Diegetics

It just seems that they are living like what is called here, "old money". Families that have had wealth for generations tend to have a similar attitude and it centers around the notion that in order to have wealth, you strive in all ways not to spend it.......

except for the obligatory pearls

and miss porters school

and lester lanin's band

and of course a tennis court

self deleted

may or may not

suddenly appear

in a more appropriate

place and time

Skyhook, this thread is about creating wealth, hedge funds don't create wealth, they protect it.

mi scuso...
shall i delete myself?

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I saw Silicon Valley status symbols and immediately thought "Hoo boy! Breast implants!"

I am such a pig.....

Sounds like more of an Elliott Wave indicator of social mood than a statement on the residents of Silicon Valley to me.

Cheap becomes the new chic!

Sarah Jessica Parker's line of cheap clothes anyone?


"those who are worshipped during the bull market become persecuted during the bear market."

Ostentatious display of wealth is going to become rare and very stupid.

Paraphrasing skyhook: Joe Perrier without a Perrier is a mean somebitch!"

let it not be said

he was oblivious

to clues

however

subtle

I won't let it, but I was just sayin.

If you want to get laid, go to college.

If you want an education, go to a library.

~ Frank Zappa

Azari,

My point was that social mood determines what is considered a status symbol. What is considered status changes with the social mood.

The status conscious buyer is not buying for himself, but for his potential audience. Who you perceive your audience to be determines what objects are considered status. Rolex watch or expensive hunting rifle?

"The desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others......"

The other aspect would be potential danger of flaunting wealth in front of deperate people during hard times....

Perhaps we could learn from a look at the native american value sytem before the illegal aliens arrived...


big man was not the man with the most possessions...

but man who had given away the most possessions...

a built in intuitive social antidote to anal retentives

SIMPLE MINDED



you sir are tuned in to to what that skinny old srb Tesla

termed the natural resonance of the ambient medium...

ie mother earths vibratory frequency

interesting that the oldest surviving indoeurpean genesis saga

says creation begins with energy manifesting as vibrations

a wave that ripples all into being



and what are waves but cyclic phenomena eh?

that is imho both the long AND the short of it

short to check on the worlds largest creditors views

at radio china interantional Beijing and then the

long to talk to submerged submariners (back to rolex)

the cycle is complete