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!)
