{"id":6141,"date":"2015-03-02T06:48:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2015-03-02T06:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:48:23","slug":"the-three-acronyms-that-best-describe-this-era-tina-tanstaafl-and-fugazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6141","title":{"rendered":"The Three Acronyms That Best Describe This Era: TINA, TANSTAAFL and FUGAZI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oftwominds.com\/blogmar15\/3-acronyms3-15.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><b>The Three Acronyms That Best Describe This Era: TINA, TANSTAAFL and FUGAZI<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>TINA and the complacent belief in free lunches strip the resiliency from a system and leave it vulnerable to collapse.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>It&#8217;s tough to select three acronyms that best capture the current perfection of central planning, central banking and centralized propaganda.<\/b>\u00a0FUBAR (f**ked up beyond all repair) is tough to beat, and for those with a taste for absurdist humor, ROTFLMAO is equally appropriate&#8211;especially when &#8220;official&#8221; economic data is issued by various Ministries of Truth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>After long deliberation, I&#8217;m going with TINA, TANSTAAFL and FUGAZI as best defining our era:<\/b>\u00a0<i>there is no alternative, there ain&#8217;t no such thing as a free lunch, and f**ked up, got ambushed, zipped in (to a body bag)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Let&#8217;s start with TINA,\u00a0<i>there is no alternative<\/i>, because this drives the other two.<\/b>\u00a0TINA is the favored phrase of those benefiting from the current arrangement; if they can sell everyone on the idea that this is the only possible arrangement, the tax-donkeys and debt-serfs (i.e. the bottom 90%) will passively accept their lot in life and those at the top of the heap will have a free pass to most of the wealth and power.<\/p>\n<p><b>But TINA also expresses a systemic rigidity<\/b>\u00a0that suppresses the variability and volatility needed to maintain real stability and not just a phony extend-and-pretend pseudo-stability.<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Acronyms That Best Describe This Era: TINA, TANSTAAFL and FUGAZI TINA and the complacent belief in free lunches strip the resiliency from a system and leave it vulnerable to collapse. It&#8217;s tough to select three acronyms that best capture the current perfection of central planning, central banking and centralized propaganda.\u00a0FUBAR (f**ked up beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2384,3873,3872,643,1302,3870,3871,3869,3868,868],"class_list":["post-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-elite","tag-fucked-up-got-ambushed-zipped-in","tag-fugazi","tag-power","tag-status-quo","tag-tanstaafl","tag-there-aint-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch","tag-there-is-no-alternative","tag-tina","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6142,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}