America is a Fraud
America is analogous to our favorite TV shows that have run their course. Like “Friends”. It was a great idea, had a ton of success, but in the end NBC was just trying to ride out a dead show for as long as possible. Inventing fake drama between Ross and Rachel is no longer entertaining. America is dead too. This country was built on the driving, inventive, and innovative minds that all gathered in the westward expanding United States. We were the frontier for great minds and the possibility for progress. No longer though.
That adventure is over. There is nothing special or unique about America anymore. We are just a bunch of boring assholes fighting a failing fight to maintain the status quo established by our fathers and grandfathers. Think about your life – every single one of us consumes about 1000 times more than we produce. Does that make any sense? The world is about to change, and it is going to start with the demise of America as we know it. Scary shit, but it is a good thing.
Does anything scream that we are at the beginning of the end louder than the Canadian Dollar now being more valuable than the US dollar? I mean Fuck. Canada? Really?
What are the greatest innovative minds doing today in the US? Bullshit. If I had to point to the most promising leaders in America it would have to be Apple or Google. They are doing a nice job. But seriously, what do they do? They create a bunch of intangible crap that nobody really needs. We are not going to build America’s future on an IPod or a super fast search engine. Or at least I hope not.
We have real issues and real opportunity in America. We have an energy crisis. Isn’t that an incredible market opportunity? Build a clean and renewable energy source, and that alone could drive America’s economy for the next century.
Why doesn’t America build super fast bullet trains? I guarantee that the technology exists to build a train that could connect Seattle to Vancouver BC and make the commute less than an hour. Same with Spokane and Portland. Is there not a market for that?
Anyways, the point is that we continue to try and force the dream of America by playing games with our currency and foreign policy and fake profits in corporate America. There is no way we will be able to perpetrate the fraud of America for much longer, and thank God for that. I would rather live in a real world that rewards real productivity, than faking my way through life and gambling my future on our government’s ability to continue to convince China that our dollar is actually worth anything.
The sooner the better if you ask me. Moral of the story? Sell your stocks, invest it in gold or platinum, and start figuring out what we are going to do in our next life after this ultra-consumer based fraud of America is debunked in the near future. I pray that I live long enough to see it happen, and I will be surprised if I don’t.
Sunday, February 3 at 12:31 pm
I completly agree with everyting you just said about the US economic situation Kev.
My main thought on the US and it’s seemingly inevitable demise is that people in this country are too selfish and too arrogant to ever make the sacrifices neccesary to make things right. From my experience people in the United States honestly believe they are better than and deserve to live at a standard higher than the rest of the world. Where they got this sense of entitlement I really do not understand. The fact that your great grandpa worked his ass off to me doesn’t entitle you to shit. If anything it should just make you feel worse about how you have completly cheapened everything I have been told America once stood for.
The more time I have spent outside of the US the less hope I have for this country. Not only that but the more I actually think we deserve everything that happens to us. The fucked up thing is while we are all sitting here buying new i-phones, flat screen tvs, and PS3s there are literally billions of people living in absolute poverty. The sad thing is that if you asked 90% of the people in the US to give up that useless shit they buy to impress other people in order to feed, house, and medicate the rest of the world they wouldn’t even think about doing it.
The US like all places is made up of a majority good people, but until people realized that the rest of the world has just as much a right to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness as we do I am going to have a hard time saying I am proud to be an american.
Sunday, February 3 at 10:06 pm
First off, I just cast my mail-in ballot for Ron Paul today. The revolution is coming.
Jesus you guys are pessimistic. Sure there is a lot of reasons to be pissed off about America, but its not like they cant be fixed. Remember the Constitution, I think it has some good ideas. Because of it we can decide outlaw slavery and give women voting rights. We didnt invent the idea of being free by any means, but I think we can change things in America like in no where else in the world since the beginning of humanity.
Kevin, you should head up the idea to build the bullet train with the technology that you guarantee exists if it is such a good idea. I mean this is America, you can do anything you want. Also I am confused when you say Steve Jobs is one of the most promising leaders in our country, he is a salesman who sells high-end gadgets nothing more. Google on the other hand has one mission, “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” I dont think they fit into your makers of intangible crap category.
Monday, February 4 at 8:53 am
Back to bullet points
-For the record I don’t remember ever supporting or ever even thinking about the idea of a bullet train. But on your suggestion Parker I will see what I can do.
-The constitution was a great idea 200 years ago, but today it is outdated and almost completely irrelevant. We can take out the basic good principals from it, but it like all things must evolve and eventually die when it is not functional anymore.
-I like Ron Paul and will also be voting for him, but honestly is someone like him ever going to actually win an election in the US. I like to think people are getting smarter and starting to realize what a fucking retarded system we have, but I will believe it when I see it.
Monday, February 4 at 9:00 am
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Scientists_shatter_world_land_speed_record_at_Holloman
Parker- Read it and weep. Oh you’re back home in Spokane for the weekend? I’ll be there in 5 minutes. Sure I might have some temporary blindness and broken limbs, but still that’s quick.
Corey- If you’re looking for a business partner I’m currently available. We should probably look into marketing that hopping robot as well.
Monday, February 4 at 9:22 am
I agree that America can be fixed Parker, I just think it starts with ruining the version of it that we currently know.
The value of today’s dollar is fictional, and when the world realized that, there are going to be some drastic changes.
I site google and Apple as today’s leaders because in my opinion, the key to America’s future in innovation. Apple does just sell gadgets, but their huges successes are based off of innovation. Same with google, which I agree, creates a more relevant and important product.
I just wish that the innovative minds of America were focusing on more important crap.
I don’t think we should let Honda define the answer to today’s energy crisis with their electric motor.
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/?from=fcx.honda.com
That kind of innovation needs to be happening in America, to drive our economy’s future.
The dollar used to be backed by gold, but now the only reason people buy into the dollar’s value is that the major oil distributors in the world price their barrels with the dollar. Oil = today’s version of gold, so essentially the dollar is backed by oil.
Why does the middle east continue to pretend that the dollar is worth anything and price their oil with the dollar rather than the Euro? Not because it makes any sense, but because we threaten them with war, and protect them with our power if they meet our oil demands.
See Saddam – he threatened to sell his oil at the Euro – and then we made up a war and killed him.
See Iran – they are currently planning on changing from the dollar to the Euro, and what do you know, we are trying to whip up another war.
At some point, China is going to call our bluff and quit accepting our worthless dollar, most likely this will happen when we can no longer afford to wage unjustified wars throughout the middle east.
It is all about to collapse on us, and we will have to rebuild the value of the dollar on true productivity, not just the current quick fixes that our government uses that mortgages our future.
America is skrewed, but I agree we have the power to bring it back.
And I do intend to build a bullet train – I just don’t think that it is a realistic goal in the near future.
Monday, February 4 at 3:44 pm
I don’t know if you were mocking my bullet train plan, or if you are actually encouraging me to do it but the technology already exists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen
The new trains they are planning to build will go up to 199 MPH – it is only 140 miles to Vancouver. Its only 280 miles to spokane, so what, like an hour and a half trip home for the weekend?
If I had the capital I would build that sucker for the Winter Olympics and would be rich.
It is only 680 miles to San Fransisco – is there no market for a 3.5 hour train ride from Seattle to SF? just sayin…
Monday, February 4 at 6:32 pm
People, I am aware of the bullet train, mag-lev train, bicycle and other forms of energy efficient transportation. Again, this is America, you do not have to come up with the capital yourself, just a solvent business plan.
Monday, February 4 at 7:00 pm
Who is going to finance me Parker? My local WAMU branch?
Monday, February 4 at 7:11 pm
My dad has got financing for much less feasible projects than this bullet train idea.
Tuesday, February 5 at 9:08 am
Kevin – I do not suggest going in to a local banking office. A print out from hoboboobies.wordpress.com as a business plan will probably get you laughed out of their offices. I suggest getting a hold of the same people that bank roll real estate developer Chuck Q. Johnson (Cojo Sr), they seem to have more money than they know what to do with.
Hmmm or.. you storm Seattle with townhall style meetings wearing a red suit and wide brimmed hat to gain support for the bullet train. In which case I will then accuse you of being a lobbyist for Train Corporations and start a slander campaign to destroy your character. Good luck, Sir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_vs._the_Monorail
Thursday, September 25 at 8:22 pm
After the current weeks events, it appears we might all be homeless soon, but at least I will get to say “I told you so”.