
Originally Posted by
xanfiles1
2012 will be remembered the year when 'doom and gloom' peaked.
Fresh Internet Luddites (late to the internet) were started on this scare-cycle around 2007. The financial crisis dove-tailed into this narrative and made heroes out of clueless idiots -- Schiff, Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, zerohedge, tea party et al. Most comment sections were filled with the same hyper-inflation, dollar-collapse, one-term president, gold $5000, high unemployment, anti-MSM. Since this was novel to many and simplistic, it went viral.
But by 2012, the general public slowly started to realize that all these gloom and doomers are utterly clueless about everything and can't predict which direction the sun rises the next day.
Unfortunately, the cult followers of doom lost their precious time and instead of honing their skills for the coming US industrial, technology and health-care boom (3-d printing, big data, automation, robotics, lab-on-chips, biotech engineering, health services, resource glut, hydroponic and aquaponic vegetation, energy recycling) were busy reading conspiracy theories, idiot sites and following their cult leaders.
As the world marches towards 1000 Trillion Dollar economy, with US around $250 Trillion, (in real terms) in about 50 years, the next generation will be laughing about the luddites who were scared by the puppet masters about a piddly $16 Trillion debt. (an abstract concept that has nothing to do with the productive capacity of the resources, land, machines and the smart people of a country)
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