09-25-2016, 02:14 PM
(09-23-2016, 02:47 AM)Galen Wrote:(09-23-2016, 02:36 AM)taramarie Wrote:(09-23-2016, 02:20 AM)Galen Wrote:True about Eric. It amazes me really and I wonder what made him that way. Yes he is predicting Clinton will win. I have my doubts of course. I refrain from being certain of results before they are in but i sense she will not win for some reason. But do not take that too seriously. People want something different and the time is right for something new and the time is right for someone like Trump or Bernie who are something indeed very new who both claim to have the answer. We know what to expect from a Clinton. So that is why I sense she has a hard road ahead if she expects to win. But I would rather sit and wait for the results of the election as i am no prophet and I do not have the ego to claim to know the answer well in advance neither.(09-23-2016, 02:02 AM)taramarie Wrote: That makes sense. I just have to look to my mother to see that mistake. The thought that you can spend and be reckless with no ill consequence. Her error has trapped us both with her debt for if i leave, she starves. Not that I could anyway with prices being so high. I am grateful I have learned from seeing my elders mistakes at a young age however. I really needed that lesson so not to repeat it. The majority of boomers were not blessed with that lesson on a massive scale. Nothing lasts forever. Things can change in an instant. Earthquakes, great recession, death, city in ruin, suburbs in ruin, no food, no water, no power, no house, no job but a whole lot of debt (my mothers) that needs paying. What a lesson all in one go but boy i wizened up fast.
Eric the Obtuse is the archetype of unwilling to accept reality. There is the astrology and new age thing that he has been on since the sixties that never has worked. You have been probably reading his other stuff where he believes that Clinton is going to be president. Scott Adams disagrees with this assessment and I think he is right. Make sure to look at the video and tell me what you think, particularly about the mood.
Millies may have their issues but like the GIs they tend to adapt to changed circumstances. This will serve them well in the coming years.
Well being grounded in reality is vital to surviving and trying to thrive in a terrible environment. It is better together I have found. Being part of a millie collective to pick up the pieces of a ruined city keeps up spirits and likewise with collective businesses we are setting up to help each other in the business world. Here, we have the chance to rebuild a whole city and rebuild a nice, helpful community in civic groups and the business world. Both which I am part of with the SVA and the Film Cooperative.
I will watch your video.
Its a short video fortunately and it is a link from the Scott Adams blog which is also short. I tend to agree with him but you are right there are no guarantees.
I don't know where the attitude comes from but I do know it is endemic among the Boomers.]
I know where it comes from. Us boomers are used to shaping reality, not having to live with realities.
Blue boomers in particular are used to shaping reality by yelling at it and about it. If enough people just say something, it will become true.
And let's face it: blue boomers have personal experience during the Consciousness Revolution about the worst that can happen economically. The worst that can happen with more taxes and more spending and more of the economy under control of the government is a Soviet style centrally controlled economy. Given that they - by which I mean Eric but also Clinton - were siding against the U.S. military industrial complex and essentially in favor of the Soviets in the culture wars, that doesn't sound so bad to them.