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Rococo / Paul Revere/ View of the Town of Boston

So, one of my semi-frequent reads is Charles Hugh Smith’s “Of Two Minds”.  He’s OK.  He kinda peeves me off and on, so he will probably never get up to a routine read, but he is definitely someone I drop in to visit occasionally.  In baseball terms, I would rate him as a solid infielder with a low-200’s batting average.  No all-star game for him.  Bat him about seventh.

I am writing this because he whiffed badly the last time at bat.  When you read this, you just want to bench him for a while.  

Let’s talk about what annoys me the most about blogging.  Most of the issues that folks get all het up about are focused around what the society as a whole is doing and how these kinds of things don't fit the idealized world that lurches around the inside of their skull.

Charles is pretty good at this.  I have kept an eye on him for a while while reading his stuff.  In a sense he is a classic “minister” willing to tell you how his lifestyle choices and advertisements can be yours by just following his direction all the while making sure that the plate is being passed.

I kinda admire his lifestyle, he got in while the getting was good and lived the island life before the top blew out of the market.  Good timing and good cash management has taken him a long way.  I am certain that he has worked hard, but being a boomer like me, he also grew up in the “hard to fail” era.  

When he says completely asinine statements about “trying to prevent collapse”, he is talking his preacher talk.  Where a person wants to create a subscription system to let them tell you what is important to them and charge you for the service.

Nope, sorry charlie.  Your daydreams aren’t going to prevent “collapse” any more than mine will.  Collapse is a societal issue.  Individual actions have little effect on societal functions because the rest of the society’s actions have their own motivations and directions.  To be arrogant enough to say that warning everyone is going to do something other than give you rights to say “I told you so”, is a good way to earn a punch in the throat after the shit goes down.  

Nope, you are just trying to monetize fear of the increasingly likely chance of “collapse” (whatever the fuck that means) by saying you are trying to “prevent” a nebulous and frightening construct of your own mind. 

Earth abides.