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From the penthouse at the Plaza to the Conde Nast trash can in Times Square...Gourmet it was quite a ride! Adieu!
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Over the past couple of decades the business and marketing world has whipped us all into a frenzy of big weddings, planned obsolescence, short skirts, long skirts, blah, blah, blah.
And all of that has certainly built up our cities with lots of fab corporate headquarters, but after a few decades of all of this, people now are tied to their desks trying to make sense of the pile of bills, worried about their FICO score (can that still be a vlaid indicator?), deep in debt, working way more than they wanted to, the wives are working, ALL are worried about getting one of these "memo's", and are generally on a treadmill that ultimately winds up feeding the bottom lines of various big businesses and it is quite miserable.
This recession is way more than a few bad seasons of spending. Society now knows all of the tricks of Wall Street, big banks, retailers and the like. Kind of like the cloak is off.
Sadly, this new way of thinking might be here to stay and the once luxurious array of products and choices in everything might become the lore of the late 20th century and give way to an austere society born out of greed and upsetting the balance of money on both sides of the equation (consumers/business).
It's just gotten too complicated with 401K's, cell ohone plans up the ass, APR's, bailouts, rising costs, $5/gallon gas, real estate bubble, recession and on and on.
One can almost feel the collective groan and desire for a more peaceful less "shiny" existence. This conversion will take time, but it is definitely headed that way, partly out of necessity.
The above-mentioned Conde Nast memo is just one example. With so many things like the State of California, the MTA, the banks (no sympathy there), investment houses (there either), the Federal Government, individuals, families, GM, Chrylser, and on and on it just seems that the spiral has begun and we all know how hard it is to stop.
Again, we as humans and Americans are face with a fork in the road, and it is up to us what the outcome of our enormous troubles will be. Most do not know how precarious our way of life is at this moment. If they did, more would be angry at the very few individuals who have amassed untold riches while the general population struggles with unemployment, foreclosure, bankruptcy and all of the ills that accompany these situations with regards to the American family unit.
These bankers with their financial wizardry have blown up the road we were proverbially traveling on and caused this major blip on the success and future of our mighty Nation. Corporate greed has been the culprit that has ultimately brought down a lot of these big businesses as they have bled us dry of every dollar, and we no longer have the funds or inclination to keep this corporate fleecing of our resources going.
Maybe this will create a different society where everyone is comfortable and private jets are used to help people around the world rather than to ferry bloated, greedy, clueless CEO's from one exotic locale to another. Just cause thay can.
Good luck America!! We will nedd it!!
VIVA AMERICA!!!
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Dang. First Reading Rainbow, now this...
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I thought that was going to be one of the safe bets for remaining honestly.
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I'm gonna be pissed if they don't give anything.
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Second, I suppose it would be impractical to roll a couple of titles into Postmodern Bride, which would be obscure, self-referential and ignored by anyone outside of academia.
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That's good.
There could also be an article on the replication of false consciousness in ice sculptures.
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Stuffed with pieces like an oral history of all my kitchen appliances, or an essay on the emotional lives of vowels and consonants. Do they actually get along? Do they sometimes get jealous of each other and/or engage in sordid affairs?
Just imagine--a whole book filled this kind of stuff, livened up with a few completely BLANK pages in every issue. A magazine so utterly purposeless and pretentiously dumb as to transcend into meaningfulness. And then become a huge hit.
If I'd actually got this going instead of wasting time commenting on Gawker, I'd be rich by now. And insane. Either/or.
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I'm kind of a geek, but depending on how those pieces were written I might buy a magazine like that. There may be others.
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