May 27, 2012

Car Racing and Economy

Good morning - the spectacle known as the Indianapolis 500 is upon us in 15 minutes - or two hours if you actually want to watch the race instead of the talking heads.  I would prefer the Talking Heads, but they were all arrested for Burning Down the House.  I agree with Raz that this was likely a government set-up and that anyone even thinking of a terror activity automatically acquires infiltrators from the alphabet agencies.

Meanwhile, the drums beat ... Iran ... Iran ... Yemen ... Iran.  This Memorial Day is about picnics and sports and another day off of work.  Holidays are excuses to sell more stuff and if we banish Hallmark, then maybe some of them will disappear.  I have been watching the Facebook IPO game, mostly because i cannot avoid it.  There must be a way to make real money, can we open our own branches of the Federal Reserve?  Or maybe we could make monopoly money into legal tender.

Such is life.  I am reading a very old book called Acres of Diamonds by a preacher who chastised people for being poor.  He professes that God did not link piety to wealth and the rich people can spread the benefit of the book because they have more latitude of action than poor people.  Profit is healthy and if you don't mark-up the goods that you sell sufficiently, then you are immorally depriving yourself of the greater good.  

So we shop at Costco, or Wally Whirled or some other store that offers cheap prices by browbeating producers and creating deals by force.  The consumer economy requires built in obsolescence, so that we can recreate again what has been created many times - nothing built durable to last.  Of course, in this country, just nothing built.  It has been outsourced and off-shored.

The time is ripe for a new world order, but economics seems to be in the way.  The frequency of this current system is vibrating way howdt of control, the animals, the flowers and the rocks all remain steady in their approach to the change.  If you have access to running water and clean air, you will be alright in the long term.  I like to walk around in places where i can smell the flowers and look at the rocks under the magnifying glass.

There are many worlds out here at different scales of activity that the one we currently believe in.  When i look up at the stars at night, i see the nuclei of cells through invisible cell walls, the relationship of as above, so below seems to hold.  I remember walking on a beach once and noticing that the swirls created by the flow of the waves looked exactly like my fingerprint.  Everything repeats itself, the form may change, but the flow is constant.

But time is not constant, nor consistent.  There is some question in my mind whether the history that we remember was constructed for us and driven in with edjercashun.  The stories seem to differ depending on the local spin, but every story line has a major flood and a wrathful lord.  I refuse to be scared - we are all divine in our own way.  So off i go to watch the crashes caused by three hours of left turns only.  Enjoy the races - Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 - and understand that a marketing based culture with no production has a limited shelf life.

Namaste'  doc

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