Went looking for an effort comment in my profile, but came across this bit of critical analysis I had forgotten about.

Not to be crass, but this really made me think of refractory period and masturbation. Boom and BUST of capital is just jerking off. The hype gets stronger and stronger until somehow a big mess is made of things, usually before any of the players quite know what is happening. Capital on the edge is just 'irrational exuberance'. Then there is the post-bust clarity. This is when the libs all start wiping away the stickiness of the situation, trying to do apologia for capital.

"It wasn't supposed to happen like that! We're sorry, it'll be good for everyone next time."

Which obviously leads into the next phase of lib fluffing of the spongy wreckage.

"It's too bad about this bust, but there's all this wonderful potential now. We just need to keep stroking the egos of capital, and this economy will be rock solid in no time again!"

paging VolCel vanguard btw

Now I'm trying to figure out how to condense this into a meme.

e: 1st attempt at meme form of this

https://hexbear.net/post/1259122

  • AernaLingus [any]
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    11 months ago

    PE = private equity premature ejaculation

    Does this imply that anticapitalism is edging?

    • culpritus [any]
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      11 months ago

      Low federal funds rate is viagra I guess, which leads to prolonged 'edging' when credit is cheap, but that collapses due to 'over leveraging' going well past what the 'edge' can maintain. I think that's fairly consistent application of the metaphor.