Loading ...Someone sent me a article written last year by Gary North. I’m not sending the whole article because there subscription content but a few paragraphs. He’s spot on here and how people get taken in by other people creating a boogeyman. There’s too much out there leaving us the burden of filtering them out. This is why he’s spot on.
PAVLOV’S BELL
We all know the story about Pavlov’s dogs. He fed them food and rang a bell. They would salivate. Then, after lots of these experiences, he would ring the bell, and they would still salivate. But there would not be any food.
I contend that click bait artists on the web are the equivalent of Pavlov. They ring certain bells. Certain people click on these links, the way that Pavlov’s dogs salivated. There is a kind of salivation in both cases.
He mentioned Klaus Schwab and Gates as two popular baits. Also Schwab is all talk with no real plan and Gates should of been giving more attention to his wife.
I am convinced that the people who read these articles are not interested in cause-and-effect. They are interested in excitement. Some people are addicted to gambling. Other people are addicted to getting excited about hypothetical scenarios that never come true, and for which there is almost zero evidence that they could ever come true. That is their thrill. The person reading about this does not expect it to take place. He does not change his lifestyle. He does not move to a small town. He does not pull his money out of the bank. He has not put 80% of his net worth into one-ounce American gold eagles. He has not quit his job. He just clicks on these articles, reads them, and gets all tingly. “It is so exciting! What is next?” Business as usual is next.