Just Putting Some Things In Perspective

I just want to put some things in perspective really quickly, because the world seems extremely volatile and unpredictable lately, which can make for a lot of fear. Now I'm not an economist (surprise!), and I don't have any foreign policy experience. I have no valuable suggestions TOWARDS solutions to the world's current crises, much less actual solutions. But I think that the following statistic is somewhat useful in gauging the actual state of affairs.

This video in which Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke produces some darkly ominous predictions about what the near future of the economic crisis looks like was posted earlier today.

It currently has 65 views.

The latest Fred video was posted yesterday.

It has more than 182,000 views.

"Party on, Wayne."
"Kill yourself, Garth."

Posted by Gabe at 3:15 PM in WebJunk
Tags: Apocalypse | Ben Bernanke | Fred

8 Comments

god...damnit

Posted by: will at 10/07/08 3:32 PM  | Reply
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who is this fred, and why is he making my ears bleed?

Posted by: randi at 10/07/08 3:35 PM  | Reply
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http://videogum.com/archives/vlogging/parents-do-you-know-what-your_010215.html

Posted by: Gabe  in reply to  randi's comment at 10/07/08 4:14 PM  | Reply
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Real [Unfortunate] Talk: I clicked on the Fred video first, and watched it in its entirety. Then I clicked on Chairman Ben's vid and watched 0:06 seconds of it.

I defend myself as follows: I was publicly heckled at work today and was too tired to cleverly punk out the heckler, and so have started drinking already to stop the replay of it in my mind. I am sure I will get back to the Chairman vid soon.

Posted by: Angelaaaa at 10/07/08 3:35 PM  | Reply
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it's keen observations of situations like this and also the very serious 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua' issue that really make me miss the Unethicist. Cuz, it's like, not only do the internet browsing, shitty movie watching masses need to go kill themselves, but also the NY Times Magazine writing psuedo intellectual assholes that need to go kill themselves. Pretty much everyone is the worst.

Posted by: spanky at 10/07/08 6:32 PM  | Reply
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ohhhh i miss the unethicist too.

Posted by: chia  in reply to  spanky's comment at 10/07/08 8:54 PM  | Reply
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That's some real talk. Denton fucked up big time.

Posted by: itsthenewjanbrady  in reply to  chia's comment at 10/08/08 6:40 PM  | Reply
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Also, The Unethicist was the reason I started reading Gawker long ago. So, there you go Gabe.

Posted by: itsthenewjanbrady at 10/08/08 6:40 PM  | Reply
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