Every time I meet what I think are educated intelligent humans and we start chatting about the economy i find a large portion of them believe the following;1) Our government wouldn't lie to them.
2) It must be getting better because all the "experts" say so.
Even though I can bring them a phone book worth of facts that disprove the above two points, or all they have to do is look around, they will still disagree with me. Being the analytical geek that I am I figured there must be some reason that people behave this way so I embarked on a mini research project that involved the science of psychology (head shrinking) and I found this little tidbit from a fellow that was phenomenally successful a perpetrating a very big lie.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler explained the believability of the Big Lie as compared to the small lie: "In the simplicity of their minds, people more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have such impudence. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and continue to think that there may be some other explanation."
So there it is from the horses mouth or in the words of one of my favorite actors Jack Nicholson "You cant handle the truth!".
Not much happened today on quadruple witching day and we ended about where we started. Out pick did not fill so Mondays pick will be GG long @ 42.11 Good Luck.
