Post by fastwalker on Feb 11, 2006 14:36:13 GMT -5
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Yeah, I know some are thinking another long winded post by Fastwalker. Excuse me for being concerned about my fellow shareholders...
But the bottom line is this, you may never know why I write the things that I do. But you should consider that the information I give is useful and will, if used by the masses, result in a "collective" benefit for all.
I take the notion of a "shared commonality" seriously, that is why I first used the phrase. While some can't understand that concept, consider this, if we do not act as a unit, as a collective force to be bargained with, we are doomed to failure, as individuals when it come time to seek compensation....lol
In the meantime, take a look at this, some thoughts on how many are still being manipulated, It is something more to reflect on during one of many slow weekends that we have and will endure for a while longer, than ....will I be rich today?
While these thoughts are not unique to me, or some profound concept, I would ask that they be viewed as simply my take as it pertains to human ingenuity and it's misuse by those who would use it with criminal intent, especially where it involves manipulation of us for an someone else's agenda.
This post while not specifically targeting anyone person or entity per se, should be seen as just a broad statement, an observation if you will, of the events we deal with routinely as investors in the market place. Therefore, It is an opinion based on an assessment of events, presented by me as hypothetical dialog to stimulate interest in addressing and maybe resolving the problem we deal with in the market place.
In any human endeavor, where a prize is offered, some fail to play by the rules to obtain that prize. Some do so by accident, while others make that criminality decision a way of life.
These people have elevated deception to an Art form and are capable of creating the perception, within their chosen environment, fakes and deceptive simulations of a real event, so realistic, that it is getting harder to distinguish the bad from the good. These exceptional fakes are also used as the template and imitated, with similar successes, until someone cracks the veneer realism to expose the ugly deception festering underneath.
The sheer number of crooks and their fakes that exist within all aspects of human life, is overwhelming. Which has in my humble opinion, resulted in a very public transformation of our basic psychology and behavior, from outrage, to one of acceptance and a bitterly aggressive approach to life and business demonstrated by the “screw that, I’ll get mine up front next time” mentality.
It is not uncommon to routinely experience confusion on a given subject matter, in which we are required to determine realism from fakes and simulations, when we are attempting to better ourselves and position in life. We often experience confusion when we are inundated with a barrage of advertisements, PRs, word of mouth endorsements. As a result of technology, human ingenuity and our own needs and desires and yes even trust, we have created a society in which much of the culture and politics, as well as the economy, is geared toward massive deception on a huge scale, our accepting and then consuming fakes.
We essentially have evolved as a society, in which many deceptions are routinely and meticulously crafted, then maintained specifically with the intent to be mistaken for the real thing. Unfortunately, as demonstrated within the market place, when theses deceptions are discovered, many shareholders and the public in general are precluded from compensation from the discovery.
Why? Because the Federal Government has a mechanism in place to deal with the deception., a mechanism which often benefits the Feds , society in general by levying and collecting fines from the offender, but very rarely does such compensation trickle down to those most egregiously harmed, who are injured and need real compensation to correct the wrong.
In the market place where such situations are rampant in the pinkies, we are not delivered intact from these occurrences, instead we are repeatedly forced, by the Feds’s CAVEAT EMPTOR, into developing new survival skills that help us as individuals, unmask these deceptions and illusions which are routinely perpetrated on us.
Perhaps the recent buzz around the NSS will evoke from those elected official who still retain a smidgen of consciousness relevant to their obligation to actually serve the public at large, will enact laws that are clearly labeled, or clearly marked to avoid confusion on what NSS is and how to deal with it.
I would also hope that they replicate these Laws to also address all other forms of market manipulation. Obviously the tired retort that we have laws on the books to deal with these issues is flawed at some level. I would suggest that these areas problematic to the execution of these “laws on the books,” be identified and removed, regardless of the “political” ramifications.
As a society we are required by evolution to adapt to change. But adapting to deception as a way of life is unacceptable. Granted the blame can be place at the door step of the SEC, but they are not the entirely the problem, their “masters” in Congress are the root of the problem, simply because they have failed to maintain a consistent level of oversight on the SEC / Market place and identify, tweak, repair, remove or create new laws to ensure the market place’s daily operations.
The SEC claims that procedures and maybe crime fighting techniques are in place or being developed to unmask deceptions. But lets face it, as the investor on the ground, at the front lines, most of us are learning from experience how to spot telltale flaws in the otherwise convincing illusions of a real business entity.
One could argue that the SEC and Congress and not the small investor, are the ones involved in a game of catch-up, especially when these deceptions are becoming more convincing, and pervasive in the pinkies and also on the other “markets” where our routine complaints go unheeded, or ridiculed by those charged with protecting us and our interests.
I’ll leave you with these real and frightening thoughts, as set forth by Stanislaw Lem, a Polish science fiction writer, in his novel The Futurological Congress. And his usages of brilliant metaphors for the way deceptions are being used to manipulate the public. Lem portrays a future civilization in which humanity sees an illusory world not through a television screen but directly through its own manipulated experiences.
A pharmacological dictatorship is secretly spraying drugs into the air that cause everyone to hallucinate a world of luxury, personal health and modern convenience when, in fact, society, the environment and people's actual physical integrity are in a state of collapse.
In effect, Lem portrays the greatest act of deception in history, in which humanity has been trapped in a kind of psychological stage set in order to cover up the end of the world.
Unable to perceive their true situation, people are helpless to change events. At the end of the novel, the main character, who believes he is marooned in this world of collective madness, comes to his senses and the reader discovers that this future society is itself, nothing more than the character’s hallucination (Of course, by the end, the reader has no way to be sure that the character’s discovery that he has been hallucinating isn’t itself a hallucination.)
Thus Lem allows the reader to learn firsthand what it is like to be deceived by appearances.
Lem’s novel points to one of the central principles of contemporary life: The ability to manipulate events and perceptions is a form of power and the inability to see through deceptions is a form of powerlessness. Those who manipulate appearances, today, exercise power over those who are taken in by appearances.
Sorry for the rant...I should probaly stick to simply saying...."WE'RE DOOMED, DOOMED I TELL YOU"
or try this to get everyone's attention....
fw
Yeah, I know some are thinking another long winded post by Fastwalker. Excuse me for being concerned about my fellow shareholders...
But the bottom line is this, you may never know why I write the things that I do. But you should consider that the information I give is useful and will, if used by the masses, result in a "collective" benefit for all.
I take the notion of a "shared commonality" seriously, that is why I first used the phrase. While some can't understand that concept, consider this, if we do not act as a unit, as a collective force to be bargained with, we are doomed to failure, as individuals when it come time to seek compensation....lol
In the meantime, take a look at this, some thoughts on how many are still being manipulated, It is something more to reflect on during one of many slow weekends that we have and will endure for a while longer, than ....will I be rich today?
While these thoughts are not unique to me, or some profound concept, I would ask that they be viewed as simply my take as it pertains to human ingenuity and it's misuse by those who would use it with criminal intent, especially where it involves manipulation of us for an someone else's agenda.
This post while not specifically targeting anyone person or entity per se, should be seen as just a broad statement, an observation if you will, of the events we deal with routinely as investors in the market place. Therefore, It is an opinion based on an assessment of events, presented by me as hypothetical dialog to stimulate interest in addressing and maybe resolving the problem we deal with in the market place.
In any human endeavor, where a prize is offered, some fail to play by the rules to obtain that prize. Some do so by accident, while others make that criminality decision a way of life.
These people have elevated deception to an Art form and are capable of creating the perception, within their chosen environment, fakes and deceptive simulations of a real event, so realistic, that it is getting harder to distinguish the bad from the good. These exceptional fakes are also used as the template and imitated, with similar successes, until someone cracks the veneer realism to expose the ugly deception festering underneath.
The sheer number of crooks and their fakes that exist within all aspects of human life, is overwhelming. Which has in my humble opinion, resulted in a very public transformation of our basic psychology and behavior, from outrage, to one of acceptance and a bitterly aggressive approach to life and business demonstrated by the “screw that, I’ll get mine up front next time” mentality.
It is not uncommon to routinely experience confusion on a given subject matter, in which we are required to determine realism from fakes and simulations, when we are attempting to better ourselves and position in life. We often experience confusion when we are inundated with a barrage of advertisements, PRs, word of mouth endorsements. As a result of technology, human ingenuity and our own needs and desires and yes even trust, we have created a society in which much of the culture and politics, as well as the economy, is geared toward massive deception on a huge scale, our accepting and then consuming fakes.
We essentially have evolved as a society, in which many deceptions are routinely and meticulously crafted, then maintained specifically with the intent to be mistaken for the real thing. Unfortunately, as demonstrated within the market place, when theses deceptions are discovered, many shareholders and the public in general are precluded from compensation from the discovery.
Why? Because the Federal Government has a mechanism in place to deal with the deception., a mechanism which often benefits the Feds , society in general by levying and collecting fines from the offender, but very rarely does such compensation trickle down to those most egregiously harmed, who are injured and need real compensation to correct the wrong.
In the market place where such situations are rampant in the pinkies, we are not delivered intact from these occurrences, instead we are repeatedly forced, by the Feds’s CAVEAT EMPTOR, into developing new survival skills that help us as individuals, unmask these deceptions and illusions which are routinely perpetrated on us.
Perhaps the recent buzz around the NSS will evoke from those elected official who still retain a smidgen of consciousness relevant to their obligation to actually serve the public at large, will enact laws that are clearly labeled, or clearly marked to avoid confusion on what NSS is and how to deal with it.
I would also hope that they replicate these Laws to also address all other forms of market manipulation. Obviously the tired retort that we have laws on the books to deal with these issues is flawed at some level. I would suggest that these areas problematic to the execution of these “laws on the books,” be identified and removed, regardless of the “political” ramifications.
As a society we are required by evolution to adapt to change. But adapting to deception as a way of life is unacceptable. Granted the blame can be place at the door step of the SEC, but they are not the entirely the problem, their “masters” in Congress are the root of the problem, simply because they have failed to maintain a consistent level of oversight on the SEC / Market place and identify, tweak, repair, remove or create new laws to ensure the market place’s daily operations.
The SEC claims that procedures and maybe crime fighting techniques are in place or being developed to unmask deceptions. But lets face it, as the investor on the ground, at the front lines, most of us are learning from experience how to spot telltale flaws in the otherwise convincing illusions of a real business entity.
One could argue that the SEC and Congress and not the small investor, are the ones involved in a game of catch-up, especially when these deceptions are becoming more convincing, and pervasive in the pinkies and also on the other “markets” where our routine complaints go unheeded, or ridiculed by those charged with protecting us and our interests.
I’ll leave you with these real and frightening thoughts, as set forth by Stanislaw Lem, a Polish science fiction writer, in his novel The Futurological Congress. And his usages of brilliant metaphors for the way deceptions are being used to manipulate the public. Lem portrays a future civilization in which humanity sees an illusory world not through a television screen but directly through its own manipulated experiences.
A pharmacological dictatorship is secretly spraying drugs into the air that cause everyone to hallucinate a world of luxury, personal health and modern convenience when, in fact, society, the environment and people's actual physical integrity are in a state of collapse.
In effect, Lem portrays the greatest act of deception in history, in which humanity has been trapped in a kind of psychological stage set in order to cover up the end of the world.
Unable to perceive their true situation, people are helpless to change events. At the end of the novel, the main character, who believes he is marooned in this world of collective madness, comes to his senses and the reader discovers that this future society is itself, nothing more than the character’s hallucination (Of course, by the end, the reader has no way to be sure that the character’s discovery that he has been hallucinating isn’t itself a hallucination.)
Thus Lem allows the reader to learn firsthand what it is like to be deceived by appearances.
Lem’s novel points to one of the central principles of contemporary life: The ability to manipulate events and perceptions is a form of power and the inability to see through deceptions is a form of powerlessness. Those who manipulate appearances, today, exercise power over those who are taken in by appearances.
Sorry for the rant...I should probaly stick to simply saying...."WE'RE DOOMED, DOOMED I TELL YOU"
or try this to get everyone's attention....
fw
