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Jewboo
24th October 2013, 07:03 PM
A thought-provoking reader comment after THIS ARTICLE (http://www.theburningplatform.com/2013/09/10/trying-to-stay-sane-in-an-insane-world-at-worlds-end/)



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chindit13 says:

Jim Quinn writes well and does his homework (though some argue he hasn’t bought every plank of the mandatory party platform). That being said, what else is there to say?

There’s no more meat on the bone. All that can be said has been said, and we’ve all become just like the middle aged guy in the bar who retells the same tired tale about the touchdown he scored a thousand years ago in a meaningless high school championship game. We need new meat. Or maybe we should go vegan.

We’re all waiting for something that at best is coming at a glacial pace. How many ‘any second now’ crashes have we all predicted? How many dozens of the last zero Middle East wars have we guaranteed? How many times have we paid full fare “to da moon” for PMs, when the rocket keeps blowing up on the pad? How many have already passed on to the next Earthly iteration, or to some country club in the sky, or just become worm food, all prepped and ready for Financial or Social or Biblical Armageddon, and then departed somewhere between disappointed or contrite because, like the millions of The End is Near predictions our species has made since Eden, none has come true?

Perhaps—maybe I’ll just speak for myself—it would be a good idea to ignore the next thousand or so graphs that tell us nothing we don’t already know or nothing upon which we can make a concrete prediction with respect to time, and instead just go about enjoying a few of the all too brief moments of existence.

Everybody has been proven wrong. One would think after that experience, contrition, and maybe a little humility, would be the norm, rather than absolute certainty of belief that expresses itself in anger and bitterness.
I remember two things from my days doing the financially lucrative but socially meaningless job of trader: Early is wrong, and eventually the market discredits everybody, at least everybody who stays too long. A wise trader takes his chips when the pile is sufficient, and walks away. Perhaps there is a way for everyone to do the same thing, which might be like that old adage hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Is it useful to hope for the worst because that’s what we’ve prepared for and that’s what we’ve invested our ego in?

The system is wildly complex. Few or none can sift through all the noise and capture the key elements that will drive future events. To be consumed by fear or bitterness or anger, either because it’s all not fair, or because it hasn’t fallen apart at the speed and in the manner one guaranteed anyone who would listen, seems to be a waste of that aforementioned all too brief existence.

Maybe staying sane in an insane world is taking time to find something—other than schadenfreude—to enjoy. If bitterness and anger have become the sole source of joy and satisfaction, even addiction, then we have lost game, set and match.

Hot debate. What do you think?

10th September 2013 at 10:49 pm