The Wire Snowman & the Dark Abyss

The Wire Snowman & the Dark Abyss
EAGLE VALLEY, Oregon, South Wallowas [click photo for next . . . ]
On the road in the American Northwest.

. . . A Nighttime Meditation on the Dark Abyss
of Runaway Economies . . .

Symbols refer to meaning

as currency refers to value:—

only in a highly abstract and intellectual way.

The danger with such abstraction

is that it tends to wander off on its own,

losing its basis in actual earth-bound fact.

Eventually,

symbols may refer only to other symbols,

and meaning then becomes

merely a systemic property

inferred from the symbols themselves;

Likewise,

value may no longer be grounded

in natural richness,

but simply in more currency itself.

Before we realize it,

it will seem logical

to say that life began with a bang,

and markets must end with:—

a crash.

HOUSE ON FIRE & OCCUPY—a radically simple
view of a complex movement

RIGHT OF THE LINE
& OUT OF CONTROL—
the runaway economies
of systemic
imbalance

25 DECADES OF
TREE-TIME &
When Growth is
'False Compare'

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