Ted Rall for June 05, 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!)
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.