frustration Friday

There's so much talk about the destruction to lives caused by the Great Recession/Reset.  But I think the news articles and certainly the pundits rarely dig deep enough to show how it hurts.

It's not just about people out of work.  It's about people who have lost identities, livelihood, and indeed their futures.

Those people who have lost so much have friends and families.  They too suffer as those they love enter a spiral of depression, joblessness, and hopelessness.

Those who are dependent on the unemployed have their futures destroyed, their families broken, their dreams shattered.

Those who help the unemployed spend time, money, and sanity to help them.  They too get drained and tired.

It's not a bunch of disconnected people without jobs.  It's a spiderwebbing disaster tearing apart lives in many ways.

So next time you hear anyone talking about the impact of unemployment?  Chances are they're not digging deep enough.  Feel free to chew them out.

And tell me about it.  I'll find it cathartic!

– Steven Savage

I was delighted a week ago to see this article on the absolutely insane plan for an early Dazzler film.  I recommend you go read this and marinate in the crazy.

Yes, Dazzler, Marvel's disco superheroine mutant, in a movie that would have Cher, superpowered KISS and Village People, and . . . well OK you sort of had me at superpowered Village People.  It's totally, over the top nuts, and the kind of thing that clearly would make you say "only in the 80's."

You know what? I kind of wish this was made.  Because in our media?  I'm starting to miss crazy.

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You may have noticed recently I got curious about the future of China and the Geekonomy. Well, more appropriately I became more curious about China – if you follow the global economy, China is something you follow.

So here we are with so many world changes that affect all of us.  Greece melting down (and Portugal to follow apparently).  China's big search company allying with Microsoft.  Japan's potential entry into the rare earth market.  Massive media scandals in the UK.

So much news.  So many geeky things to keep track of.  So many usual economic things to keep track of.

You know I'd LIKE to be able to pay more attention to it.

See the problem is watching economic stupidity here in the US. 

The whole debt ceiling mess was, to say the least, a distraction, and a stupid one.  There's never been any real debate about the debt ceiling in its history, the political posturing was dumb, and the whole mess was potentially destructive.

None of it had to happen of course.  But it did.

So what did we miss during this time?  What could we have focused on if Washington had been behaving like adults?  What could I have been focusing on?  What could our shiny-thing-chasing media have been focusing on?

I'm not entirely sure because, of course, I was trying to find out if my government was going to melt down the economy and take the world with it.

Really people, we have other things to do.  All other political immaturity aside, we got other stuff happening.  We don't need you to make more.

– Steven Savage