Ted Rall for June 05, 2013
June 03, 2013
June 07, 2013
Transcript:
Manufacturing is dead. The internet makes money for 7 people. Next comes terrornomics. (Man: The only way to catch self-radicalized terrorists is for 1/2 the population to spy on the other 1/2 like in East Germany.) (Barack Obama: Full employment, here we come!) In the new paranoid security state, everyone is afraid of everyone- and fear is monetizable. The next logical step: The creation and marketing of exotic. Fear-based derivatives. Since everyone is distracted by fear, no one notices that the underlying fears are actualy low-grade phobias and anxieties. (Woman: Bedwetting? Baldness?!?) (Man 2: As long as people keep buying, it's all good-er, bad.) All it takes to make the terror bubble burst is the realization of a sanguine, happy thought. (Man 3: I'll be fine. Whatever happens, happens.) (Television: Sell! Bernanke? Send cash now!)
taratus almost 11 years ago
I hadn’t realized that my baldness could be sliced and diced into a monetized fear derivative.
Kylop almost 11 years ago
Ted, well done. Tomorrow’s conventional wisdom indeed.
mattro65 almost 11 years ago
“Crazy Uncle Ted’s paranoia in print!” If you have nothing intelligent or original to say, you might as well use insults.
fofinho almost 11 years ago
Ted is onto something. If we monetize fear, then we can solve all our financial problems. Maybe we can also have the terrorists pay a terrorist tax based on the value of the fear they produce.
vhouse0 almost 11 years ago
This cartoon is a drone homing in on one of my favorite targets. We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Fourcrows almost 11 years ago
We already monetize fear. How many commercials are for security systems, Life-Alert buttons for our grandparents, prescription drugs for dubious symptoms of “illnesses”? How many people buy guns when the news shows a crime, or when someone says they will be made illegal? Why are we being told to set up investment portfolios or else we’ll be out on the street when we have to retire? We even have pay services that will perform a background check on anyone we want. We’re already the most fearful country on the planet, and there are already plenty of people making money off of that.
Zen-of-Zinfandel almost 11 years ago
In general it seems most of the white guys in this strip seem to resemble director John Waters…LOL
mattro65 almost 11 years ago
“Don’t feed the trolls.” I was hoping sunrise would catch it unaware.
Durak Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Just before the Bolshevik Revolution V. Lenin said " The worse things are, the better things are."
Lenin wanted things bad, wanted the Czar’s reforms to fail, so the people would support the end of the regime and the start of his.