Cause if we fail to choose “wisely” well…
lol, how about a video to illustrate?
lol, I hope you can excuse me for saying this.. but have you noticed how modern politics seems to be “brand warfare?”
And here you thought Pepsi was the choice of a new generation!
Yeah.. them taste tests were rigged!
Next day sometime:
Things are looking a little less creepy today..