kunstler herein speaks about his experiences, which i assume most of us can recognize in a second, and commiserate with as well;
And this solemn night a great stillness falls upon the land as the
Leviathan of Washington is sent to its room to get its mind straight,
and the USA gets on with collapse in earnest. There will be no visions
of sugarplums for the Deep Staters as the government enters its induced
coma, only premonitions of anarchy and insolvency, and perhaps some dim
nostalgia for that golden age when things seemed to work in America. On
the plus side of things, this may be the last year of Christmas
shaming. Even the Wokesters of Wokesterdom appear weary and bored with
Wokesterism — isn’t that a blessing?
I have a theory for what is behind the decline and fall of this once
proud and capable country: nobody answers the phone. This one change in
consensual social behavior has enabled virtually everyone in authority
to evade responsibility for what they do. Corporations especially don’t
want to be bothered by their pain-in-the-ass customers with their
tedious complaints and demands. Every time I see the smirking face of
that quasi-autistic ninny, Bill Gates, I have to wonder why he doesn’t
apply a tiny fraction of his gargantuan fortune to hire a few actual
humans to answer the phone at Microsoft instead of that insulting
tele-robot. I suppose it would hurt his feelings to learn how badly his
own products work, especially just after you purchase MS Office — as I
had to do last week with the 2019 upgrade — and flounder your way
through the maze of protocols to get the damn thing up-and-running.
Forgive the excursion into personal reminiscence, but I remember the
time some decades back when I was a 26-year-old reporter on what was
then called a newspaper (as opposed to a bulletin of moral instruction
from Wokesterdom). I could call just about any company in the land
saying I was a reporter for ________ and get the Chief Executive on the
phone in a New York minute. (It ain’t bragging if it’s true.) This was
the case, of course, for thousands of other reporters on hundreds of
newspapers in America. If a story was especially dicey, you could work
your way up the whole C-suite food chain collecting all kinds of
contradictory, ass-covering information until you got to the Big Orca at
the top, and lever his mouth open with what you learned from his
underlings. It worked when dealing with the government too. You could
lay a line of talk on some receptionist — say, invoking the term “grand
jury” — and get her boss on the phone pronto. I think it went quite a
ways to keeping the people who run things honest.........http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/merry-christmas-to-all/
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