Picking through the rubble
I would almost feel bad about airing any kind of post-election sentiment given that the fools and reactionaries (were any of them among the handful of SB readers, that is) would presumably chortle with delight… but, let’s face it, they’re going to chortle with dismally-misguided delight anyway. Despair, fear, anger, resignation, it doesn’t matter; any reaction at all, or even the absence of any proclamation, would serve their purposes adequately. These are the people who are entrenched in an endless war on straw men, after all. They adapt information to their conceptual framework rather than adapting their conceptual framework to information.
So, fuck ‘em and I’ll write what I want.
Really, I’m just kind of… lacking in much of a reaction, anyway, at least in terms of feelings. Economics offers all kinds of valuable concepts that can be used outside of the dismal science, not least among them the idea that expected news is typically “priced in” by the market, and thus the official arrival of such news does not lead to any noticeable subsequent response.
So, I suspect, with the 2010 election. We were told what to expect for months, and it pretty much happened as predicted; am I now to wail and gnash my teeth? Throw a hissyfit, stamp my feet (or otherwise behave like a TPer)? Not feeling it, sorry.
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