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while kept in the dark about the real goings on and manipulations in the economy. But if you don't run...what happens? Or is it that we're so conditioned we do run, can't see alternative ways of existing and surviving, and we try to invest in the markets to get somewhere?
Compelling video. (I did fear they would kill the "winner.")
What do the tossed beads mean and are they beads? A way of betting a runner would get knocked out?
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It's a metaphor for our economic system--run as fast as you can
while kept in the dark about the real goings on and manipulations in the economy. But if you don't run...what happens? Or is it that we're so conditioned we do run, can't see alternative ways of existing and surviving, and we try to invest in the markets to get somewhere?
Compelling video. (I did fear they would kill the "winner.")
What do the tossed beads mean and are they beads? A way of betting a runner would get knocked out?
I'm ashamed to admit I was being more simplistic than that.
I was thinking of the Congressman named Anthony and his recent self-inflicted troubles. Which is not to invalidate your interpretation at all.
Oops! I must have two comment boxes open, bcz this was meant for
lambert's QH on how the elites think of the rest of us. Ooops.
(And thank you, Randall, for being so kind....)