Friday, January 24, 2014
Conjunction
An accidental conjunction of headlines on the online Spokane paper.......
A nice comparison between False Value and Real Value, related to electric conductors and charging.
The Tesla article is pure fakery. It heralds a Tesla-only charging station in Ellensburg, which is supposed to "open Spokane to Teslas." Nonsense. Ellensburg is 150 miles from Spokane, so you might be able to drive your Tesla one way, but you couldn't get back without risking brickification. Pure publicity, fitting for a "car" that's pure conspicuous consumption. A $100K item that broadcasts your fake wealth and your Gaian manifest election to all parvenus. Exact equivalent of a $1000 cigar. It says "I can waste huge amounts of money on a thing that serves no practical purpose."
The copper-theft article shows the part that Real Value plays in our fake economy. Americans who formerly worked in industries that used copper, and were formerly paid real money for their real work, are now reduced to stealing copper from abandoned houses and industries, so China can use it for real purposes.
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A nice comparison between False Value and Real Value, related to electric conductors and charging.
The Tesla article is pure fakery. It heralds a Tesla-only charging station in Ellensburg, which is supposed to "open Spokane to Teslas." Nonsense. Ellensburg is 150 miles from Spokane, so you might be able to drive your Tesla one way, but you couldn't get back without risking brickification. Pure publicity, fitting for a "car" that's pure conspicuous consumption. A $100K item that broadcasts your fake wealth and your Gaian manifest election to all parvenus. Exact equivalent of a $1000 cigar. It says "I can waste huge amounts of money on a thing that serves no practical purpose."
The copper-theft article shows the part that Real Value plays in our fake economy. Americans who formerly worked in industries that used copper, and were formerly paid real money for their real work, are now reduced to stealing copper from abandoned houses and industries, so China can use it for real purposes.
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