The Big Short (inside the doomsday machine)

    The Big'Short' 

    i.e. betting; investing on:






     (global economic meltdown)


    (verb) "shorting"



    2015 film
    8.2/10·IMDb
    87%·Rotten Tomatoes
    When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media and government refused to, the global collapse of the economy, they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything.
    Release date: January 22, 2016 (United Kingdom)



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Hindsight is 20/20. But in the case of The Big Short, starring Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, and Steve Carell, it’s their foresight that gets them in deep
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/watch-brad-pitt-ryan-gosling-1262322844418102.html


The Big Short: 

 Betting on the Housing Market going burst!

 (a seeming far shot as this had never happened before, 
necessitating the whole world being clueless 
about the great bubble about to burst!!!)


Betting on the Economy going Burst.
Against all the odds, apparently.
But it was an informed 'gamble'.
That in reality was a sure bet,
given the actual data. 

The Only Constant Thing in Life is Change


OUTLINE

The West; Europe Old World/USA New World


Overview 
The History of The West sketched on the back of a beermat 

  • Classical Greece
  • Rome
  • Roman Catholic Europe ('Dark Ages')
  • Reformation/Renaissance
  • The Age of Science
  • Industrial Revolution
Nineteenth Century




  1. The Industrial Revolution 
  2. Mass Production
  3. Mass Society




Twentieth Century
  1. World War 1
  2. The Great Depression
  3. World War 2
  4. The Cold War
  5. Fall of The Berlin Wall

Mass Media 

  • Newsprint,
  • Cinema,  
  • Radio, 
  • TV, 
  • The Web
  • The Social Web)


The Present?




Glib 
Thesis sketched on the back of a beermat

Discuss. "the West is in decline. because the rest of the world is catching up."

A century or so of Science and Technology being spread from the Western World to throughout the rest of the world: feudal or tribal societies reel from culture shock; lacking The West's particular five hundred years cultural evolution, i.e. values shift through The Age of Religion to 'Everything is politics' ideological alternatives (e.g. Cold War)  therefore instead some non-Western cultures retreat to traditional 'certainties'

Rise of Jihad, for example.

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Mind and Matter

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Spirit and Matter


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Consciousness as the ancient name given to the underlying energy field out of which everything appears
"The explanation is the cure".
Phineas Quimby* 

 and 'The Secret'


Quimby appears to represent an exemplary historical case-study of a healer who intuitively understood the above connection and could tap into it in order to do great works, i.e. cure even 'incurable' diseases by changing (curing) the foundational 'reality' beliefs that were the true causes of his subjects' afflictions. 
see footnote



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Phenomenology :

A Phenomenon






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Being-Consciousness-Bliss

The Great Theme

The Cosmic Beach*





* Links
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Further Links:

in the beginning
was the Word
let there be light
and Being became form








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Footnote.


Quimby and 'The Secret'. 


 Some of the more highly educated amongst the thousands whom Phineas cured and influenced started 'a movement of the written word' which became generically labeled as the New Thought movement. They elaborated upon the pragmatic work of Quimby to formulate the Law of Attraction. Extending his example to include the belief that you attract your own circumstances. Contemporaneously with today's tastes and fashions  the ideas of New Thought were re-merchandised in the form of the internet sensation The Secret. 











Labels:

Sketches and Starters






The Forest















Orwell

". . . and a talent for facing uncomfortable truths."






Creativity 





Hermeneutics or Interpretations




It's been said that,

'meaning' doesn't exist in the world.

It is man
who brings meaning
to the world.

Is this a significant statement?

Maybe it depends on how it's interpreted?
It depends on what it 'means'.






.homo loquacious



Cosmic Beach, and others




The Cosmic Beach





The Agent





skin-colored rubber clown suit










Mein Kapt








Elegance, once more.

towards an ideal realized





Boz

he was so heart-bleeding
and wasn't he so.
heart on his sleeve.
oh, he moaned about the state of the world.

although at the end of the day

he was so little selfish,
so caring about us,

though the truth was
it was just his own little world
masked in 'politics'.

he wanted control.


Spirituality Vs Religion googled

a wider, deeper, higher perspective 

Spirituality/Religion


A point well worth pursuing.  ..

What are the contrasts generally made between these two poles, of 'religion' on the one hand and that thing called 'spirituality' on the other?

What are the more elegant soundbites which introduce this view, or views?

Most of which soundbites, or quotes, are bound to be biased in favoring 'spirituality' rather than 'religion'!

Simply because the latter doesn't define itself as distinct from, and of a lesser order than 'spirituality'. Indeed it is implicitly taken for granted in all religions, that it represents the spiritual order.

Whereas, by contrast, those who define themselves as spiritual rather than religious are naturally the ones who make these comparisons. And to the detriment of  the other.

We have killer Buddhist monks in some country right now, who have taken up a political stand against Islam. That's 'religion' rather than 'spirituality'. It's one group against another. The actual issues involved likely involving social issues and citizens' rights rather than purely religious ones. Or to speculate further only knowing the headline about this particular issue: even Buddhism over the centuries can take on a fossilised 'religious' character, despite the inward spiritual orientation or calling at it's original inception.

Other's quotes, from people who have thought about this issue and took the trouble to coin their understanding in the nutshell of a soundbite, should provide a fertile starting point.

May even be able to weave and collate them into a coherent body of writing; filling in the gaps to link one with another; or else, additionally, to hammer home the most salient points and overall essential message?



































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