settings change: from easy to hard

[decrypt_era]

I made a guess in January and also back in 2008 that the US dollar would fall on 15 August 2011, a fortnight from now. We're talking a psychological marker here, like 1929's Black Thursday - this transition is, of course, taking longer than a day. Global monetary collapse was already well underway in 2008, so my remarks were less oracular vision,

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[strangedave]

It's recently occurred to me that what we see with the climate change debate is what has been going on for years in economics, but because economists are far more complicit and the general public less interested, the wrong side is far more effective. A debate where one side is intellectually vacuous and largely known to be wrong, but funded by the wealthy oligarchs in their own self interest is still considered mainstream. The idea that tax cuts on the wealthy benefits anyone but the rich, or that private debt is more valuable than public, or that you should cut govt spending in a recession, that financial speculation is the most valuable sector of the economy - largely known to be nonsense by economists, but considered mainstream economic wisdom, because there is a concerted campaign to support these ideas by people who benefit.

mythological warfare

[decrypt_era]

You said it. We live in a colonised culture, don't we? I mean, our culture doesn't belong to us, wasn't really created by us and so, unsurprisingly, doesn't serve our interests. The power structure's learnt a thing or two, over the millenia, about the domestication of cro magnons. To conquer a population means more than the enclosure of their land and means of production, the capture of their labour - their language must also be stolen, their way of life, their stories

[lucretiae]

Can I provoke no discussion here?

Nope, probably not. I haven't logged into Facebook for ages, and I don't own an iPhone. I'm too busy, exhausted and stressed bringing up a precocious toddler and holding down a job 5 days a week so that Matt can build the house and the mostly self sufficient lifestyle that will hopefully unshackle me and my immediate family from most of the nastyness that will ensue when the global markets collapse again.

[decrypt_era]

Heh, out of all the people I know, you guys are probably the most prepared for this shit. Not saying much though. I haven't even got the garden back to where it was before the accident. Ah well, at least I'm, uh, multiskilled.