What Comes Next?

This blog is about the Recession.

What I'm Reading:
Andrew Sullivan
Megan McArdle
Mutate!
The Technium
Tomorrow Museum
Warren Ellis
We Make Money Not Art
whYgenY

29th October 2009

Photo reblogged from Ekstasis

ekstasis:

Synaptic Stimuli » You cannot lose your mind, which is your ground of being. However, it is quite possible you may lose your brain.
…So what are we to do now, after the crash? It’s not like anything is radically different. Radical change is, I think, impossible in modern America. For better or worse, we’ve achieved a state where, barring absolute cataclysm, we won’t be making any fundamental changes. At least, not ones that will last for very long.
So what do we do now, in the closest thing to a post-consumer society we’re ever likely to see?

ekstasis:

Synaptic Stimuli » You cannot lose your mind, which is your ground of being. However, it is quite possible you may lose your brain.

…So what are we to do now, after the crash? It’s not like anything is radically different. Radical change is, I think, impossible in modern America. For better or worse, we’ve achieved a state where, barring absolute cataclysm, we won’t be making any fundamental changes. At least, not ones that will last for very long.

So what do we do now, in the closest thing to a post-consumer society we’re ever likely to see?

Source: synapticstimuli.com