Take, for instance, their choices for "Person of the Year" over the past 10 years shown below. Four of them weren't even individual people (2011, '14, '17, '18). Making the case for extended stupidity, in 2006, the Person of the Year was awarded to "You" (kidding you not).
The other six included a three US presidents (and one VP, Harris), one for a second time (Obama), a foreign leader ((Merkel), a Pope and a nagging, teenaged environmentalist, proving just how short-sighted the editors at Time are, that they can't see beyond the people most prominent in the media, and those just seeking attention.
Looking back over the past decade, this list is pretty disappointing, not so much that the individual people are largely politicians, but that the magazine and its editors think they are the most influential, or powerful, or had contributed the most to the human experience over the course of a year. Where the heck are soccer moms, grocery store clerks, gardeners, carpenters, engineers, scientists, wedding planners, babies, and the vast array of people who make life worth living just by doing their jobs. Heck, there isn't even a movie star or pop singer among them.
For better or for worse, the world lives with the likes of the auteurs formerly known as Time magazine and other formerly-magnificent publications and media outlets like the Washington Post and NY Times, which still have reporters and opinion-makers who fall over each other trying to get the inside scoop from politicians who are shadows of the great leaders who came before them.
The same can be said of business and culture. The people at the top just aren't making it for the most part. Allowing for maybe a 10% drop-off, politicians are all dirty, journalists are all vapid, business leaders are all corrupt and greedy, and movie stars and pop culturalists are snobs. The world is falling to pieces because 99% of the population has some fascination or adoration (ughh!) with the one percenters who got to where they are either through inheritance, corruption, lying, cheating, or stealing.
Sure, some survived on talent, but has anyone taken a really close look at the people who are occupying the White House lately? These folks are devoid of common sense, driven by lust for power, have accomplished little, and care more about their personal appearance and mask etiquite than they do the American people.
The one prominent leader that had a backbone, accomplishments, savvy and fearlessness - Donald J. Trump - was pilloried and cancelled by the culturalists and a broken political, judicial, and journalistic system.
Americans are like sheep being led to slaughter, the vast majority of them going willingly to slaughter. After being told to stay home, lose your job, wear a mask, stay six feet apart, and don't sneeze for a year, lots of really, really stupid people have decided to get stuck in the arm with a needle containing a mystery vaccine concoction of chemicals and fluids that haven't been adequately tested just so they can get on with whatever small part of their lives are left to them.
No wonder stupid people are leading the way down the paths of destruction. The people following are even dumber.
Perhaps we're being a little to harsh in evaluating the power people of our time. Perhaps it's always been this way, but we've failed to notice until now, now that it's probably too late to matter, but, the people who make the rules and then don't follow them, just are not very impressive.
Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, the cast of SNL, Grammy winners, just seem so... disingenuous, aloof, and lacking. America, and the world, deserves better.
Heads up on Wednesday's trading includes a 2:00 pm ET announcement by the FOMC of the Fed that interest rates are not changing. It's not a big deal unless the Fed’s move some of their dot plots around or Jerome Powell makes some noises about inflation or velocity or money supply, all of which seems unlikely.
Looking ahead, Friday is a quad-witching day for options and futures, which may be cause for volatility.
At the Close, Tuesday, March 16, 2021:
Dow: 32,825.95, -127.51 (-0.39%)
NASDAQ: 13,471.57, +11.86 (+0.09%)
S&P 500: 3,962.71, -6.23 (-0.16%)
NYSE: 15,669.30, -106.21 (-0.67%)
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