cultural hegemony = skewed data

in an uncharacteristic and pretty much impulsive act ( which should have the marketers among you salivating since impulse is your god ) i bought a local newspaper today to go along with the n y times that comes to my door ( no i don't trust them either...but it is the paper of record...read it...check out the evening news...epiphany ) after being suitably unimpressed i began to look for crossword puzzles...one happened to be in the "jobs" section...some section...one piece of standard newsprint folded into the standard four pages you get out of one...the front page was consumed by advertizements and an article about the perfect resume and the back page was all adverts...page two was half consumed by an advice column on workplace interactions and the continuation of the resume article and a third of page three was the crossword...that left room for ads or 45 jobs...the "official" unemployed class in lake county indiana is 19,628...you can add ninety percent to that because politicians cook the numbers out of political expedient...not many jobs for all those poor sods...but the dow is soaring ( mostly because a bunch of bankers have sworn on a stack of bibles that they'll save the euro form the intrinsic nationalist loathings that have been on the loose in europe forever and a day...good luck you technocratic morons..irreducible ethnic nationalism will stick a shiv up your ass and smile while doing it )...but that bunch of penguins is no good as an indicator of the real world...they're just betting...and mostly against the rest of us...it's an election year and the whores are going to tell you it's better than it really is and try to sell you on how they can make it better while saying as little of anything substantive about things as they can...they are part of the hegemonic culture with a vested interest in keeping us uniformed about real conditions because if we start to change things they stand to lose wealth and power ( which would be a good thing as far as i can see...but i read a lot and that isn't healthy in the orthodox view of the elite )..so? start thinking critically people and work on the skills and shadow institutions you 'll need to save yourselves when the whole thing implodes ( when? who knows but resource substitution is idiocy and economists are the new alchemists trying to make gold out of base metals all the time not realizing that the ensuing glut would make it more worthless than it is as anything but a fair conductor of electricity...shiny lead...the rest is an abstraction...have a hard look at a natural economy and tell me it will withstand endless extraction...someone should teach these fools some biology)...in the end they are doomed to morph into fascists as they are faced by the threat of substantive change from below...then chicago becomes aleppo...and whoever is presidents turns int bashir al assad