The Red Sox won the World Series; beautiful. This has to mean something...the world is changing, the threads of power shifting. The Oversoul yawns, turns over in its sleep, and this dimension quakes in a moment of revelation.
So, it's time for a recap on the things that are going to fuck up our world in the next 30 years:
1. Baby-boomers: I know, I know, let's blame everything on them. But seriously, when these folks retire it's going to cause a) a labor shortage; seriously, they've done studies. But worse b) deficits; they'll get worse when we stop getting taxes off of 'em. The burden will be transfered, of course, to our backs, Gens X & Y. Good thing we're so shiftless...
2. Oil: We've already used up more than half of the world supply, and what's left is harder & thus more expensive to pump. There's a reason gas is more than $2 these days, and it's got nothing to do with OPEC or Iraq. Sure, it'll go down again...for a little while. I loves me my bus pass.
3. The environment: I don't recall the name of the organization, but their projections were that if we didn't stop treating Earth like a ten dollar whore, sometime between 2000 and 2020 there'd be no turning back. Now, I don't think the ecosystem is quite as fragile as many people, but look at the history of this planet. Extinction events occur all the time; no, it won't whipe out the human race, but it's going to make life a lot harder and a lot less fun. And it may already be too late.
These items have been weighing my mind lately, thus the slightly pensive attitude. They scare the shit out of me, because these are big issues. Bigger than who gets what tax breaks, or to which particular Arab nation Emperor Bush sends the drafted poor in order that they kill other poor people, or just how fascist his second term might be. Sure, those things scare me too. But we can do something about them, if not on Tuesday then in four years (or sooner...the r word, anyone?). But these other things...they have the stink of inevitability. They will happen.
As a great poet sang, "These ain't the times to be alone, cliche the end is near." And thus am I all the more grateful to have her.
50 hours since I've seen her; about 9 until I see her again.
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing.
my whimper will be a
curse, incepted in love, against
all machinations--the machineries of
claw and stone. our better natures are
chimeric, ill-adapted, awkward in
hairless discord - what have we
pledged them through parched,
pinched nights? centuries since
rome killed odin all-father; who
now can face the dusky wolf,
turn cheek to the spittle of
inexorable winters? regret and
guilt stalk the glades of fear; else
where, the riders mount. a
child hides her heart under
rubble, while at the loom
shiva smiles rabidly. in the
end survival will pale beside
the simplest solace:
you were, and were
loved.
crg, 10/04
Update: I am nicotine's bitch. This needs work.
But for how, the d_P is getting the fy out of here.
Catch y'all soon.
Mmm, rain...
So, it's time for a recap on the things that are going to fuck up our world in the next 30 years:
1. Baby-boomers: I know, I know, let's blame everything on them. But seriously, when these folks retire it's going to cause a) a labor shortage; seriously, they've done studies. But worse b) deficits; they'll get worse when we stop getting taxes off of 'em. The burden will be transfered, of course, to our backs, Gens X & Y. Good thing we're so shiftless...
2. Oil: We've already used up more than half of the world supply, and what's left is harder & thus more expensive to pump. There's a reason gas is more than $2 these days, and it's got nothing to do with OPEC or Iraq. Sure, it'll go down again...for a little while. I loves me my bus pass.
3. The environment: I don't recall the name of the organization, but their projections were that if we didn't stop treating Earth like a ten dollar whore, sometime between 2000 and 2020 there'd be no turning back. Now, I don't think the ecosystem is quite as fragile as many people, but look at the history of this planet. Extinction events occur all the time; no, it won't whipe out the human race, but it's going to make life a lot harder and a lot less fun. And it may already be too late.
These items have been weighing my mind lately, thus the slightly pensive attitude. They scare the shit out of me, because these are big issues. Bigger than who gets what tax breaks, or to which particular Arab nation Emperor Bush sends the drafted poor in order that they kill other poor people, or just how fascist his second term might be. Sure, those things scare me too. But we can do something about them, if not on Tuesday then in four years (or sooner...the r word, anyone?). But these other things...they have the stink of inevitability. They will happen.
As a great poet sang, "These ain't the times to be alone, cliche the end is near." And thus am I all the more grateful to have her.
50 hours since I've seen her; about 9 until I see her again.
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing.
my whimper will be a
curse, incepted in love, against
all machinations--the machineries of
claw and stone. our better natures are
chimeric, ill-adapted, awkward in
hairless discord - what have we
pledged them through parched,
pinched nights? centuries since
rome killed odin all-father; who
now can face the dusky wolf,
turn cheek to the spittle of
inexorable winters? regret and
guilt stalk the glades of fear; else
where, the riders mount. a
child hides her heart under
rubble, while at the loom
shiva smiles rabidly. in the
end survival will pale beside
the simplest solace:
you were, and were
loved.
crg, 10/04
Update: I am nicotine's bitch. This needs work.
But for how, the d_P is getting the fy out of here.
Catch y'all soon.
Mmm, rain...
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hey give me job and I'll let you know.
no, come on now, being the anti christ I'm sure has its benefits, besides ragnarok was well before the time of geebus.
letsee, yes I think the part about the baby boomers,,
I cant wait til they retire, then I can take over a Super America and run the mother fucker into the ground.
ah, actually I might have to look into this pleasant weather outside,