there's little we can do but wait for the next crisis. And the longer we have deflationist policies, the more I think the only think that will make a difference is that the pain is bad enough that you have riots big enough to scare the elites.
I shudder to realize we've (once again?) entered a time where one would write a sentence like that. Would even need to write so. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
'68-type is very possible in Europe: protest, mass demos, vandalism against wealth, even casualties. But we don't have the guns for a '79. We do, however, have video-equipped phones.
I've just been checking out some concepts where any event can be cubist-recorded by pre-registering mobile phones and then providing multiple streaming feeds to a web aggregator. i.e. 'if you are watching us, we'll watch you'. SMS can be used to communicate between 'cameras' and 'directors'. You can't be me, I'm taken
We do, however, have video-equipped phones.
but they can shut down cell towers if they dare, didn't they in burma?
i guess you can still shoot pix and use the web to disseminate. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
perhaps we will imitate the behaviour of teenagers who run out of credit on their mobiles : take a photo of a hand-written message and send it across the room by bluetooth. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
