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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Women prefer rock climbing to marriage?

The sociology of a credit card commercial from Citi.



Marriage does not work for women, now, because they assume the stability and power of the West is eternal. Never threatened, always "boring." This is a poor bet, and likely to work out disastrously in fairly short order. Food, oil, and other resources are tight globally, and an external shock (and there is ALWAYS an external shock) in the global system will push everything over. Not aliens invading, or zombie apocalypse, or Mayan prophecies, but a corn harvest failure in Brazil, or a Wheat harvest failure in Russia, the Ukraine, and Australia. The closing of the Persian Gulf to oil shipping for six months or longer. The Euro collapsing. Perhaps all of these, are enough to send the economy into a nose-dive and mobs of hungry people from the urban centers into looting marches on the suburbs. With a paralyzed and inept bureaucracy unable and unwilling to use force to stop it. In other words, the LA Riots writ nationally.

2 comments:

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Oh...you said rock. Nevermind.

MarkD said...

I'm not too worried about that march to the suburbs. Walking for miles is tiring. I don't think the mob will venture past WalMart.

However, the theme music is great. Too bad that I will never, ever, under any circumstance, do business with Citi.