Metaneos

 It's growing and growing, the ongoing crisis. Getting a little worse everyday. What'll happen next is not known but can be guessed at. Financial corporations are doing very well, but real companies—the ones that deal in making things, growing food—they're losing money. This gap, this chasm, seems to be becoming something the whole of the American economy could fall into. It's a schisming. It's reflected in its people, who are set apart on two sides: those who wish to bring an end to police violence, especially against Black people; and those who support the police actions. However, this is simplistic, and perhaps not altogether quite what is the problem. It is history abutting with legacy. The legacy of America is both slavery and genocide. The wealth and power of the former slave-owning states has never again been witnessed, and there is some sort of longing for a return if not to the specifics of that era than at least to the circumstances. There is longing for t...

CBC News There's probably lots not being shared here. When I first learned of this project, I couldn't help wondering, "Why?" From everything I've read about the Tar Sands, I've come to conclude there's probably not a whole lot of money left to be made there. The Canadian government's been subsidizing Alberta for tens of billions of dollars for the past decade now. Not a whole will probably change in the near future, except for the continual inflation of costs to keep Alberta going. When it's all said and done, the Tar Sands will probably have drained 100's of billions of dollars out of Canadian taxpayers' hands, and there'll be nothing to show for it in government treasuries. I thought for certain this development was one last ditch effort to drain some more free capital out of the Albertan and Canadian treasuries, but for the company to wind down the project at this point speaks that Canada and Alberta both wanted the other to ba...

The Overton Window has shifted. The UK may lament the demise of Corbyn's campaign, but the end result of that election saw the so-called Centrists fall out of power in Labour. The same is happening in the USA. What these so-called Centrists have for so long disguised has been revealed to be meaningless. Mere Triangulation to carry-on with Reagonite-style politics of the dismantling of government, and hence democracy. However, their hollowing out of government also saw them hollowing out their mechanisms for interacting with people outside their comfort zone. These people, these elites, and their sycophants, they lost complete touch with a great majority of people. The Occupy Movement was not a one-off movement. It was a bellwether, a harbinger. And as this movement grows—and it'll grow exponentially from now one—people who do not adjust are going to be run down. The momentum of this movement has been building for 40 years. Like a flood. It'll carry off everyone, even ...

With the results of the Nevada Caucus, it may be premature, but it also may be safe to state: Triangulation is dead as a political tool. I'd been commenting here and there that there would be a wave overcoming Reaganism, that it would come in all of a sudden rather than forecast itself. In hindsight, it probably did forecast itself, but as with all tsunami's, the signs one were coming were only recognizable to those who have been waiting on it.

Personally speaking, Trump's always been a bit of a joke presidency. He's terrible. Awful. A throwback to the days of Jim Crow, but there's an insincerity in his manner that suggests he's only doing it because the people around him want it done. He doesn't care, much like the two prior presidents, whose policies opened up the opportunity for a huckster to even consider running for the presidency. I'm not even going to get into the racialized border politics of Trump. ICE, and all that. It's awful, but it was resultant of the presidents who came before. Obama, and Bush were also bad. Not as bad as Trump, but many of the in-place policies were likely to lead to this point in time. Trump's brutal border policies could not have happened if not for Obama out-doing Bush, and Bush out-policing Clinton, and Clinton... Well, illegal border crossings weren't regular back in the 80's when Mexico was still independent of the Canada-US FTA. Well, to be fa...

Thank goodness. Stupid political theatre. From day one, it was obvious from the start this would be the result. It was just a stupid political ploy that ended utterly anti-climatically. All it was really good for was dividing Democrats. Dividing the neo-liberals and the insurgent populists. Well, those two camps were divided from the beginning, but the impeachment mess was an opportunity for the neo-liberals to beat up on the upstarts. But, the upstarts have grown more in numbers, so this neo-liberal ploy wasn't a major success. It looks like either the coming election cycle or the following one, and the upstarts should begin taking full control of the Democratic Party's election machines. If Sanders doesn't manage to take control of the party finances this go around, I presume the next primary cycle, a populist will win out.

I'm greatly dissatisfied. I cannot envision a future that is better. What has transpired since the 1980's in terms of the economy has soured me upon what is to come. What is to come? A shitstorm. A nomadic lifestyle of subsistence for a great many. Possibly many here in the Western world included. I recently read Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men , a novella of cynicism and alienation. You want the future? Read that novel. That's the future for those without roots, who need to live payday to payday. How about solutions? Not a whole lot. For one thing, Western governments need tearing down, and being rebuilt. That's a good solution. Political parties need insurgents who'll toss out onto their ear all the neo-liberals and neo-conservatives that've lead the world to this precipice of climate change disaster. Businesses need to dismantled. The economy needs rebuilding. We need a new economy. I observe the Canadian state, and it's failing. It's selling ...

It's late. It's early. I'm writing this at one in the morning. I should probably be getting some sleep, but my mind's racing. I'm in my final year of undergraduate studies, and I honestly need to maintain energy for the papers that are to come. I have presentations. I have academic obligations. I grew up in poverty, see. Not the desperate sort though. Just the sort if I failed at any step in my life, I'd be thrown from the path I'd settled upon. I would lose all opportunity to escape working class jobs, and have to find work wherever it came. Naturally, I failed, and had to find work from wherever it came for over a decade. It feels like a lost decade. Some way or another, I found myself back in university. And where I once failed, this time, I succeeded. Tried a few things, and had some minor successes and failures. But I have a middle class future again. Hooray! But there's an oncoming storm called Climate Change that's set to mess up m...