Savage Capitalism

So -, (there's that beginning again! lol) my objective here is to 1. look at ways for us all to make money in this present climate of numbness following the recent Stock Market collapse, and 2. to try and make your spending of money productive and not wasteful, since I believe it is neither possible nor spiritually necessary to entirely stop spending it.

Waaaa?!

Yes, it is not spiritually possible or necessary.

I don't even remember why I was
going to do 'Campari bars.'
(Yes I do, maybe we'll do it later).

People spend money because they have invested an emotional value in something requiring the spending of money, and that object or exercise is meaningful.

How can you wipe out the meaningfulness of something and still feed your soul?

It's of course, not the object that you are consuming - it's the spiritual quanta.

Dior's current Sauvage line is utterly brilliantly marketed directly to the American male psyche.

To which extent it is certainly not what is inside the bottles that count...

Now.

You are about to embark upon an adventure and a highly advanced exercise in the art of money-making, and as you read this particular line itself even, your internal mind is starting to recognize it.

A bottle of new, unopened Dior Sauvage in the United States is anywhere from $200 to over $300.

You are buying a road trip through Nevada in a late Sixties muscle car, with the soul of Raymond Chandler tied up in the boot of your vehicle.

Dodge Charger...

...At night, with coyotes, and shovels. And the talismans and trinkets of a Navajo medicine man around you for protection.

An empty bottle is available on the net for maybe twenty bucks plus postage.

You are faced with considerable choices. One of them being that you can have potentially gorgeous counter-staff entertain your questions at a department store, as you part with several hundred dollars of money. Giving you the opportunity to impress them with your Johnny Depp wild-man style.

If you polled fifty thousand modern-day Australians you will get none of them acknowledge any such person as 'Percy Savage.'

Percy Savage is the person Edmond Roudnitski named his creation after. He was an Australian.

And he was a very famous Australian.

Percy Savage.

Percy Savage was the very first person recognized as a publicist in the world of Haute Couture and he was a designer with Lanvin for Elizabeth Taylor (among many other things that he did).

The original Dior Eau Sauvage (real name 'Oh, C'est Monsieur Sauvage') is aged in barrels in Grasse from virtually all completely natural ingredients except for maybe - although this is not absolutely certain - the aroma molecule hydroxycitronellal, the use of which was pioneered by Edmond Roudnitska.

Armed with your five dollar Zento ballpoint (the actual best functional ballpoint in the world) and notebook, you yourself are be found at the latest of late-nite coffee places wherever you are regionally present (and awake!) at the given time, writing down concepts and points about the present state of play of markets, currencies, economies, and your ability to finance whatever you are doing.

And when you sleep, you do so with fresh-cut spruce fascicles layered (three/five of) under your pillow, whatever that pillow is being made of at that moment.

Or pine, or fir. Any kind of evergreen actually.

And, since you have the secret technique that was used by the witch queen Medea and the early cult Christians, you will be able to access all knowledge of the future: head, heart, and soul (thank you, Kaheva) - when you sleep.

If you ever watch these 'reaction videos' made by modern-day kids of this track, they will all feign moral outrage at the dubious sexual ethics in the lyrics. LOL