I might be a bear market.
Slow, lumbering, reflective -Volatile. The kind of personality few want to engage with, but are forced to learn how to, or suffer even more. There is no escaping the reality, I just have to be accepted as part of life.
Depressing.
Or something like that.
I like conversations about serious topics. But this doesn't mean I am a serious person however, as for the most part, I am not. Instead, I tend to approach serious topics with a sense of humour, because I believe that it is never too soon to have a laugh and it is probably in the best interest to do so.
The discourse is too aggressive.
Due to the incentives of online media ad interaction, it is in individual best interests to take the worst possible view of others - especially those on the "other side" of opinion. Instead of assuming the best, the worst is an easier leverage to score a point that makes the individual feel good, but costs society. Everyone is looking to maximize their good feelings, at the expense of everyone else.
It is a economic process.
As all behaviours are in the sense that everything we are trying to do is improve our resource availability. However, over the last several decades the personal resource evaluations have shifted from the physical and mental skill-based resources, to the emotional. As long as we feel good, it doesn't matter if we are failing in all the other aspects of our life. Not does it matter if our good feeling cones at the expense of others - even people we might care about, or could care about.
We choose to distance ourselves from others.
You might disagree, but whenever someone is looking to make themselves feel unique through assigning themselves a label,they are also isolating themselves from other. They are claiming to be different and as such, they are trying to be exclusive. It doesn't matter if 99.9% of DNA and behaviours are shared, it is the 0.1% that is used to explain why nothing else applies to them.
The zero point one percent.
Similarly to how the 0.1% of the population control the vast majority of resources, in individuals, that fraction of a difference plays mammoth role in dictating behaviours and opinions about oneself, others, and the world at large. This is the case,even though we are all largely the same.
It would be interesting to consider all the overlapping things that we require as humans to live and the resources it takes to provide it. And then the amount of resources that are spent on what we don't need to live. I would assume that the average person spends far more resources on what they don't need, than what they do.
You?
But because if our ability to create fantasy worlds in our mind to justify our actions, we can raise what we don't need in the hierarchy and warrant spending more resources on it, because it makes us feel better. And this is justified because our feelings have so much value.
Which is interesting.
Because because of we evaluate the current state of mental ad emotional health in society, we are in a deep bear market and it is getting deeper. The more resources we have spent on our feelings, the worse we feel. And I think that this is economically predictable by the simple supply and demand model.
The more we demand, the more supplied.
And this is also visible in the financial markets too, where the corporations and business models used to maximize wealth, are based on offering improved feelings. The worse people feel, the more money the model makes. Even the business of war is based on emotional feelings, rather than practical needs.
Not very humorous.
But what can you expect from a bear?
Taraz
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