Sunday, May 29, 2011

Why Should I Write

It is really a pretty big question.  My output on this blog has dropped off radically.  Most of this is because the issues that I feel to be important have been written about by yours truly and I find rehashing the same old thing to be intellectually stale.

Most of the doomer literature fobbed off in blogs are TEOTWAWKI in nature.  The world is ending. Life is going to be a pile of shit.

I think that the world is going to be just fine.  The human race will adjust population-wise to a more sustainable level.  The energy use of the smaller population will decrease in net and per-capita terms.  A lot of the technological appurtenances that we hold so dear will be defaulted on.  In other words, we will be living a life appropriate to our means, not our desires.

I beat a drum which no one likes the rhythm.  The discordance of saying "we have taken too much, we cannot all be rich, we cannot all have everything"' is not appreciated in the vast majority.  Hell, it really isn't appreciated by my fellow doomers.

I really can't see how the whole thing is going to play out.  We might go Wiemar, or we might not, we might have a revolution, or we might not.  A new Andy Jackson might rise and start things fresh, or he might just stay at home.

What I do know is that I feel strongly that change is coming.  Unlike Harold Camping, I don't pretend that I have a secret formula where, if,  I can just get my calculations straight, I can peer though a clear glass into the future.  My glass is dark, and its reflections show much more of my prejudices and fear than the visions of a future world I so desperately wish to get a glimpse of.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Just an excellent cross posting

A homerun over at truthdig


Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_prophets_like_cornel_west_make_liberal_sell-outs_attack_20110523/

Posted on May 23, 2011

In Memorium

I used to listen tho this guy quite a bit back in the day.

Gil Scott Heron died in a New York Hospital.  He was 62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHOq8i5Pyk

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Old Stuff

Found and old blogger style set of post from back in 2005 that Google reminded me of.  I will be posting these up, nothing of particular interest, just a look at my sordid past.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Aisles



It really is kinda sad watching the white folks perform their little pathologies.  The greater bulk of these folks have had a steadily declining lifestyle and real income for years now, yet they cling desperately to the idea that things will be "going back to normal".


You can sense this in the stores that these folks infest.  The white folk like the big box stores, you know, the huge fuckers.  They steer their shopping carts down the aisle and gaze at things that they don't need.  They put something in their cart eventually and queue up at a line where a bored and disinterested clerk passes the object over a bar code scanner and the profits are tallied at corporate headquarters across the country .


The stores where I shop are a bit of a different story.  There are no shopping carts usually, just hand baskets.  The aisles are narrow and packed with items which I can read only one side of the label.  You excuse yourself when people pass through the same aisle because they aisles are narrow.  You try to learn the basics of any number of languages:  perdón and извините and 谢谢 are helpful and gratefully recieved.  The vegetables are limited and you had better be able to ask làm thế nào mới.  


The minor inconveniences of shopping in these places are more than paid for by shopping in a place that is alive.  Where the folks that are shopping next to are grateful for the gifts of their life, and the owners are proud of your business and take the money from your hand themselves.


The middle class whites of this country are going to be a memory soon.  The middle class, as we boomers grew up to envision it, was never anything but a mirage.  We will be going back to the normal state of affairs soon.  By practicing now, you can start to recognize that where we are going back to is a richer place than the sterile hell that we imagined as paradise.