"For entertainment purposes only"

Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/opinion/gamestop-stock-market-economy.html

"For entertainment purposes only," hits the spot since the entertainment business with its fantasy advertising companion drives so much grasp of reality.

That is, the manufactured apperception of governance, religion, education, love, trust, blame, exaltation, current events, history, critique, gossip, legality, crime, just about all human intercourse and discourse, except, perhaps, only perhaps, those few humans without access to devices churning out a bizarre combination of "content" and ads, opinion and news, exposes and "facts", policies and lies, privacy protection and data siphoning.

Consider the tiny girl statue confronting the giant Stock Exchange, the young female poet addressing the world from the Capitol steps, The Greta exchanging insults with The Donald, saintly AOC vs. demonic Alex Jones, #MeToo vs. The Proud Boys, SM virality vs. The Virus, all ginned up in desk-fulls of coders and laboratories of scientists avidly pursuing funds and notoriety guided by Hollywoodish campaigns of headlines, photos, vid clips, tweets, Times Square street hawkers and daresay skimpily dressed street walkers, and, Representative Greene mouthing vile vomit perfectly scripted by NetFlix top hot takes.

Optical fiber cables and sat signals move hearts and minds and crypto to and fro at greater speeds than reason can capture, only inchoate desire and uncontrollable terror can keep pace with buy, sell, long, short, NSA, QAnon, malware, ransomware, comsec, WTF Wutan infectious deliria.