Do you feel hopeless ? Invest

 These are few psychological benefits of investing in stock exchange:

1. Compensation for your loses. Long time ago, my favorite football team had an important match. The team was confident. I had a hunch that they will lose, I wanted to bet against them. But a real fan doesn't do that. I didn't bet, they lost, I lost. If I would have bet against them , the money won would have compensated for the loss of match, and I the win of the match would have compensated for the loss of money. I wasn't unethical to bet against my team because I could not influence the outcome. So if you are a pacifist worried that the world is going down the drain , buy defense stock, if you are ecologist buy big oil stock.

The stock are used to extract capital from mature companies not to grow them.

Start up sell shared to gain capital to develop.

Mature companies don't issue new shares because they dilute the share value, investors assets and managers bonuses. Mature companies stock are a kind of rent.

2. Investment force you to find something positive in your life.

If you open the news you see doom and gloom. Everything is going down, stock exchange has reached new lows. If you look carefully there are some positive points. The Hormuz strait is closed? Oil climbs to the sky ? The oil companies shares touch the sky. Maybe you buy yourself a coffee from their dividends.

3. Investment force you to understand the world. You have see cause and effect to buy the right shares, ahead of others.

What you should not do:

5. Don't buy the hype, you will be disappointed and the return of investment will be low. More demand for a share will increase its price and price per earnings. You should browse the company data and you would hire a new person. Buy from a domain that you know.

6. Don't play at stock exchange. Take it seriously even if it is 20$. The process itself is important.

7. Don't sell and buy often, this will increase the cost and it will stress you. 

MAGA should look itself in the mirror

 It seems that the possibilities that their sons will die in sands of middle east, expensive groceries and soy beans crops that don't sell have awake MAGA people from their slumber.

The signs of Trump callousnies were there.

A manager said that always dined with a future client in a public restaurant, yo notice the behavior of his future business partner versus waiters: if future business partner was rude, he would cut the ties with him. 

Someone who doesn't respect subordinates doesn't respects you, he is fearing only of your power and with first occasion he betrays you.

MAGA when Trump abused emigrants and protestors using ICE , didn't you think that it will do the same with you ?

He didn't abused them because they were brown and emigrants, he has very good relationships with brown rich people from Middle East.

He abuse them because they were perceived as weak.

EU with their diplomacy is perceived as weak.

When he said that he can grab women by the p**sy because he is famous you were not appalled in you Christian morality?

 You never though that you daughter will be the victim of guy like him?

Stalin, Mao and other dictators that starved people were never elected. They climb to power because of a civil war.

You elected twice a dictator that will starve soon millions of people. Through Hormuz strait 25% of agriculture fertilizer pass, to Africa and Asia. 

Mussolini and Hitler were voted once and they kept the grip on power, because they knew that they will never be elected again.

If Trump resignes tomorrow and MAGA doesn't reflect on the mistake they made voting Trump, nothing will change in US. The crowd will find another demented unhinged person to vote him to presidency.

Unfortunately the left is not welcoming to repented Trump supporters, so they transition to a more normal mindset easily.

Art versus religion

 Art is expansive and triggered by emotions and desire.

Religion is triggered by fear of death, punishment , social pressure. It is restrictive, it tries to protect us with rituals.

It constraints is for our own safety.

Art develops us, breaks boundaries and invades territories.

In the religious art you have this tension.

Science it removes the fears and weakens the religion but it damps down Emotion and art.

The social climber in world literature

 I am reading the novel 'Ion' by Liviu Rebreanu.

Ion is a poor ambitious Romanian peasant who lived in the Austro Hungarian occupied Transylvania in mid 19 century.

He was the son of a peasant women who had a lot of land but she married for love with a drunken lazy man who wasted her wealth.

Ion sees an opportunity to regain his wealth by marrying the not so beautiful daughter of a rich peasant in the village, Ana. Her father does not want him, so he makes her pregnant.

Ion actions mirror the actions of Julien Sorel in 1830 Stendhal novel 'Red and black' but is more calculated and cruel. 

In 'Great Gatsby' F. S. Fitzgerald's hero uses money to win over his love Daisy.

In old world, old, tall hierarchies make people trade they feelings for wealth and position, and more the person is to the bottom, more cruel and cunning he has to be climb socially and survive.

Life of Ion is surrounded by death and illnesses. Many women have 9 children and only 3 survive. Ion is a secondary citizen of Austro Hungarian state, his lack of knowledge of Hungarian, condemns him to be enclosed in his village from mountains.

Jay Gatsby on the other hand doesn't have this hierarchical structure above to fight against it, he tries to enter in an expensive club, for this he must equalize generational wealth. And doing so he goes to the bottom of social hierarchy to make a fast buck.

European dream is as ascension in closed tight hierarchy, American dream is ' be what you want to be '

Russian roulette and Russian soul

 Every person is primed by social factors to react in a certain way.

Think how a Finn and Italian will react.

How the Russians are primed to react ?

From what I saw high risk situations prime Russians to react.

YouTube is full of crazy stunts done by Russians.

Bravery of Russian soldiers is legendary.

Russian officers can use them in suicide missions because they have fatalistic attitude of "fuck death"

By the way: I saw on TV how an police officer tried to drag a woman who protested against Putin, a man said: "leave her alone, I know you have a quota for the arrests, take me in, instead of her"  and he let himself arrested instead of the woman in the applause of other citizens.

So no wonder that the game of filing one chamber of a revolver spun it and close it, putting the revolver to the head was called Russian roulette.

The petrodollar is dead, long live the petrodollar

 Everyone was worried about the fall of dollar as global currency.

Now with increased oil prices due to attack on Iran and net exports of US oil, the demand for dollars will increase.

The fact that China has to pay more for energy is another effect of attack in Iran.

Theater versus politics

 Hamlet uses the lie if theatre play to tell truth about power.

The power uses the truth to create lies. Spin off stories, paintings and statues who glorify battles almost lost.