04.04.09
The Desperate Selectric Soupline Man
The notorious anti-car wanker Duncan Black writes of his concerns for the economy, long-term:
The worry is that there isn’t just some weak demand in certain sectors which a bit of adjustment will sort out eventually, but that instead there’s a structural shift which will require a much longer transition period before things get better. I’m worried, anyway.
I agree. The good deeds of increased efficiency, superseded needs, and greater reliability will not go unpunished. No one wants phone books or junk mail or Muzak anymore. We are losing landlines, newspapers, car companies, and retail outlets. Is it by design? No: it’s by nature. Capitalism recapitulates the whole concept of natural selection. Circumstances shift and what appeared to be an immovable necessity then appears irresistably superfluous now. What can be done? Some stuff. But there are no prophetic insights that society can act on in concert that will make sense of or save us from what is happening today. There is an incredible lot of short-sightedness guiding the politician class right now that is deeply discouraging to long-term notions of stability. There is a shocking lack of critical thinking right now amongst our elected representatives that appears heedless and destructive, but which is romantically termed transformative and historic.
Well, the lack of critical thinking about Obama’s plans is what’s worst about partisanism. It is reflexive and herdlike. The worst slur a Leftist can concoct —even at this late hour— is some reference or comparison to George W. Bush. But even as Bush is their standard of awfulness, his example cannot mitigate or excuse the insanity of Obama’s budgets. Why are the Democrats in Congress so reckless with our debt? Because their leadership are Marxists who do not yet understand that their ambitions of leveling are delusional.
It is a helpless feeling to watch this systematic weakening of our economic stability at the hands of these wretched Socialist bastards. Who will rid us of them and their schemes?
