squirejons

why is it that we sleep better with the sounds of a rainstorm going on?

Because we evolved as animals being preyed upon by large predators, big cats, packs of dogs etc.

When our preyed-upon ancestors heard the sounds of a rainstorm they knew that they could sleep because the predators don't usually hunt during a rainstorm, and that the predators could not smell them during a rainstorm.

Evolutionarily, selection wise speaking, those who slept during a rainstorm got rested and were better rested afterward, and so were more likely to pass on their genes.

The rainstorm is the friend of the prey animal.

more importantly, americans need to realize that the elite have recast american history as it relates to white slavery, black slavery, the civil war, the immigration moratorium of the 1920s, jim crow, hitler, the civil rights movement, the constitution, and the anti-smoking movement.

The USA is built on false history as pushed via the educational system.

To paraphrase Orwell from his novel 1984, they who control the past control the future.

the real story behind this is how americans and american social and political policy is being manipulated by corporations.

We swim in a sea of propaganda. We need to wake up to that fact.

insanity...but I guess it is not without precedent. In decades past the elite used propaganda to convince young men to go to war and lay down their lives for nothing.

I guess it is easier to convince young people today to go into heavy debt for a degree that has little worth. At least it is easier than convincing them to die for nothing.

but is right now a good time to buy into an index fund? Or to buy any stock?

Most things revert to the mean, and right now the market is substantially above mean, and that market level is based on other aspects of the world that are currently also out of mean.

the Doodle abides....and somehow I take comfort in that...

yeah, less mass immigration means a lower supply of labor, which means higher wages for workers. That's horrible!

Oh, wait, you were speaking from the perspective of the corporations and rich investors who have to pay wages.

Funny how you adopted that perspective when you are a worker yourself.....

ever notice how the corporate media is always trying get more people into the developed nations? Mass immigration! More people! More People! More Babies! MOAR! MOAR!

This baby dearth, combined with the ability of the japanese to keep their elites from increasing mass immigration, means less supply of labor, which means higher wage (remember supply and demand? It applies to labor, too). That means that the corporations that support the corporate media via advertising buys will pay more for labor. The media hates that!

Also, fewer people means fewer consumers for the products advertised in the media. The media hates that!

The media is the enemy of the majority working class citizen of the developed nations.