Financial markets are not coupled to real economics anymore.
They’re coupled to speculative gamesmanship. Whoever can generate statistics to captivate the masses who do not understand them, via press releases, and media blitzes.
That sounds cynical, but I “hob nob” with people invited to Davos, and run depts at Ivy League schools.
Behind closed doors these are the conversations I’ve been privy too. How to captivate the “market” which is a euphemism created years ago to replace the religious concept of “flock”.
Mirror neurons really challenge the correctness of any wisdom to come from business leaders. It’s a pantomime, ingratiate ourselves before the socially rich
People see taxation as theft of property. I see it as reminding people there are no Gods or kings.
Dig around in C land and you’ll find 100s of opinions, even more libs and toolkits that came and went out of fashion.
Web stacks are “computing” to industry right now. In the 80s and 90s it was OS and database.
If low-level had the old economic attention, we’d see the same activity and mess as we did in the 80s and 90s. Everyone has a compiler to tell you about, and a build system DSL that’s just right for your problem!
But big corp largely controls that and so a new layer of abstraction was added via web, and we’re seeing a shift now to less UI, and machine driven decision making that just gives us the next step in the recipe.
Frankly I don’t mind technology for navigating human society; buying stuff and literal navigation.
I still unplug with musical instruments and the forest.
The addictive applications we’ve built in technology; games, social and multimedia, got really banal for me a long time ago. If I hear things like “Itsa me, Mario” or something about Halo I recoil at the cringe.
I guess I don’t want my psychedelic noise wrapped up in branding and consumerism.
A person is a particle and their influence is a wave.
I’m not so sure light is both, but our cognition enables seeing it as both.
Mirror neurons fire when we engage a behavior or see it performed.
Our culture is built upon a meme repeating protectionist like chants for the rich, deflation for the middle class, and stagnation of the poor.
Repeat, fire mirror neurons.
It’s not perfect mind control though cause once you know how the sausage is made, why give that particle (rich person) reverence?