Politics 8.

The economics of bullshit.

If you want to be an economic superpower, and stay one for any length of time, you're gonna have to shovel some bullshit.

No two ways about it.

In a previous unit of this course, we saw how inflation works.
Essentially, money is bullshitted into existence.
Willed into the world with make-believe.

And it's like that with our goods.
There's only so many practical useful products out there, the rest of our economy hinges on the selling of stupid worthless bullshit.

If you doubt that bullshit is a huge part of our economy, just watch CNBC for just a few minutes, and watch all the drooling and finger crossing over "Black Friday".

Man, they're hoping the Wal-Mart riots get fevered enough, that people trample a granny's brain into greasy sneaker prints.
Means we're on the mend.

So, our money is inflated, our store shelves are inflated, and our books are cooked.

In an economy based on pure reason, we'd be fucked.
Well, if we shifted over to one today.
We missed our chance ages ago.

So, for the good of our holy economy, we've got to buy crap, and eat poison.

Y'know, to be good patriotic Americans.

And then we have to shovel our bullshit around the globe, and take in some other country's bullshit, y'know, to keep the global economy flowing.

And we've got to shovel the bullshit fast and hard, because a lot of other countries are breathing down our necks for the top spot.

Course, it's not humanly possible to concoct enough stupid bullshit products, and print enough money to cover this, it's not at all sustainable.

Maybe it's one of those faith things.
Lotta finger crossing and salt tossing plugging up the holes in the system I notice.

So, yeah, show me an "economic superpower", that's lost it's industrial base, and you've got a bouquet of red flags that there's some serious bullshit going on.

And then don't have the nerve to be surprised when The Snuggy becomes a big ticket item.

It all rests on a big bubble of bullshit.
Has for a looong time.

So, naturally, I roll my eyes at the whole proposition that "The Market", is the cure for all our ills to the point of "having a government so small you can drown it in a bathtub".

Please.
Give me a physical break.
These people are exactly as diseased as the ones in government.

'Cept we didn't elect 'em.

Only difference.

Well, that, and they don't get to boss the army around.

Although, now that Blackwater's out there giving me nightmares....

So um,...what's my point?
Ah, right, all you young aspiring Gordon Gekkos out there....*finger*

Meh, as if they'd be reading this fucking blog though....

"The Market", yet another thing not to have blind faith in, or chest puffed allegiance to.

That whole faith deal always ends you up in a gutter bleeding from the asshole.

Ask the people ripped off by Bernie Madoff.