If you haven’t heard, we [the royal variety] are going through a little economic turbulence. It’s pretty big. All kinds of important people are soiling their underpants because of this. The main perpetrators who wouldn’t normally be aware of their contributions to these events have taken their blinders off and pissing themselves.
I’m getting a clearer picture into what people are like when they are untested. It’s a picture of a nation of people who are perfectly able and capable of intelligent thought, but prefer to abdicate that responsibility. Why? Because thinking is difficult and fatiguing. In general people tends towards more emotional responses. Hungry? Eat! Bored? Watch TV. Need money? Borrow!
And why should they expend any effort trying to think for themselves? All expectations have been lowered. After so many years of continually lowering expectations, what were we to expect? Greatness? People who can’t be bothered to understand their own finances aren’t great at anything but consuming. Basic arithmetic is supposed to tell a person the amount they’re making and spending should balance. That’s not the case. Of course, this is not done without precedence. The people in charge of leading us like people with poor parenting skills have provided the rest of us with a template to follow. Borrow. Spend. Repeat. They’ve since thrown out the tax part. At least when they were taxing, it was more palatable [to me at least] because there were those who actually used their fingers and toes to do some counting. Now the only thing they’re doing with their fingers is picking navel lint. Wherever the blame may lie, I can say with certainty that the large majority of it lies with us.