How Helly Hansen Fits into Historical Analysis
Channel: Matt
Date: 07/02/2022

Studied properly, Western consumer choices reveal more about post-WWII history than you might suspect. The more things change, the more they stay the same--and we continue to see the same four groups battling for influence all over the world: governments; multinational corporations; religion; and financial institutions. As of today, governments appear to be the weakest of the bunch because they've replaced taxes with debt. (February 2022) 

Bonus, from "The Striver," by Emily Hanford (2018): "Church was a big part of Mario's life. He'd started going about a year after he got out of jail. Mario gave God credit for the fact that he was in college. He told me he was lost until he started going to church, and God put him on the right path. 'I always tell everybody the change is God,' he said. 'Like only God can do that radical change. Most of the choices I was making was either going to end me in jail, crippled or probably dead.'" [Seen another way, governments, corporations, and banks have abandoned the poor, leaving them with only one option. Actually, two options--most people forget mafia influence.] 

Bonus: “Although I don’t feel that it’s at all necessary to tell you how I feel about the principle of individuality, I know that I’m going to have to spend the rest of my life expressing it one way or another..." -- Hunter S. Thompson (October 1957)