“I’m out here studying what appears to be an epidemic of arrested development in the American Dream,” wrote Hunter S. Thompson from San Francisco to a New York Editor in the mid-1960s.
Fifty years later the effects of this epidemic have spread their ails across the entire American landscape. You can hardly peer about without evidence of the rampant degeneration – be it lack of manners or people too large for their sweat pants – lacerating your eyeballs.
There’s not much you can do to stop it. But you don’t have to be part of it. What’s more, there are ways you can make the best of it.
Today’s insights are for the patient and shrewd individual. If you are one among these few and far between fellows you’ll delight – and prosper – from what follows. And even if you can’t hold on to a buck, for fear it’ll burn your fingers, you may somehow find it within yourself to exploit this clever and elegant opportunity.
You only live once. Why not dare to do something that’s both fun and profitable…and a little subversive? Continue reading
