Meltdown

It is estimated that the Japanese culture began at least 10000 years ago. That is 100 centuries or 1000 decades. America has existed for 400 years or 4 centuries or 40 decades. Why is this of some import as we watch American television (can you imagine anything worse that having Diane Sawyer showing up at your own personal tragedy, say a death in the family or a bad accident or a missing child, and acting as if she was concerned?) and all they want to do is keep talking about meltdowns. Well Diane and all your silly “media personalities” at Fox and NBC and PBS and CNN, please read on.

Japan will survive just fine. They will help each other; they will expect and receive valuable assistance from their public servants and they will welcome the assistance of others who have expertise that they need in this time of devastation. But, Diane, what they do not need is you and your silly camp followers interfering with their way of dealing with this natural disaster. They know what needs to be done. Please leave them alone so that they can clean up; mourn their horrible losses and help each other. Please turn off the cameras; turn off the microphones; turn off the lights and either help out or go back to your four star hotels and have a drink in the fancy restaurant and then leave. Please leave and don’t force any more struggling humans to have to also try to be accommodating to your demands while they are trying to get to tomorrow and take care of their children and their other loved ones.

Now, will you listen? Of course not. You are an American. You are an American media person. No one could possibly know what they are saying if they suggest you either turn off the equipment and help out or just leave. No one can tell a brilliant American media person that just leaving would be an act of charity.

But here is the carrot Diane. A special incentive just for you. Here is what you are missing. Here is where you can actually scoop all those brilliant journalists and the folks from the national press clubs and the gang back at the New York soirees. Here is why TheFundamentals is addressing this message just to you Diane. You are the great seeker of important news. You like to get there first with the camera; the microphones; the personal interviews with victims and government personnel. The experts. Be they academics or bureaucrats or consultants or those special folks who you know because of your vast network and your experience and your wisdom in all these matters of disasters; of meltdowns.

Here is the scoop Diane.

We will whisper it. Just for you

There is a meltdown taking place back home. That’s right Diane. Right now. Right here. A meltdown that will not be overcome as will the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami. No. The meltdown in the homeland will not go away Diane. We know that you are counting on those really smart fellows like Bernanke and that little guy from the NYTimes – Krugman and that genius Greenspan and all those really smart people from the east coast that you see at all those parties. But you see Diane; this tragedy is going on all over America. Not just on the coasts but those are not bad places to start – like the Jersey coast and the California coast and the Long Island coast and the Maryland coast. But there is more. You can go to the Midwest where there is no coast and you can find the meltdown moving along just fine. You can go to the southwest and find meltdown. You can go to the northeast and find meltdown. It’s all over Diane. It’s just waiting for you and your heroic news folk to show up. But you see Diane there is one small difference between our local meltdown that you and the boys have been missing and the Japanese meltdown that is very well defined. You see Diane our meltdown is of our own making. The poor Japanese needed Mother Nature to give them theirs. But here at home we are doing it to ourselves.

Now that’s a story we would like to see you cover. American meltdown. No earthquakes. No tsunamis. Nope. Just greed. Just laziness. Just a whole bunch of arrogance. Mixed in with glorious quantities of foolishness. In America we don’t need earthquakes to produce tsunamis to produce meltdowns. We do it the easy way. We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. We borrow and borrow and we find brilliant economists to justify the process. We create currency from computer transactions. And then we sit back and justify it. We actually hire politicians to do the justification. And we count on people like you to run to foreign lands and ignore what is going on here. Our meltdown is moving along just fine, thank you.