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America Only Learns the Hard Way [1]
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Date: 2025-01-22
By David Glenn Cox
Take heart and be of good cheer. This is America where nothing lasts for very long. We build pyramids in this country made from glass and aluminum, and they last about ten years instead of 3,000. And the more they love you today the more they’ll hate you tomorrow. Or forget you completely and move on to something new and improved. Following the latest styles and fashions to pose for the photographs, we will all laugh at in twenty years.
When I was a kid, I went with the neighbor kid to the slot car track. Everything a ten-year old boy would want; except I didn’t have a slot car myself. I was forced to watch all the action from the cheap seats. I would ask for a slot car for my birthday in November. But this was in the spring and by the time the leaves fell, the slot car track was long gone.
As a survivor of Disco, I can tell you this too shall pass. Millions of normal hard-working Americans dressing to imitate a movie a modern audience would find unwatchable. A fad following crowd trying desperately to be cool like they told you. You need shoes, and an outfit, and a cool haircut. You want to be cool, don’t you? Get your money out. Let’s see how cool you can be.
So, it is my Faux pas. What do I know about fashion, about as much as a cow knows about algebra. The dowager Queen Cruella was making a fashion statement with her inaugural awful outfits. First off, was the black “I come as death” ensemble with white surrender band around the hat. That hat also doubled as a kiss protection screen. To wear mourning clothes to a celebration to signify that she too, was a victim.
And then the black & white ball gown taken from the Buster Crabb collection of vintage Ming the merciless outfits. She looked like a 1930s advertisement for the Penn Central Railroad. “Miss Comfortable seat back of 1935.” We will be laughing at that one for years to come. But I get it, it’s rich people’s high fashion. It looks sort of anachronistic in a society of ripped blue jeans, yoga pants and bedroom slippers. Like wearing a suit of iron to the Bahamas.
It is obvious to me; someone has envy issues. Who is the epitome of White House glamour and style? (hint) she ripped out her rose garden. The dowager wants to be like Jackie Kennedy, a fashion scion. The dowager certainly has the money and access to high fashion, but that ship has sailed with the Hamill camel. You’re not going to impress America with your $20,000 dollar outfits when you are married to a chunk. What is it they say you can’t buy no matter how much money, and also where students go to?
That audience would be more impressed with a new way to shotgun a beer than with high fashion. What’s the best sealant to use on a mobile home roof? Do you have to answer the door if the sheriff knocks? What kind of truck do you drive? Literal pearls before, dare I say it. Trying to impress the hoosters with all the finest from the Marie Antoinette collection. “Why they look at me like that?”
But we’re off and there is no turning back now. In America, everything new becomes old and rather quickly. Vinyl albums, 8 tracks, cassettes, CD’s then nothing! Remember, “My Space?” So, when I ask, is Facebook dying? It is meant purely as a rhetorical question. Perfectly understandable under current American conditions. Remember when Papa John said, “Fuck you! You don’t deserve health insurance. Just deliver the pizzas ya scum.” And then there is the famous Mike Lindell saga. One in four automotive buyers today say, they WON’T buy a Tesla because of Elon Musk. Genius! Pure marketing genius!
If you went to your local insane asylum and borrowed the most congenial candidates, they could do a better job of running Facebook. Facebook is the Social Media Company who doesn’t talk to anybody. It’s too much trouble and besides you aren’t worth it. Eat the hamburger as it is or go away. One size fits all. The goal is to maximize the advertising revenue until the golden goose is stone cold dead. Hollywood will spend a hundred million dollars on CGI and carp about five million for a script. Because it is basically non-essential. Just slap some shit together about wizards, dinosaurs or superhero’s or take it straight from the comic book. FLASH! ZOOM! ZOWIE! Just in time for Christmas!
It's a Blockbuster! Five stars! Says our sister company! Look at all these great reviews written by people who write great movie reviews for a living. USA Today says, “Astounding!” That’s sort of cryptic and open-ended answer.
It’s all minutia, don’t fall into the trap and read all about the individual outrages. Or fall for the corporate happy talk so prevalent in the last few days. We must accept this punishment in its totality, or we shall all go mad. The Nazis had a million individual outrages, but it was all the same crime. This as well, is all one crime. Remember, when things seem there darkest. They’ll step on a Lego!
All around Facebook are alternative platforms which pay content creators to post their products gratis on their platforms. Facebook instead charges content creators’ money to post their content. And punishes violators. (Ask me how I know.) See the problem? Dog & Cat photos only! Nothing more than twenty words! A social media company actively telling its audience to read the advertisements buy their products fuck off and go away. As dead as the slot car track at the mall.
Success makes management fearful of change until it is assassinated from behind by the innovation it spurned. We’re gonna do it our way! And if they don’t like it! They can all fuck off!
New Republican Administrations always come in the door kicking over trash cans breathing fire and pissing vinegar. It has to do with a small penis and mother issues. But soon the ketchup bottles will fly. This is the honeymoon phase, and they are already fighting with each other. Soon, very soon the buyer’s remorse will begin to creep in. Why did I buy this lousy car? This car is a piece of junk! Why ain’t my eggs no cheaper?
“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”
― Groucho Marx
America only learns the hard way.
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