Attention: Opinion ahead. Not to be taken as advice, or fact.
What if this is it, folks? What if this latest economic punch in the gut is final proof that American capitalism is built on nothing more than shady deals by slimy, greedy troglodytes? Ladies and gentleman, we fucked up real estate. REAL ESTATE. The one thing that everyone always said couldn't be shaken. The one thing we all were told to get our hands on, build our credit towards and stack out dreams upon. Mother of GOD, how could we mess up something so simple? Did these folks with greedy eyes bigger than their stomachs get bored with all their stuff, or were they maybe reminiscing over the tech bubble of the 90's?
Slime 1: Hey Phil, I miss the days of over-valued junk companies.
Slime 2: Me too, Jerry.
Slime 1: Those were the salad days.
Slime 2: You know what we haven't messed with in a while? Real Estate.
Slime 1: An over-valued housing market, with predatory lending and ballooning prices?
Slime 2: Now you're thinking like a slime ball, Phil.
Slime 1: You think we could end up destroying the country's economic foundation in the process?
Slime 2: Dude, this is real estate. No way.
I realize I'm over-simplifying and stereotyping, but does anyone else get the feeling we just blew our chances at a free and civilized existence? Doesn't it appear that, from the collapsing economy, unsettled mid-East and a general global hatred for America, the bad guys won? That really all this brotherly love, land of free, tired and huddle masses crap was just the candy storefront, housing four mafia "cleaners" in the back?
Oh, and us common folk of everyday society easily share the blame... I mean, either we just don't care anymore, or we're all too wrapped up in what's in it for us, to notice. Winter's coming and people in the Northeast are gonna freeze to death because every time Iran shoots off a missile, investors get scared and ratchet up oil another eight bucks. And if you ask someone in Southern California, they say, "At least I don't live in the North. Better them than me."
For Christ's sake, people! That's akin to answering "Don't get me sick" when I say I have a cold. It's all about you and how big your fish can get in that little pond, isn't? Everyone seems to think they have it all figured out... For themselves.
I'm convinced a big part of the problem was that three people blogged their opinions into cyberspace one day, but they were really good at marketing, see... so they got millions of people to read their opinions, see... And society, being a lazy bunch of lemmings, took that opinion as fact... And it snowballed into things like the FOX News and webcomics and Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray and ... (huff huff huff...)
Sorry, but I'm damned pissed.
As a rule, I'm not a big fan of others... However, I still hold respect for my fellow man and his hard-earned possessions. I just hope I can do the right thing when I'm offered the opportunity to screw the system for my own gain.
Back to the bunker. I have beer, if anyone wants to join me.
Over and out,
Das Faketh Rockstario
Slime 1: Hey Phil, I miss the days of over-valued junk companies.
Slime 2: Me too, Jerry.
Slime 1: Those were the salad days.
Slime 2: You know what we haven't messed with in a while? Real Estate.
Slime 1: An over-valued housing market, with predatory lending and ballooning prices?
Slime 2: Now you're thinking like a slime ball, Phil.
Slime 1: You think we could end up destroying the country's economic foundation in the process?
Slime 2: Dude, this is real estate. No way.
I realize I'm over-simplifying and stereotyping, but does anyone else get the feeling we just blew our chances at a free and civilized existence? Doesn't it appear that, from the collapsing economy, unsettled mid-East and a general global hatred for America, the bad guys won? That really all this brotherly love, land of free, tired and huddle masses crap was just the candy storefront, housing four mafia "cleaners" in the back?
Oh, and us common folk of everyday society easily share the blame... I mean, either we just don't care anymore, or we're all too wrapped up in what's in it for us, to notice. Winter's coming and people in the Northeast are gonna freeze to death because every time Iran shoots off a missile, investors get scared and ratchet up oil another eight bucks. And if you ask someone in Southern California, they say, "At least I don't live in the North. Better them than me."
For Christ's sake, people! That's akin to answering "Don't get me sick" when I say I have a cold. It's all about you and how big your fish can get in that little pond, isn't? Everyone seems to think they have it all figured out... For themselves.
I'm convinced a big part of the problem was that three people blogged their opinions into cyberspace one day, but they were really good at marketing, see... so they got millions of people to read their opinions, see... And society, being a lazy bunch of lemmings, took that opinion as fact... And it snowballed into things like the FOX News and webcomics and Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray and ... (huff huff huff...)
Sorry, but I'm damned pissed.
As a rule, I'm not a big fan of others... However, I still hold respect for my fellow man and his hard-earned possessions. I just hope I can do the right thing when I'm offered the opportunity to screw the system for my own gain.
Back to the bunker. I have beer, if anyone wants to join me.
Over and out,
Das Faketh Rockstario
posted by Fake Rockstar at 2:22 PM
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2 Comments:
Don't blame the bloggers. This shit started with Rush Limpdick back in the early 1980's, when good ole' Ronnie Ray-gun overturned the Fairness Doctrine and thereby let Rush start prattling his idiocies to a wider audience than just the pointy-hat types at his local Klavern. And lo and behold, turns out that other pointy-hat types preferred listening to Rush and his show took off and it just went on from there until you have one scam show after another on "talk" radio all corroding the brains of America with their toxic shit. This stuff predated blogs by twenty effin' years. If anything, it's been bloggers who've been the lone voices of sanity out here while all the "cool kids" were sayin', "housing prices will never go down." Really? Heh!
- Badtux the Bloggin' Penguin
I see multiple points scored in this officially non-factual Opinion: it's got a lot of truth. And it's earnest too. Could be true prophecy.
Except I don't buy the conclusion so much. Yes it's incredible that we can screw up real estate, and yes it's pathetic that the same sleazy way it happened has been repeating itself.
But technology and the Internet still work for us just fine post-DotComBust. More people than in ages have awakened to the idiocy of the Agenda Pundits. The only ones permanently hurt are those who bought into the fantasies way too seriously, with serious money. They lost sight of the inevitable reality around. The rest of us may be in fear now but we'll be okay.
Sure, I haven't been hurt by the RE bust, while others have. But still I say, there's no cause to get so caught up in the mess that we lose sight of the inevitable reality: that real estate will be back (if it ever left) with its intrinsic value as a product, long after the speculation wreckage is gone.
And what will also remain is a new cautionary tale to add to the sad list. Even that is of value to us - if we just pay attention to it.
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