Prospects of time

this is a comparison of time and intellect-It's the economy stupid

 

Prospects of time

 

 

What killed the dinosaurs? Their sudden disappearance 65 million years ago, along with at least 50 percent of all species then living on Earth, is known as the K-T event (Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction event). Many geologists and paleontologists now think that a large asteroid or comet impacting the Earth must have caused a global catastrophe that led to this extensive loss of life.

What killed the economy, hypothetically? The buying and reselling of loans whose values are liquid or volatile and over inflated. The market mislead by some deceitful marketers who embellished on consumers by delivering a twenty-one century pyramid scheme that create an optical illusion.  The overwhelming effect caused the credit market to dry up and banks to halt lending to other banks. The end-result reflects the consumer in a way that cripples them leaving many holding nothing and effectively causes chaos in a manner that leaves billions of people scratching their heads.

Unfortunately, the dinosaurs and their extinction was the inability to adapt to the changing environment caused by that alien rock. If they weren’t so busy trying to kill each other it might have been possible for their brains to heed the warning since rocks have been falling for millions of years prior. Therefore, their ability to reason hindered survival.

We on the other hand know why the economy failed, even down to the most intricate parts but yet we fail to stop its present course. No alien rock came from space, kicking up so much dirt, that block the sun causing extinction. No, not at all, instead deceit kicked up mounds of dirt that blinded us from the truth. The dinosaurs can’t even compete with our intellect but we still insist to follow them; the people that work so hard for their money will be crushed. That makes no since…to play politics with our money when we know that if this rock hits either the ocean or the earth we will be doomed. The dinosaurs could do nothing, so they died. If we do nothing we will die which will cause a good portion of the world to follow. Does that mean we’re no smarter than the dinosaurs?

 

 

 

Author's Note

Dinosaur paragraph came from http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=158&theme=Printer

Reviews

[Dani California]

Interesting analogy. Is it really about intelligence, or about paying attention? If wearing protective eyewear, that dirt would not have blinded so many. But, we get too busy, forget to bring with.. you know. Caught up in the game... day in day out.

Funny word, intelligence. We only do what we are taught and told. I'm not sure... should that really be considered intelligence? Or are we really quite simple minded after all..

Great piece Ralphie !

[Lena M. P.]

It's known as living for today and let Joe blow fend for himself. Does no one plan or care for the future any longer? Everything is disposable; nothing is cherished. Will we wake up tomorrow and find we have destroy the day with our greed? If mankind is supposed to be the intelligent race I say give it back to the apes.

[Wildfleour]

I think the dinosaurs were smarter and stepped out of the way when their time was up. Unfortunately those who let Wall Street get away with this will cling on until they are mutated out through the food chain!

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