http://www.razarumi.com In search of the unsearchable: O, my soul! where would you find your house? Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:20:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.razarumi.com/documents-archive/no-tolerance-for-richistans-obscene-wealth-is-not-victimless/#comment-3239 Jahane Rumi - In search of the unsearchable: “…O, my soul! where would you find your house?” » The inequitable world that we live in (on the “filthy rich”) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:52:14 +0000 http://www.razarumi.com/documents-archive/no-tolerance-for-richistans-obscene-wealth-is-not-victimless/#comment-3239 [...] Negotiating with my middle class guilt, I have been pondering over this article. I had posted on Richistans earlier - somehow the obscenity of excessive (many would disagree here) wealth continues to irk me [...] [...] Negotiating with my middle class guilt, I have been pondering over this article. I had posted on Richistans earlier - somehow the obscenity of excessive (many would disagree here) wealth continues to irk me [...]

]]> http://www.razarumi.com/documents-archive/no-tolerance-for-richistans-obscene-wealth-is-not-victimless/#comment-1672 Jahane Rumi - In search of the unsearchable: “…O, my soul! where would you find your house?” » No Tolerance for Richistans - Obscene Wealth is not victimless! Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:52:51 +0000 http://www.razarumi.com/documents-archive/no-tolerance-for-richistans-obscene-wealth-is-not-victimless/#comment-1672 [...] Full entry here >> This entry is filed under Personal, Politics, Globalization, Arts & Culture, All My Posts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 7 Responses to “No Tolerance for Richistans - Obscene Wealth is not victimless!” 1 I Me My says: June 26th, 2007 at 1:52 pm Not surprising though, this increased tolerance for Richistan. We have at least three channels here that are devoted to displaying the opulence and glamour of the rich and famous; lo and behold the channel has record breaking viewer statistics! People are ready to lap up all the glitz that they see and are still wanting for more! Little is this seen as a ’systemic failure” as Bunting puts it. We’ve developed an uncanny tolerance for excessive wealth like we have for obesity here in the USA. It is a relief that at least obesity is now recognized as a societal ill that has gained epidemic proportion. We can only hope that at some point the blinded middle class will awaken to the reality of ‘Richistan’ and stop pandering to it. 2 RR says: June 26th, 2007 at 3:15 pm IMM: thanks for the comment and pointing out some supporting evidence. I also hope that people wake up to this reality and say no to this culture of greed and enviable spectator sport. 3 nota says: June 27th, 2007 at 6:36 am As I Me My point about the channels dedicated to lifestyles of the rich and famous, it is by design. By that I mean you are shown these people with this obscene wealth intermingled with the message that you can one day get there (99.99% of you never will). Also hidden in these features are marketing messages selling you “designer” stuff so penniless bastards like us pay $40 for a $2 shirt just because it has a Nike swoosh on it and somehow feel like we are somebodies wearing one. This leads to another fallacy — most people you talk to are certain they are part of the middle class when in reality only about 1-in-10 of them are — and I am being optimistic here. Just spending your 3 months salary on a new Nokia makes you so much poorer no matter how rich you feel flashing it around…but that my friend is the trick: You feel richer while getting poorer making the very rich richer and the gap between you and them getting even wider… 4 kinkminos says: June 27th, 2007 at 8:16 am (The older I get, the more convinced I am that Douglas Adams was spot on with his assessment of our Glorious Planet Earth being somebody else’s science project.) [...] [...] Full entry here >> This entry is filed under Personal, Politics, Globalization, Arts & Culture, All My Posts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 7 Responses to “No Tolerance for Richistans - Obscene Wealth is not victimless!” 1 I Me My says: June 26th, 2007 at 1:52 pm Not surprising though, this increased tolerance for Richistan. We have at least three channels here that are devoted to displaying the opulence and glamour of the rich and famous; lo and behold the channel has record breaking viewer statistics! People are ready to lap up all the glitz that they see and are still wanting for more! Little is this seen as a ’systemic failure” as Bunting puts it. We’ve developed an uncanny tolerance for excessive wealth like we have for obesity here in the USA. It is a relief that at least obesity is now recognized as a societal ill that has gained epidemic proportion. We can only hope that at some point the blinded middle class will awaken to the reality of ‘Richistan’ and stop pandering to it. 2 RR says: June 26th, 2007 at 3:15 pm IMM: thanks for the comment and pointing out some supporting evidence. I also hope that people wake up to this reality and say no to this culture of greed and enviable spectator sport. 3 nota says: June 27th, 2007 at 6:36 am As I Me My point about the channels dedicated to lifestyles of the rich and famous, it is by design. By that I mean you are shown these people with this obscene wealth intermingled with the message that you can one day get there (99.99% of you never will). Also hidden in these features are marketing messages selling you “designer” stuff so penniless bastards like us pay $40 for a $2 shirt just because it has a Nike swoosh on it and somehow feel like we are somebodies wearing one. This leads to another fallacy — most people you talk to are certain they are part of the middle class when in reality only about 1-in-10 of them are — and I am being optimistic here. Just spending your 3 months salary on a new Nokia makes you so much poorer no matter how rich you feel flashing it around…but that my friend is the trick: You feel richer while getting poorer making the very rich richer and the gap between you and them getting even wider… 4 kinkminos says: June 27th, 2007 at 8:16 am (The older I get, the more convinced I am that Douglas Adams was spot on with his assessment of our Glorious Planet Earth being somebody else’s science project.) [...]

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