IJesusChrist
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I know this may seem obvious to you guys, but stay positive.
My reasoning may be a little different, and I'm attributing it to the social phenomenon of the financial collapse world-wide.
Here is my interpretation of the financial collapse and what it really means to us:
Some bankers and investment companies made some major flawed mistakes a while back. Who knows exactly who, or when, but it happened. A lot of money was lost, enough to send the people in the company into a panic, and even the government felt the hit of the economics employed. However - nobody but these big companies and the government, which relies mutually on them were truly affected. Money didn't just disappear - it just went into an unexpected place - another bank, another corporation, somewhere. Money doesn't just "disappear". However, when this much money in this concentrated of a form seems to be stripped from large companies, we end up in bail outs and all types of weird financial things that make headlines.
In the long run, very little people will actually be affected by this. What happens if your bank becomes bankrupt? well - not much, you take your money out and go to a better bank.
Anyways, I could go on and talk about how this doesn't really matter to the average consumer (us) but that is beside the point. Rather, the point is, somehow, the media makes us believe that something is wrong. There is no financial crisis. There is no shortage of jobs. There IS a larger unemployment rate. Why, though?
It is psychology - purely. When we are subjected day to day with this idea that "the economy is going down the tubes" what does that really mean? Think about it... At first thought we think - oh no, jobs will stop hiring, I won't be able to get a job. But why? Why wouldn't you? Because there is a shortage of money? No... There isn't. The money didn't go anywhere.
So, we slowly can reveal the real dilemma is in the susceptibility of us as news-watchers in believing crises exist, when they do not affect us at all. In fact - what do big banks say to do when the economy is bad? Start spending. Why? Because the only problem to begin with is people get scared and stop spending.
I'm not endorsing you to go spend money, in fact, I don't give two shits about the US economy. It is just a metaphor, an allusion to something deeper, something we can really use.
If, instead of us going around and saying to people every once in a while "well if the economy just got better", we said instead "man the economy is really picking up!" do you believe me that it would actually progress the economical progress?
Taking this farther, could we not start saying things like, "Damn, renewable energy is really starting to kick in!" or "People are starting to realize this ___" or "People seem really nice all of the sudden." etc?
1. You have to believe what your saying is actually true, or can be true. - This is because our subconscious mind can pick up on distress in a voice, so if you're saying something like "Wow we almost have flying cars" its not going to get us anywhere.
2. You have to say it to people susceptible to the idea. Obviously if you talk to someone who is absolutely against global warming and doesn't believe it exists and say "We're really making head way on fighting global warming" the opposite effect may happen.
3. You have to be ready to give an example. People like to relate, people like stories. Make up a story or grab one from the newspaper. IT doesn;t matter - as long as you believe you are making a positive difference.
My reasoning may be a little different, and I'm attributing it to the social phenomenon of the financial collapse world-wide.
Here is my interpretation of the financial collapse and what it really means to us:
Some bankers and investment companies made some major flawed mistakes a while back. Who knows exactly who, or when, but it happened. A lot of money was lost, enough to send the people in the company into a panic, and even the government felt the hit of the economics employed. However - nobody but these big companies and the government, which relies mutually on them were truly affected. Money didn't just disappear - it just went into an unexpected place - another bank, another corporation, somewhere. Money doesn't just "disappear". However, when this much money in this concentrated of a form seems to be stripped from large companies, we end up in bail outs and all types of weird financial things that make headlines.
In the long run, very little people will actually be affected by this. What happens if your bank becomes bankrupt? well - not much, you take your money out and go to a better bank.
Anyways, I could go on and talk about how this doesn't really matter to the average consumer (us) but that is beside the point. Rather, the point is, somehow, the media makes us believe that something is wrong. There is no financial crisis. There is no shortage of jobs. There IS a larger unemployment rate. Why, though?
It is psychology - purely. When we are subjected day to day with this idea that "the economy is going down the tubes" what does that really mean? Think about it... At first thought we think - oh no, jobs will stop hiring, I won't be able to get a job. But why? Why wouldn't you? Because there is a shortage of money? No... There isn't. The money didn't go anywhere.
So, we slowly can reveal the real dilemma is in the susceptibility of us as news-watchers in believing crises exist, when they do not affect us at all. In fact - what do big banks say to do when the economy is bad? Start spending. Why? Because the only problem to begin with is people get scared and stop spending.
I'm not endorsing you to go spend money, in fact, I don't give two shits about the US economy. It is just a metaphor, an allusion to something deeper, something we can really use.
If, instead of us going around and saying to people every once in a while "well if the economy just got better", we said instead "man the economy is really picking up!" do you believe me that it would actually progress the economical progress?
Taking this farther, could we not start saying things like, "Damn, renewable energy is really starting to kick in!" or "People are starting to realize this ___" or "People seem really nice all of the sudden." etc?
1. You have to believe what your saying is actually true, or can be true. - This is because our subconscious mind can pick up on distress in a voice, so if you're saying something like "Wow we almost have flying cars" its not going to get us anywhere.
2. You have to say it to people susceptible to the idea. Obviously if you talk to someone who is absolutely against global warming and doesn't believe it exists and say "We're really making head way on fighting global warming" the opposite effect may happen.
3. You have to be ready to give an example. People like to relate, people like stories. Make up a story or grab one from the newspaper. IT doesn;t matter - as long as you believe you are making a positive difference.
