by ReverseEngineer » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 03:48:08
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hermes', 'L')ooking at us looking at Merckle is an interesting exercise.
I believe it's similar to how many so-called "Third Worlders" will view us during the collapse. Many people in this society will lose their will to live in the coming years. They will become utterly depressed and will often kill themselves.
People in societies where they live hand-to-mouth right now will, I suspect, look at members of this society killing themselves because they lost the middle management job ... and they will gawk. They will scratch their heads and it won't make sense to them, that people will want to kill themselves because they're left "only" with a car, a rental house and a college education.
Well, herein lies the underpinning of just why the Black Humor I write disturbs many people here. You have to remember the composition of the board in economic terms, demographically speaking it is highly skewed toward what was the upper middle class of developed nations, with in fact a fair representation of some quite wealthy people.
When I first joined the board less than a year ago, this bunch of folks felt quite secure with Axioms they held as incontrovertably true, that the outrageously rich Pigmen would walk thru this unscathed, and that the moderately rich syncophants would suffer some difficulties but most of the pain would be visited on the poorest members of society. Arguing that this was not so in my thread "Falling Stockbrokers and Going Postal" brought guffaws and jeers, I was told that it was far more likely middle class J6Ps would be commiting suicide than the Pigmen. However, what I predicted has come to pass now, it really IS Raining Pigmen.
So, when I write my Black Humour at the SAME time the actual suicides are taking place, its highly disturbing to those folks who THOUGHT they were safe here. There's no way I could drive home these points any clearer than by making these jokes. Most people really just do not grasp what kind of LEVELLER we are talking about here. You are not talking about the impoverishment of just a portion of the society or even a portion of the world, you are talking about GLOBAL impoverishment. The money is simply being rendered worthless, at it always has been really just as long as people will buy into the illusion of perpetual growth you can make the illusion seem real enough.
For nearly ALL people in developed countries who have bought into this system and to one extent or another set themselves above the rest of the world because they THOUGHT that the money they were making was real, that their investments would always pay off, as they each come to realize for themselves that it all can disappear in just an instant really, their whole underpinning of what they believed to be true is taken from them. In our culture, Money has come to define who you are, what class you are and it thoroughly divides off the Haves from the Have Nots of the world. Its not JUST that you no longer are rich, its that now you are ONE OF THEM. One of those who you said was just poor because they were Lazy or because they weren't as smart as some Pigman. Not only are you poor, but you cannot see any way out of NOT being poor. Those smarts you thought you had that set you apart aren't helping you, you are as lost in this as all the rest of the poor folks, all the rest of the laid off GM Workers, all the rest of the generations of Welfare moms you so despised for sucking off you and driving up your taxes. Now you are just like THEM.
As I watch members disappear off this board, I note that most of them come from the class of the very well to do. Their world is crashing down first here, and particularly if they read my prose, I paint a very unpleasant picture of the future for them. Some, but fewer all the time will argue with me, but they can't win because the facts as they play out demonstrate what I say to be true, the News backs me up. That I show absolutely NO compassion for the plight of the wealthy investor "hoodwinked" out of millions by Bernie or for a German Industrialist despondent enough to throw himself in front of a locomotive is a clear demonstration of the fact that they are not going to get a whle lot of sympathy from the population of the unwashed masses they so despised. I am one of the NICE guys! I would actually give people a fair trial, before I hang them. LOL.
One member here described me as a "Rock" who doesn't change with the blowing winds, who stands his ground, and so I am. For those who have suffered for generations at the hands of the Pigmen, my compassion is boundless. For those who have served as syncophants to the Pigmen, I have mostly pity but little compassion. For the Pigmen themselves, I have only contempt, which I will express in no uncertain terms. I will write Black Humour, and I'll spit out Fire and Brimstone like a Chataqua Preacher overdosed on Crystal Meth. I spit out the words like Bullets, and my Aim is True. Read it in the News for yourself. It's Raining Pigmen alright, and the rain has only just begun.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')umidity is rising - Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, Wall Street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half-past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining Pigmen.
It's Raining PigMen! Hallelujah! - It's Raining PigMen! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
It's Raining PigMen! Hallelujah!
