We Are the Pea
The political air lies thick and heavy upon us, like the subtropical wedge of atmospheric sludge that has bogged down the northeast USA for weeks of soupy gray days when there is nothing to do but wonder when things will become unstuck. If the world is an organism, something is wrong with its blood. That blood is money, which allows the “developed” nations to run their advanced techno-industrial economies. Only the “money” is not exactly what we suppose it is, that is, colored paper coupons representing claims on future work or tangible collateral. The “money” is a matrix of counterparty entanglements so abstruse and impenetrable that all the vicars of Christendom (plus the mullahs of Islam, the monks of Mahayana, and the Op-Ed flunkies at The New York Times) would not avail to describe its metaphysical substance. Rather, a cosmic shell game is being played and we are the pea.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/we-are-the-pea/
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And on that basis, we can decide personal courses of action.
I've never believed that we are helpless. Too many fine individuals in America's past have disproved that notion.
However difficult the path ahead may be, if we need to change economically/politically/socially, we can look in the mirror for the solution.
