pennies from heaven

i suppose i've neglected this space recently. don't blame me, i've been busy preparing for marriage. shannon and i will be married on october 31 at noon, and already the world has changed, to a degree that is so drastic that many aspects of our daily lives seem trivial. so i'm commandeering the music portion of this site and using it to hopefully connect with a few understanding people. maybe, with whatever time we have, we will find some way to stay safe through this difficult time.

prospects are dim for the american working man, especially in his capacity to provide for his family on what have lapsed into depressed wages. but the new challenge for an adult is to find a way to assimilate his recently acquired skills, gained through whatever form of innoculation (university, unions), and retool this knowledge the dismantling of american capitalism.




if we're smart, and history proves we're not, we'll use the dimming of the american bulb as a sort of "quiet time" to gather the lost knowledge we will need to survive in a world without fuels. mechanics, construction workers, engineers, etc may even experience a temporary construction boom, as shopping malls are turned into schools, subdivisions into urban rowhomes, schools into hospitals, and whatever other retooling is necessary to accomodate the swelling mass of "economic refugees" we will encounter in this century.

futurists of the past have always come up with zany ideas of what the next three decades will hold technologically, from the Jetson's flying-saucer utopia to images of firemen flying on batwings to deliver hosewater to burning skyscrapers. as recently as last year, one could be forgiven for believing the future holds such marvels as quantum computing, or genetic therapies. in light of recent events, the voice of the capitalist seer is conspicuously absent. the average american seems to believe that the day-to-day shift of rather arbitrary number games as the DOW to be the best barometer for the entirety of our economy, and still has a tendency to think the economy is "stable" today if the index went up that day. a landfill's worth of lies festers deep under some of the basic elements of american lifestyle, and now the future looks as though we may have to live without our precious gadgets, and grow the fuck up.

i think any forward-thinking american should start to really ponder his/her personal energy diet, and figure out how he/she will find the resources required for a life without fuel. our journey into the tomorrowless era has only begun.