DAVE | 2007-08-31
ME:
This is a coaching session from Dave.
I left out his final comment on marijuana because I think commenters would obsess on that one paragraph. I hope this is an undeserved insult, but I hope it is useful cautionary one:
DAVE:
TV is an irrelevant thing because of the Internet. The real minds on the Internet show through like a cop's 500-lumen flashlight. It has been fascinating to watch the Internet's influence on the markets. The whole market commentariat evolves together with lightening speed based upon the highest IQs. I can trace the influencers with complete transparency and immediately detect those who have failed their homework or whose intellectual horsepower isn't up to snuff.
This is a new world with its speed and access for those with IQ horsepower. The blocking intermediary has been flushed out and passes to elite clubs have been made much easier to obtain.
This process is in early stages. Take a look at Facebook.com. Facebook.com is yet another incipient engine of conspiracy, a fabulous tool in intelligent hands for loyalty coupled with a conspiracy is a badge of social class.
For example, I remember as a kid the Patty Hearst saga: These "revolutionaries" calling themselves the "Symbionese Revolutionary Army" sold each other out in the less than 5 seconds flat. Revolutionaries indeed! They were double-digit IQ mutt niggers pretending to be revolutionaries.
Pretending is something we do profusely as kids and we don't usually drop the habit in adulthood. The kid who put together Facebook.com is a revolutionary. He is not a pretender. He puts to shame all Wordists.
Responsibility is there for those willing to shoulder it and pretending comes to an end when you realize our world is far more deterministic than our "rising expectations" culture dares to acknowledge. Fear takes the driver's seat, ebbing and flowing over great secular eras. It has been so long since America has known the flow, the mass of Americans have forgotten it exists, yet the competitive struggle deepens and the consequences for delusion become ever more onerous.