don't buy a new car, house, or take that european vacation until you talk to pete best

 don't buy a new car, house, or take that european vacation until you talk to pete best

fiction

edward w pritchard

Americans are scratching their heads as they watch all the large cap super duper stocks crash and with it their delusions about permanent prosperity and endless riches. Us baby boomers have gotten old and we are getting swept out along with our delusions and ideals. 

Don't despair ask original beatles drummer Pete Best who was replaced just before the fab four hit the big time what it's like to be thrown out with the trash. 

Watch your sacred stocks and investment like fine homes, expensive cars and meta stocks crash and throw you to the junk pile with them. Your old dude. It's time for a new paradigm and your not invited. 

I liked Ringo Star a lot but Pete Best didn't seem like such a bad guy. Things have changed, try to make yourself comfortable baby boomer when you are uncerimoniously tossed on to the trash pile. 

they call them the baggies

 they call them the baggies

fiction

edward w pritchard

When a stock has crashed and former investors keep hanging on , desperately buying more and more to average down on manipulated dips and buying occasionally more, more, more  on the ravings of mad men;  they call those hangers on,  those gullible saps,  the baggies, that is bag holders, holding a bag of worthless garbage. Baggies are all delusional but in a nice, hopeful, patient way. 

America has crashed and former patriots keep hanging on desperately becoming more and more optomistic

desperately hoping that  a decaying document of 18th century values will rejuvenate  a dying nation.

 Dismantle the war machines and worship of wealth America- times have changed. Listen to the falling soft rains, a few minutes pre dawn. Rain, the greatest commodity in the universe, to erase our sins. 

Alzheimer's disease

 Alzheimer's disease

fiction

edward w pritchard

There are none of the minor actors in Shakespeare or other playwrights except Death who waits backstage clear till act five to give his few lines on the death of Kings. In real life when Death sits at the bedside of the poor soul with Alzheimer's disease does Death wait and wait months and years indifferently to finish his lines until after a short eternity Death mumbles his final denouement. Only then does the audience shuffle off, heads hung down, with confused emotions.  

choose your psychological make up

 choose your psychological make up

fiction

edward w pritchard

Should you base your behavior and psychological makeup on Neitzche's writings and similar philosophies   or the Good Summarian? That seems to be the confrontation facing ordinary Americans and wrong choices among many can lead to 

an unhealthy breakdown in the social order. Which seems to be happening now. 

Help others, harm no one, and force yourself if necessary to be cordial with strangers. If your moods lead you to be two faced like Janus keep the cynic in yourself and display in public your positive proclivities the best you can. 

I am starting today. Join me.