the duchy of hetkettle trophish

it’s been about a month. the massive dose of pop culture is almost all injected. i feel as though reading things, talking about things, is a little less revolting.

the most important thing to remember is that i can’t possibly fuck things up as much as the big players have. i’m looking for answers.

the economy of the future will be dominated by industries in micro-electronics, telecommunications, robotics, and biotechnology — not to mention new fields that haven’t even been predicted.

“nobody knows exactly what our economy will look like in the year 2030. but there is one thing we know for certain,” says [NEA president reg] weaver. “if we want our children to succeed and prosper in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, we must support and strengthen our public education system.”

we always need to know things; an economy is always based on knowledge; but i wouldn’t pick the old knowledge economy chestnut from ten, or ten thousand, phrases, to describe what’s coming our way.

•ps. another article, not online, touts a maryland program teaching kids important homeland securi-trough industry skills. do you find this frustrating? i find this very very frustrating. DC-local schools building a cottage trade in horseshit.

•pps. all of the above skills have limited application in difficult times.

On the other hand we have white people who hate other white people on the grounds that they hate black people. But that latter hatred accuses many wrongfully, and it serves as a convenient coverup for the racism that is all around us. The reason why it matters is because middle-class people despising poor people becomes your basic class war, and the ongoing insults seem to have been at least part of what has weakened the environmental movement in particular and progressive politics in general.

why i’m doing this

when very few understand
or seem to gain

i’m not an elitist
pretty much the opposite
and all this exposure
causes me pain

i think i’m more worried
that this world’s a fantasy
than that it will shrivel
for lack of good rain

a lot of the dystopias are physically impossible.