Psychics Are Like Undertakers

They Prosper When You Don’t!

As if things weren’t bad enough, now we hear more confirmation of the fact that as the economic Titanic is sinking ever lower in the water, the psychic band has struck up big time, profiting off of other people’s misfortune. And it isn’t just affirmation the newly desperate seek, not simply being told “Everything’ll Be Alright!”. Nope, now the bereft and benighted business bumblers are seeking advice on how to make better decisions. From psychics!

Oh yeah, that’s good. Next we’ll pull Nancy Reagan out of retirement so she can pick some celebrity astrologers for the Washington wankers. You’ll be able to blame the next trillion shot out of a clown cannon on the Age of Aquarius, which you would do anyway if you believed in all that starstruck malarky.

It won’t achieve much I know to point out once again there is no scientific evidence for believing there is any psychic power, especially none suggesting any of it resides in alleged psychics. If you want to make better business decisions, you should get a better calculator, or maybe employ a better psychologist or psychology. For one thing psychics do know, very well, and that is that if you want to make money these days, you’d better be good at and comfortable with navigating and exploiting people’s fear.

If you’re OK with that, you’ll do just fine in Great Depression 2.0.

But, what about the suckers, the marks, the wretched creatures actually turning over the nation’s economic future to a bunch of swindlers—I mean the psychics, not the bankers—are they so clueless and so disempowered that they need a psychic to make things feel better?

Well, duh, of course they do. Look at how greed-as-usual has worked out. Gordon Gecko’s mantra “greed is good” has not exactly been discredited. Plenty of people are still greedy and still doing all kinds of good (for themselves) by exploiting everybody else’s fear and lethargy. But for the average greedy-gut, whose widening girth has tended to increasingly confirm the view that gluttony and greed are mutually sustaining virtues, the bottom has dropped out of the American Dream (of vice).

So, yeah, your average exploiter of humanity, the average despoiler of the earth, the average massive carbon footprint, the average American (native or styled) dolt, sees no way now to obtain any sense of control in this chaos save to actually pay a person ($100 an hour or so) to give him psychic advice about how to get his exploitation mojo back.

There is some considerable justice in this world at times.