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Nov. 14th, 2008 07:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilman*sigh*
I just wrote a long rant about the difference between a quick intercession to support the financial infrastructure of an entire economy and handing money out to industries that failed to adapt to the new markets of the 21st century, despite being given a decade-long lead time filled with clear warnings. [edit: note I said the infrastructure, not the players who screwed with it]
And then I realized that would segue into a rant about the banking institutions who were given that support and still insist on screwing the pooch [and us] with it, which would in turn lead to a rant of OMG you PEOPLE, WTF, get your HEADS out of your HOLES!
And then I decided I was just too tired, and had too many other things to do. Like, y'know, adapting to the new markets of the 21st century.
If you're within reach of the Santa Barbara fires, stay safe and sound. I'm turning off the news and getting back to work.
And, for those of you who missed the bit of exciting-in-a-good way news: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/science/space/14planet.html Baby exoplanets! We are not unique. This gives me great pleasure (for those who want/need to believe in a Greater Plan, just call them God's backup plan for when we blow it entirely, and a new starting point is needed)
EtA: and, in the way things often happen,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
truepenny just externalized something I've been mulling for a while, about perfection, and how it's actually a bad path, rather than a good one. The money shot, for me: "But my point is, if you don't fail, or don't allow yourself to fail, you don't become a better person. You become a more rigid person. More brittle. More uptight. And because you don't allow yourself to fail, you have no empathy for other people when they fail. You don't have room for it, because you can't give yourself the leeway to imagine failing."
Yes. That.
I just wrote a long rant about the difference between a quick intercession to support the financial infrastructure of an entire economy and handing money out to industries that failed to adapt to the new markets of the 21st century, despite being given a decade-long lead time filled with clear warnings. [edit: note I said the infrastructure, not the players who screwed with it]
And then I realized that would segue into a rant about the banking institutions who were given that support and still insist on screwing the pooch [and us] with it, which would in turn lead to a rant of OMG you PEOPLE, WTF, get your HEADS out of your HOLES!
And then I decided I was just too tired, and had too many other things to do. Like, y'know, adapting to the new markets of the 21st century.
If you're within reach of the Santa Barbara fires, stay safe and sound. I'm turning off the news and getting back to work.
And, for those of you who missed the bit of exciting-in-a-good way news: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/science/space/14planet.html Baby exoplanets! We are not unique. This gives me great pleasure (for those who want/need to believe in a Greater Plan, just call them God's backup plan for when we blow it entirely, and a new starting point is needed)
EtA: and, in the way things often happen,
truepenny just externalized something I've been mulling for a while, about perfection, and how it's actually a bad path, rather than a good one. The money shot, for me: "But my point is, if you don't fail, or don't allow yourself to fail, you don't become a better person. You become a more rigid person. More brittle. More uptight. And because you don't allow yourself to fail, you have no empathy for other people when they fail. You don't have room for it, because you can't give yourself the leeway to imagine failing."Yes. That.
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Date: 2008-11-14 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-14 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-14 02:08 pm (UTC)Also, totally feeling you on the financial rant. I assume you saw that Bernanke was talking lowering the interest rate again. Looks like we're down to what? .5 or something? Seriously, what's the point?
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Date: 2008-11-14 10:57 pm (UTC)The Countess on great deeds: "Are you saying that no matter how screwed up I was, you'd still expect me to work wonders?" Appalling. She considered this. "Yes," she said serenely. "In fact, since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same."
And there are few of her quotes i find more gravatic.
Oh yes, and damn you for tempting me to talk politics. Especially since I'm way less tactful than you. But on all those points all i'll say is; I fear for the republic.