turning chi-neesa

I AM TURNING CHI-NEESA, I REALLY THINK SO

In China, at least prior to the last few generations, it was the norm to not display your wealth.  They were so used to government officials and bandits constantly looting them that there was absolutely no percentages in turning on a neon sign that flashed “come get your extra wealth here”.  In America, by contrast, the rich, not so rich and the wanna-be rich all have their peacock plumage in full blown showmanship mode.  There was a reason for this, as since the country was so prosperous resource wise, you had to keep fighting to prove yourself wealthier than all the other wealth holders ( the poor were either isolated geographically or fed the public school indoctrination BS that we were all Horatio Algiers stories waiting to happen after a short period of intense intelligent effort.  Those that didn’t advance were scum, so everyone tried to prove they were advancing even if they weren’t.  Just witness the sparkling  mobile home masquerading as house ownership before it quickly falls apart, the high interest payments and overpriced land with insane government fees on the septic permit bringing it close to the price of an actual site built home but at half the monthly price ).

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Americans are dumb enough to think that displaying your wealth is actually a good idea.  Of course, they also actually think that their vote counts, that they will get a Social Security check and that whatever unsound economic decisions they make will be resolved before they lose their jobs.  I mean, duh!  All evidence points to the contrary.  Since the 1970’s one area after another has fallen into permanent widespread unemployment coupled with rising taxes and nobody saves or spends or invests as it that was the case.  Social Security may not be as in bad of shape as Medicare, which has been broke for awhile, but there is no way that three workers can support each retiree as unemployment rises ( while we are on the subject of dumbass-ness, who would believe the official unemployment numbers which contradict all their own senses? ) so you know it is just a matter of time before solvency issues are obvious.  And, really, voting?  You honestly believe Americans are so color blind they would vote a half-breed Kenyan Muslim immigrant in?  I hate all colors equally, but you can’t tell me most folks refuse to vote against the minority.

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And yet, for being such morons, you should actually be more than thankful.  If more Americans were smarter ( lacking intelligence is a misstatement-I really mean “refuse to stop deluding themselves”, but in general the statement will stand as is ) we would have already crashed and burned this sucker down.  There is a very good reason the sheep are kept ignorant to avoid panic.  People SHOULD be panicking, but if everyone did they would bring the collapse from “real soon” to “immediate”.  The ignorant masses ensure your ability to stockpile food and ammunition at affordable ( if not exactly reasonable ) prices.  But for the purposes of our discussion here, they provide a much more valuable service.  They will ignore your wealth if you hide it.  In China, since everyone hid their wealth, the search for it could get a mite brutal.  Those seemingly living in squalor were tortured for information as to the location of their hidden wealth.  If they didn’t really have any, well, how could they prove it?  Everyone knew that everyone else hid their wealth.  You just got tortured anyway.  Appearance didn’t prove you were poor, so everyone was suspect. 

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But Americans, all of them, buy into the Potemkin Village Glittery Unicorn Farts lifestyle.  Everyone pretends to be richer than they are ( by going into debt to appear rich, they actually get far less than if they had saved ).  So if you appear poor, people will believe you are actually less wealthy than you appear.  Because that is how they live, always keeping up appearances.  Not to be better than the Jones’ but to prove they aren’t worse than them.  Everyone knows you are not as wealthy as you appear ( “nice house” ”Yeh, nice house payment” ) but they all buy into the illusion for their own sake.  Just as Chinese refused to believe their neighbor didn’t hide wealth, we refuse to believe our neighbor isn’t in debt to appear wealthy.  But you can gain the advantage of appearing poor, and nobody will think to torture you to find out where you hid your wealth.  You get the best of both worlds.  By playing Chinese, you save money from ostentation presentations, and protect yourself from envy attack.

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Of course, you will get blowback from the ‘ol ball and chain.  The wife will be far from pleased that you want to lower her social status.  Women, in general ( so don’t explode a blood vessel if you are different ), are like hens fighting for position in the pecking order.  Now, this does not discount the nesting urge and their sense of order being far different than males and other reasoning, but don’t ignore the pecking order.  If you lower the perceived social standing of your mate, her resistance can have a lot of different motivations and this could be one of them.  To sway her, it will be your job to sniff out her reasoning and work around that.  Good luck with that. 

She probably won’t be convinced with apocalyptic visions of torture and unruliness.  Perhaps you just need to service her more often to change her mind-I don’t have ALL the answers, dude.

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