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>I guess the system got what it wanted: the Today show got its feel good story for overfed housewives and Today show advertisers got the eyeballs they wanted.
by JonnieCache 12y ago
>I guess the system got what it wanted: the Today show got its feel good story for overfed housewives and Today show advertisers got the eyeballs they wanted.
This is the beginning and the end of the story. All you need to add for a complete understanding is that change was avoided on all sides. The status quo is, as always, self-preserving. Crucially this includes unchanging moral certainty for the housewives, as well as unchanging poverty for Leo and unchanging profit for the media/various related industries. The circle of life continues.
- sliverstorm 12y agoThe status quo is, as always, self-preserving Of course it is! Much like how the only species that last are the ones that reproduce, any lasting system has trended towards the solution that is stable. The systems that didn't trend towards stable probably fell apart. It wouldn't be the status quo if it wasn't self-preserving.
- dllthomas 12y agoThe interesting thing here is that we've demonstrated that the reason the status quo is self-preserving in this case is not simply a lack of access to marketable skills on the part of the poor.
- xacaxulu 12y agoI feel like you would enjoy thelastpsychiatrist.com
- JonnieCache 12y agoYou don't think I make this stuff my myself do you? ;) I do wonder sometimes if his stuff is deep insight or raving mania. His basic point about "the system" just being a sum of the force vectors representing everyones desire for a stable self is pretty correct I think. A lot of stuff certainly makes sense through that lens, but I suppose that isn't the best heuristic for truth.