YinglingHeavy

No longer take anything too seriously anymore?

That was a very 90s 'thing'. Today people, especially young people, are exceedingly lacking in levity. Everything is serious.

Toyota would have gone bankrupt in post-War Japan if it wasn't from massive US demand in the Korean War.

The Vespa popularized by Hollywood's Roman Holiday propped up a post-War Italy.

Ping-Pong Diplomacy of the 70s gifted China its electronics manufacturing (think: PONG) turning it from a 3rd world backwater to what it is today. The exchange was in removing the 'Gang of Four' and the drugs associated with it.

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The US was put into a privileged position as reserve currency of the WORLD in Bretton Woods. This is with the understanding/responsibility that the US would act as World Police and prop up foreign economies.

That is the system that is ending.

You start with Marcus Aurelius and work your way up to Nietzsche.

Do you think the masses have a taste for anything but 'junk food' writing at this point?

That offers no solution to the masses, only the individual. The former its a much more difficult and demanding discussion.

Everything read on this website is entirely forgotten in two weeks time.

As a Nietzschean it is amusing, this argument that Christianity is losing favor because it is...not moral enough!

Truly our institutions are post-Christianity. The herd morality has out survived Christianity itself. Nietzsche's nightmare

Sounds exactly like the population worth monitoring the most

"Read self-help books until they all start sounding the same, then move on with your life"

The taste of the masses will always be vulgar, by very definition of the word. Vulgar as in commonplace.

They will lose to Tesla cabs, due to price and not having full control of their supply chain.

I call bullshit on you comparing what was obviously a 2000s+ phenomenon with that of closer to the 1800s.

Less: "its a bubble"

More: "labor market and consumer spending is less meaningful than ever before"

The masses are unable to truly internalize the latter.

You never forget your first.