Look at this disturbing image carefully, because it is a window into the sick reality of the mass media culture we live in.
As an article on TheVerge.com comments:
The picture trips all of our "horrible cyberpunk future" alarms, carefully put in place by everything from The Matrix to Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. The former uses evil squid-bodied robots, the latter privileged human elites, but both works see humanity too distracted and preoccupied — by a full-scale replica of late-90s reality, or just sports on TV — to even be aware of the actions of those in charge. Zuckerberg's picture acts this out: MWC attendees plugged into Samsung's Gear VR headset literally can't see the Facebook boss as he breezes past them.
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You may wonder what this has to do with investing?
The answer is everything.
The stock market bubble bull gets all of his information from the CNBC programs and internet sites like Yahoo Finance where he is told over and over again that the stock market will go up forever and to chase stocks so he buys, believes, and then holds as he loses.
Meanwhile the insiders he does not see dump shares like crazy.
And they hold the bag.
If they did real work and research than they would know what was happening, but they do not and so their eyes remain closed to the big trends of the market when they now need to sell, bet against junk stocks, and buy gold to win.