jeffrey emerson can’t think

well crap. everybody’s getting their teeth kicked in. Jobs in every echelon of society are slipping through the porous underbelly of a capitalism that has fulfilled its own destiny. I’m pissed at the executives who took our money to pad their pockets on the way out. I think they should be hung up on a one tree hill and stoned within an inch of their lives. But Capitalism taught them to steal, survival of the fittest, be smarter than the average bear, use and abuse the system to your advantage. Have I paid off all my student loans? Hell no!! Will I ever? Not If I can help it. That attitudes not good if I expect future students to attend college with loans from the government. I’m ruining it for everyone else,  because I was raised to think that I want to win, I want to separate myself from the crowd, I do not want to go down with the ship. In that sense the behavior of said slimy executives who used fed bail out money to pad their coffers one last time was in the spirit of Darwin. Wouldn’t you do the same thing if you could figure out how? Of course you would, any good capitalist would. When a new 99 cent store opens, they sell ipod nano’s for 99 cents. People line up around the block. They camp to get a twelve pack of frito’s products for 99 cents. Do people actually need these items? No. But who in their right mind would say no to a 99 cent ipod? That’s Value people. And in capitalism a  good deal is god.

 We’re in a depression. Is this new era a conspiracy crafted by the old money families of the gilded age? I don’t think so. Have you heard about the Amero? The devaluation of the dollar? Two of my friends, coming from diametrically opposite walks of life, both believe that this world depression is a super conspiracy engineered by the oldest money on the planet. If you can crash all the world markets to the point where the current currency (i.e. the dollar, the euro) is worth absolutely nothing, you can introduce a new currency that’s backed with water, oil, oranges, any commodity that is not  gold  and never was. If you, a person more private than the federal government, are in charge of distributing and determining the value of this new currency, what’s to stop you from controlling the world? AHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAH! AHAHAHAHAHAH! I will make these humans my minions!!!! One of the people who buys into this theory is an entrepreneur worth millions, the other is a yoga instructor who is currently out of the country.  I don’t believe the global economic crisis is a conspiracy. I believe it is the result of three decades of boom, three decades of people reluctant to take responsibilty for their consumption. The greatest tragedy will happen when people forget the environment as they continue to bitch about where the money’s gone. The truth is that the global economy and the global environment are forever connected and dependent on eachother. It is no wonder that they slip and slide together. We must consider one as we attempt to fix the other. This young lady puts it a lot better than I possibly can at the ripe old age of 33.