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| The alternate-reality decade |
| 2009-12-30 |
| If you had invested $100 in the stock market in January 2000, by now it would be worth just $90. This has led some writers to describe the past 10 years as the lost decade. I disagree. Loss assumes an unconscious act of forgetfulness. This, by contrast, was a decade of deliberate escape, an era in time when America chose to enter an alternate reality. A 10-year interval where otherwise responsible citizens decided that the best way to deal with their problems was to simply ignore them. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 Any different from the previous decades when the rest of West and the international trading community relied solely upon America to provide its real security and economic foundation while all the time engaging in actions to undermine both? America just caught the disease everyone else was carrying, severe self centered behaviors. Things become 'interesting' when someone else is no longer around to provide the environment that made life comfortable. That creates anxiety and fear which can be read in the words they articulate. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k on vacation 2009-12-30 09:02 |