I could not agree more Richard. I keep asking myself (and a few others) why nobody in the proper spheres of influence is catching on to the fact that perhaps 'the world has moved on'. In my view, there is no recovery coming, not in the sense that we'll be returning to what was.
My sincere hope is that we consumers have had a collective epiphany and will be changing our behaviors accordingly. There is a better way Richard. I don't have the map, but I'm sure it exists.
Hey Henie, I sure hope your right...I know I'll do what ever I can to help fortify the collective for the transition.
chrismealey
· 9 months ago
What this nation needs in this economical crisis is to not be told all is lost, rather we need to hear from the media, our president, whoever that with great 'despair' as the media sees it, comes even greater opprotunity. It is that opprotunity that we should all see, the future is not foretold, it is what we make of it, so what good do we do ourselves by complaining about where we are if we're not doing something to be where we want to be?
Richard Reeve
· 9 months ago
Hello Chris, I do not disagree (though perhaps you think I do?). Indeed the point of my post is to untether the backward looking and to make a stand for the prospective.
Aaron Gaul
· 9 months ago
... and Perspective requires engagement --stepping up to the lectern. The nature and symbology of a fence: it is designed to hold different potentials on each side -- economic status, skin color, political and ideological perspective. A fence can contain tremendous energy. Separating the wanted from the unwanted. And, it is designed to do that in a detached way. Once the fence is built it can be ignored and left to do its work. We do not have to think about that fence containing that terrible energy.
Of course, there is high-tech electronic surveillance. However, that is a different kind of fence and perhaps a different post.
Richard Reeve
· 9 months ago
Hi Aaron, my favorite fence/wall appears in Midsummer's Night Dream when one of the players is the wall and he separates his fingers creating a chink for the lovers to whisper through...
Jay
· 9 months ago
hopefully the fences we build from now on will have bigger holes for us to see more clearly in the future!
Hey Jay, My sense is that no wall is about sight, but an action that flows from a fundamental decision to no longer look. Even the lovely stone walls that remain in the woods throughout the northeast...all the effort was to make it clear that this was mine...not yours, so don't bother trying to come tell me otherwise...
Screwed Up Texan
· 9 months ago
Excellent insight Richard and I dont think I could have put it any better myself. To me, finding a solution seems so supercomplex and daunting.
Yeah.. It's a weird thing.. society being so complex.. seems to me the strata that's trying to hit the reset is just the folks whom were benefiting from it most.. better to go out with a whimper then hear the heretic's cry?
I do think there's a lot of movement though.. towards building the new thing.. beneath the radar of traditional media.. I mean I'm having so many conversations like this..
I guess its just that heros wouldn't be heros if they were the norm?
The value of safety.. provided by our cages.. I guess its just a question of how the new values might spread through this collective medium.. that the ecology might shift.. so that the genes that spread are of the new order..
And you know.. at least we have a little heat moving that way?
Richard Reeve
· 9 months ago
Hey Matt, great of you to weigh in... So imagine Soros, who said a few weeks back is right when he says he see no bottom. The implication is that it drops all the way to zero. Then we will see necessity birth something few of us have dared to imagine.
Adriel Hampton
· 9 months ago
Was reading "Shock Doctine" recently. Too grim to occupy too much off my time, but it did get me thinking. We need to use this economic shock to enact radical populist reform in the same was Friedmanites/Neocons have done in the past to take away the rights of peoples.
Richard Reeve
· 9 months ago
Hey Adriel, I'm in "Awe" of the application. Politics is very much theater. I'm not convinced that the economy is though (except perhaps the engine that is entertainment explicitly, but even there it's just viable business). As resources continue to evaporate faster than water on a black board in the middle of summer, my sense is global suffering will get ratcheted up in an epic manner. Part of the bizarre quandary America faces in reconciling its own myth as this plays out can be seen in the following: we simultaneously sow war and destruction while believing we are guardians of all, you know, the huddled masses.
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My sincere hope is that we consumers have had a collective epiphany and will be changing our behaviors accordingly. There is a better way Richard. I don't have the map, but I'm sure it exists.
<abbr>Jeb Dickerson´s last blog post..The formative years</abbr>
<abbr>Henie´s last blog post..Guess The Photo Charity Contest (12for12k)</abbr>
I sure hope your right...I know I'll do what ever I can to help fortify the collective for the transition.
I do not disagree (though perhaps you think I do?). Indeed the point of my post is to untether the backward looking and to make a stand for the prospective.
Of course, there is high-tech electronic surveillance. However, that is a different kind of fence and perhaps a different post.
<abbr>Jay´s last blog post..Putting a Bright Light on the Shadow- An Intro</abbr>
<abbr>Screwed Up Texan´s last blog post..Shed the Shell of Shame</abbr>
sometimes we just need to let go...
I do think there's a lot of movement though.. towards building the new thing.. beneath the radar of traditional media.. I mean I'm having so many conversations like this..
I guess its just that heros wouldn't be heros if they were the norm?
The value of safety.. provided by our cages.. I guess its just a question of how the new values might spread through this collective medium.. that the ecology might shift.. so that the genes that spread are of the new order..
And you know.. at least we have a little heat moving that way?
So imagine Soros, who said a few weeks back is right when he says he see no bottom. The implication is that it drops all the way to zero. Then we will see necessity birth something few of us have dared to imagine.
I'm in "Awe" of the application. Politics is very much theater. I'm not convinced that the economy is though (except perhaps the engine that is entertainment explicitly, but even there it's just viable business). As resources continue to evaporate faster than water on a black board in the middle of summer, my sense is global suffering will get ratcheted up in an epic manner. Part of the bizarre quandary America faces in reconciling its own myth as this plays out can be seen in the following: we simultaneously sow war and destruction while believing we are guardians of all, you know, the huddled masses.