Damn where did the time - and all the money - go?
It only feels like a couple of weeks since I last blogged but the timeline doesn't lie apparently.
Seems like yesterday we were digesting the 16 day Chinese feast of the lucky 08-08-08 Beijing Olympics, reaching for the collective Alka Seltzer... Don't the Chinese have a curse "May you live in interesting times"...
I know schadenfreude is wrong and thanks to globalization we may all be boiling stones for soup soon but I'm sorry there is something delicious about watching Shrub at the wheel of the car crash of the American Empire... Not that he can really be blamed for the economic disaster - he's too dumb to be responsible for this catastrophe ... but his hero Ronald Reagan certainly is: (I actually have a theory that W is the love child of Reagan and Bonzo The Chimp: there's a definite resemblance there: but I digress). Actually it's not even fair to blame just Reagan - who also wasn't the sharpest knife in the draw. It was Maggie Thatcher who first signed on as head cheerleader for Milton Friedman's 'economic rationalism' - "Let The Markets Have Their Way", 'Deregulation is the only way' ad infinitum ad nauseum etc etc. Reagan's dead and Maggie's completely gaga now so we don't even get the satisfaction of rubbing their faces in the faeces we are in now.
And whilst any thinking person can't cheer for totalitarianism of any stripe, the unseemly way the West danced on the grave of the Soviet Union and then left the Russian people to the 'shock treatment' of market forces : i.e gangsters stole everything they could and pimped everything else our triumphalism looks decidedly premature and plain dumb.
Who knows? Perhaps this is just the disaster the planet needs to survive us. Because the disconnect between endless consumerism and concerns about the environment really needed to be put down, hard and fast.
Interesting times indeed.
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