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Xanadu Xero
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I am perpetually, savagely perplexed by THE MARKET. "I want to show them a few more options so they get a *feel* of THE MARKET before they make a choice."HELL-LO (as philosopher-king Bruno would say...)
>>>>>>>THERE IS NO MARKET<<<<<<<
THE MARKET is a WHOLLY INVENTED collective hallucination, a swap of Reason for Faith, a secret, a brainwash, a WHOLLY INVENTED internal world that is our blueprint for the outside.WE DO NOT CHALLENGE IT YET debate ad-lameum 'The Nature Of Reality' and 'whether educated, sophisticated people can be brainwashed.'
WTF?
Do you fffeel me?
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* Quote from "Dead Language" by John Harrigan
R E S P O N S E S, HOT & UNCUT:
- P. Emerson Williams likes this.
P. Emerson Williams Time for a new myth.February 13 at 5:42pm ·
PJ Moir 'Master,I protest! The stockmarket is not a game!'
'Dear Mr Bent, it is a game and it's an old game called "What can we get away with?"February 13 at 6:40pm · · 1 personLoading...
Mad Cyril It's a label we slap on the processes of buying and selling and negotiating prices, in what way do they not exist?February 13 at 10:48pm ·
Eve RymanOur Capital
Which art invested
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
...In the Free World® as in the Free Market.
Give us this day our daily profit
And forgive us our losses
As we forgive those who profit against us.
And lead us not into inflation
But deliver us from recession.
For thine is the kingdom,
And the power and the glory
For ever and ever
Amen.See MoreMonday at 12:17am · · 1 personLoading...
Jamie Jones always makes me laugh to watch people play monopoly and watch the winner counting their "money"..Monday at 2:42am ·
Tobie OpenshawYeah I have to agree. "The market" and "money" are both constructs, labels, totems, symbols, call them what you will, but they do represent something that exists. i work for a software company. We have a "market for our products". We can id...entify the customers by type and demographic, identify their needs (or create them, sure) and satisfy those needs. We can also identify the channels through which we "market" our products to them. Those software boxes are definitely not walking out the door by themselves, so I'm going to hazard a guess that they have "found their market."See MoreTuesday at 6:06pm ·
- Tobie OpenshawAs to "money" - Whether you are playing Monopoly or the stock market, "money" is either pieces of paper or numbers on a screen, but they represent value, they can be exchanged for a boathouse in St Tropez, or a little plastic hotel on Broa...dway. Either way, it represents value in the milieu in which it operates, and therefore there is nothing strange about people playing Monopoly counting their "money", since in that environment it represents sucess, winning the game, being able to acquire more property, etc.See MoreTuesday at 6:09pm ·
- Mad Cyril Xx: yeah. (And what Tobie said, too. You know long-distance trading started a long time ago, back in the Bronze Age at least, and I bet local trading goes back a long way before that. Where there's trade, there's a market, even if you're only trading some stone spearpoints for a couple of sheep skins.Yesterday at 1:02am ·
- Tobie Openshaw ... but feel free to expound further on why you think THE MARKET doesn't exist, I'm willing to be swayed :)Yesterday at 1:05am ·
- Eve RymanI agree, Cyril - the Market exists.
I think perhaps what X is getting at, though, is the way that society treats economic cycles as though they were inevitable laws of nature, when in fact they're human-made and so driven by forces we contro...l. There's something almost superstitious in this - it treats the market as though it were a god to be placated, rather than a phenomenon that's actually entirely under human control. Like the morning after the last UK election, when the newsreaders weren't asking "what will this government be like?" but "what do the markets think of the new government?" (ie. "did our voting placate the angry god?").See MoreYesterday at 1:08am · · 1 personLoading... - Xanadu XeroI'm frustrated by my inability to communicate. Yes obviously it EXISTS but *only because we all say it does.* If we all said uniformly that it DOESN'T it would cease existing, it's not a mountain or a rock. It's a collective hallucination.... What stands between us and MASSIVE CHANGE is our inability to co-ordinate these things because we slip'n'slide on our animal nature a.k.a. ME NOT YOU - altruism is an afterthought, not in our machine. Animal brain default dominates. Always, when it's of consequence.See More18 minutes ago ·
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