I try to avoid the newspapers as much as I can but I saw this photo on a paper tossed in a paper rack at my favorite taco joint and had to pick it up. It made me so fucking angry, as papers do, which shows you why I don’t read them, that I had to rewrite the article here for you to see, along with my commentary.
Take a look at this headline (in the “Sustainable Life” section):
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Penny and I moved back to Portland. It’s funny because she gave me so much shit for wanting to live in Portland, and I gave her shit about living in the country. Now the roles are reversed. I didn’t want to move back for the same reasons she wanted to leave, and she wanted to move back for the same reasons I wanted to stay.
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People have been barking up my tree over this whole economic collapse thing. You know what? I don’t give a shit! We’ve seen economic collapses before. In fact, they are a normal function of civilization; like clockwork they merely end with the creation of a worse slave system than before. One world currency, one world culture. America has amassed a lot of fake wealth (and weapons and technology). But why go to the third world for labor when you can bring the third world to you? I don’t see economic collapse as the end of civilization, but a reorganizing of the wealth that will end with a steeper pyramid; more people on the bottom and less people on the top. Like Global Warming, the economic collapse has not triggered anyone to actually stop civilization, walk away or rewild. Rather, it appears that it will simply mean more people working longer hours for less money in shittier jobs than before. The only plus side is that it will hopefully push many people over the edge and encourage more people to seek alternatives like rewilding. Personally, I’m ignoring the whole thing, the same way I am ignoring the presidential election. Fuck it. Fuck them all. Fuck this noise. Know what I’m sayin?
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