By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at
On Monday, I shared with you a conversation I had with an entrepreneur Mahdi Kazemzadeh, who's built a business in Iran.
Here's the astonishing thing: despite being Iranian Mahdi isn't a terrorist. No, really!
The mere mention of Iran gets the dog-pack enzymes flowing with an easily influenced Western media-fed crowd. Pack mentality surfaces, except that those who are exhibiting it don't call it that. No, instead they call it patriotism (discussed here), which miraculously is seen as a good, honourable, virtuous quality rather than a mental disorder.
I've spent a lot of time discussing the qualitative aspects affecting the global macro landscape and I receive hundreds of emails each month thanking me for sharing them. I'm deeply humbled and in fact 99.9% of readers are kind, curious, engaging, and where they disagree they do so in an intelligent and intellectually stimulating way. I genuinely love it, even if I can't respond to all.
I like to think of Capitalist Exploits as a home for independent, objective thought. The ability to step back, observe, question where the consensus may be wrong, look to economic history for guidance, and to then objectively invest according to probabilities is at the very centre of how I feed my family and what this little corner of cyberspace is all about.
We're here to make money, not to be popular.
As such, it's amusing when occasionally a moron pops his wee little head up.
Fortunately, morons are desperately easy to spot. They stick out like a giant zit on a prom queen. Logic has left the building, wild accusations are used, and the pack instinct is alive and kicking. They operate purely from an emotional level, not unlike a 4-year old who's been told Santa isn't coming this year.
After publishing the conversation on Monday discussing Iran with Mahdi I received the usual thank yous and then this doozy:
"Listen you kangaroo meat eating hill billy...
you better quit talking ignorant bullshit about the U.S. and Trump, two subjects you know absolutely nothing about. I know you're probably upset with yourself since you turned out to be a shit money manager and are having a very tough time dealing with redemptions but why don't you concentrate on educating yourself and start practicing some class."
Bless this poor intellectually retarded soul.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-12/pack-instinct-fertile-grounds-meatheads?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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