Someday all this mess will make me laugh, I can’t wait, I can’t wait.
"It’s disorienting to spend a lifetime hearing the praises of consuming less — and then, with the economic collapse, being forced to do so. (…) We’ve finally spiked over the edge of the chart — we’re at the place we couldn’t see in social studies classes, when late 20th-century trends like population and raw material consumption and pension indexes were extrapolated along the x- and y- axes into infinity. In my mind we were never really in the future until we hit that edge — and now we have — and because of this, everything we sense in 2009 is going to be new, but that’s what the future was always supposed to be about."via NYTimes
2009/03/29 - 11:42 AM