Wednesday, January 19, 2011

How They Lost Their Way



Darkness 2011

“Understand this apprentice! Forget what those derelict academics taught you in Yale…..let me tell you the story of the empire of the bones and how it came about.

The Americans and Europeans took a wrong turn in the eighties; some idiot thought it was a good idea to pack up all their factories like a traveling circus and move it to low cost producing countries like China, Vietnam and Mexico – many others saw that it too made sense, so they did the same – I don’t disagree in the short term; the cost of a shovel or toaster went right down and it would seem as if it was a boon to the average American as his dollar can be stretched further – but what they didn’t realize is these days when you take a look at even a Harley Davison, that iconic symbol of Americana; the head lamp is made in Xiamen, the drive train in Taiwan and all the average American worker is good for is just applying glue to a Harley-Davison badge – things are so bad these days; when you ask an average American shop floor worker to hand you a No.9 monkey wrench, he gives you a ticket to the zoo – there are no more skilled artisans; only kids sitting before a computer designing virtual bikes – and that is what happens when a factory is turned into a stock market. Worst of all they have lost the very one thing that makes possible for real sustainable wealth – say what you like about protectionism and xenophobia, but I think the Germans got it right.

Today if you go to Munich; you can see the benefits of what I call real wealth creation – when you walk around the BMW plant you will have very little doubt that what I am saying is so true, you don’t know this because your lecturers in Yale have never ever rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty before. I’ve worked in a factory, followed a shift even when I could have held down a decent 9 to 5 job in an air-conditioned cave. At that time, all my friends said, “look at Darkness, he is a wash out! He’s got a Masters of Science that nearly broke his balls and what does he do with it? He becomes a grease monkey!” But these same people today have no idea where to even begin valuing a factory or when one of those serious men ask them: is this a good place to plonk my money, all they can do is run to me – do you now see my young apprentice, they never once invested in the real!

Just like the Americans who traded in their factories for warehouses; they lost the ball; but look at how the Germans nourished the one thing those dumb Americans threw away; they kept the real, they fertilized the real and so they are the only race on this planet who know how to build real cars from the ground up, to turn a metal sheet into a car bonnet that sort of technology and let me tell you another thing, they do it cheaper than the Chinese – now you know why the Hasidic Jews control the diamond industry; they keep all 300 designs right up here.

Learn from the Jews, they know what is real – do you see those wise men outsourcing their black arts to China for a quick buck? So don’t tell me that Wall-Mart is heaven; it is the hottest place in Hell!”

Extracted from : - http://dotseng.wordpress.com

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