Truth engineering

One view might argue that truth would smell good. This comes from reactions of professors who claimed that something stinks. Many healthy, live bio-forms have a good smell. The Lord knows that many spend their time and resources getting people to buy that which smells good to them.

But, we have to hear it for the smelly (pejorative sense) side. Bio decay is part of a wholesome system. So, who are we to turn up our noses at that? Besides, many who are embedded in environments that are other than sterile (politically correctness) seem to get inured to bad smells.

I won't mention a French class room on a hot and humid day. That, pray tell, is an issue of sensitivity.

So, then, is "good smell" in the nose of the noser (as beauty is to the eye he/she who beholds)?

On the other hand, given that we know states of being, parameters involved, and related things, could we not assess the health of some state via smell? Yes, indeed. We do it all the time.

Now, given that, ought we smell rats in finance? Doesn't seem so, as the last post here was in 2009. Since then, Ben, then Janet, flayed the savers; on the other hand, he/she spike the punch bowl so that we have excessive inflation of things financial. It was about three years ago that some change came about. People just seemed to salivate as they thought of their 401k, albeit their money was mostly of a funny sort, virtually enjoyed.

You see, that last comment brings up the fact that the markets, as defined, have more losers than winners. The hope always is that one can be on the winning side. Oh, the poor dears, always being stuck in the position of loss, categorically.

Can the nose come into the argument here? We will see.

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10/03/2014 --