Oh, But I Haven't Fogotten

[darinbradley]

Maybe you did. Maybe it seems like things have quieted down. Let me remind you that there is a real fear of the stock market shedding another 40% in March. I still hold that between summer and fall of this year, we are going to see An Event. I could be wrong-it could come sooner.

FDIC shutters four banks in one day (Is the non-capitalization of

Comments

[fizzylizzy333]

Jesus! Will print the firewood chart for safekeeping.

[darinbradley]

I know, right! What freaks me out is the graffiti messaging (earlier post).

[darinbradley]

Is the failure of the left that you're mentioning a result of the left being in power, or do you think that it's a general leftist trend? As in, the right would be mollifying class division, all other things being equal?

Just curious. You mentioned that clinging to the accoutrement of the old order is part of the problem, which I can understand. Are you hoping (in an ideal situation, of course) to move toward something more self-sustaining?

Re: Failure of the Left

[darinbradley]

Well, I don't think its defeatism. At this point, it's difficult to be anything but realist-most worst-case scenario mentalities are playing out morning-by-morning as we shlub along to our workaday jobs. Ideologically and methodologically.

What you're pointing to is what I've seen mirrored by other thinkers, writers, and analysts-namely that our entire financial and political system has finally dry-rotted through and through, and that what (if anything) awaits us on the other side of this is a fundamental re-ordering of life, politics, and trade.

And frankly, while I feel for those who are the first-wave to reap the painful harvest of the generations of error that have led us here, I can't say that I don't wonder if something like this is precisely what needs to happen . . .

. . . I say from my heated home, typing on my laptop, while preparing to go pull a cold beer out of the fridge. I need to be re-ordered, too.

[selfavowedgeek]

Yep, definitely starting that home garden project this spring and summer.

Glad I got plenty of ammo, too, until everyone *else* starts the deer and turkey hunting 'pocalypse style . . .

Speaking of ammo, since most folks 'round henh tend to buy factory ammo at Wal-Mart, well, guess what? Local Wal-Marts are having trouble keeping inventory. Folks are buying it out like crazy. Even guys I know who handload say they're pinched because of brass prices having gone up.

[darinbradley]

Yep, ammo is short everywhere, largely because many gun owners are panicking that the over-11 automatic magazine ban is on its way through.

Similarly, though, communications equipment, flashlights, and other sundries are also running out. People are preparing for something . . .