FIGURES DON'T LIE???

"Liars" (and everyone, these days) "Figure"

I managed to avoid being "bit" directly in the Great Recession Bubble, or Melt-Down of 2008, after being a victim in both the "Savings and Loan" and "Tech" bubbles.  In this "bubble-liscious" age, starting in earnest with Ronnie Reagan (like so much else that plagues us today) we're all drowning in FIGURES, or, better, being beat over the head with NUMBERS by some screaming advocate of impending doom.  All number-weilders today are in part a "salesman" whether they present themselves as a politician, preacher, hedge fund money boy, banker (they're different), or talk-show hosts; the list is long.

NUMBERS like The Dow, The Debt, Demographics, Interest Rates, Unemployment, Your Retirement number, Life Expectancy, etc., etc., etc!

But these screamers will all be the first to tell you they're not LIARS!  Thanks to the religious nuts that reign in the media today, nothing is a LIE if you BELIEVE it.  Voila!  Tell all those "Occupy" and "Tea  Party" screamers to get out of the streets and the media!  They have to go home and grab a mirror!

THEY'RE to blame because they BELIEVED in the bulls**t!  They have to withdraw to some place of solitude and divest themselves of their propensity to BELIEVE; and everything will turn right again!

Oops!!

Now about the LIARS.  Nobody "lies" anymore; they simply have an opposing view.  Every issue has its opposition.  The Yin-Yang Media will see to that!.  Therein lies the essence of their business plan. Therein also lies the root of this Democracy's inability to govern itself.  The MUSHROOM becomes the symbol of the future (read earlier blog).

The magic "potion" to ward off  this evil, (this insanity?), is our ever-expanding computing capability.

Technology "giveth" and it "taketh away".  You can derive and manage your own NUMBERS.  After all, isn't it YOUR NUMBER that matters?

While in your place of solitude to over-haul your beliefs, re-think your ICONS also.  Here are some from history you might consider.  We're told that Benjamin Franklin thought our national symbol should be the Turkey Buzzard, not the Bald Eagle.  Think about the symbolism of that!  My grandfather told me that his view  was that the patron saint of the United States should be P. T. Barnum, who believed that "there's a sucker born every minute" in this country.  My grandfather succeeded at running a business from 1907 to 1957, against stupendous odds. 

It's not too late to wake up -- drive a Repoob into stark fright!

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