one more time...

a slip and a dip and tomorrow maybe a pop
as the dead cat bounce continues to doo-wah bebop,
awaiting the next tickle down---
the next pump nozzle drop...

...and the market averages multiple down as the panicked double down their downs, looking for the bottom---the key word is down. But the sky may not be all so much falling, it actually may be opening up, creating a fissure in the Wall Street ceiling where much of our national worth is measured by how much is earned off of subscriber debt---debt accumulated by the accumulation of accumulates, and industrial disease---inhaled and absorbed seepage, residual from all the accumulative ooze.

Looking at prosperity as one thing and gluttony as another, are we possibly seeing the real fruition for 30 years of sanctioned gluttony? Banks imploding, oil prices on the brain---that to which ridiculously all life is umbilically attached, an impending food shortage, that global warming thing, and I am part of this cog---buying 10 times more cars in my lifetime than I had reasons for and I didn't know why at the time. Is this possible prelude to a shortage the trigger we need to spur a collective cooperativeness not seen since our ancestors trudged across the prairies in search for a better place to subsist: a pullback of more than the wallet? Original conservatives understood the value of community and being good stewards of the land. They knew that if you extracted without replenishing, abundance in all its forms could go to shit real fast. And that is all this new Capitalism is about... extraction. I don't know what the fuck the current NeoCons are thinking besides "more is better" and less is some one elses problem. I suspect that eventually, the ideology driving this new and supposedly improved corporate socialist structure will affect even the most die hard denialists deeper than what is at the bottom of the wallet. The question is---how long will it take and what can some of us do in the meantime to offset the inevitable calamities and dramas to come? How much more ineffective pissing and sniffing can we continue to tolerate?

Run away?
To where?
Hide, horde, and defend?
From what?

I keep thinking of the concept of Intentional Community and what that encompasses. I worry about the human ability for creating exclusive tribes which easily can lead to repression and oppression via the absolutes of authority. We seem to have enough of that on the national level and just who benefits from that? I wonder if required attachment to process and awareness of responsibility can overcome the inclinations for perceived privileged or subscriber inclusive/exclusive structures. I worry about retreat as a disconnect and how we really can't afford to disconnect. Us versus them has no place in quest for sustainability. We can't keep warring against each other, even on just a verbal level. History shows it can and most likely will escalate.

Creating a base for local mercantilism, agriculture, art, and individual expression, is not a utopian concept. Gathering into cooperatives for support and collective leverage for subsistence is not a hippie only thing. This might well be the best way to implode: micro villages, human terroir denoting place where a mental environment for access to a fair and even plane exists. A redefinition of want and need, one that doesn't impede or regress, but refocuses.

In the meantime... Go Bama