roachboy

there's been alot of sturm und drang about the neoliberalism hits the wall show or the derivative market melty show--call it as you like---but i am wondering how we collectively are experiencing it--what links are there between your normal everyday course of things and the Big Show? are folk talking about it? what kind of stuff are they saying?

obviously this will vary by which choice(s) you make when you think "normal everyday course of things"---where you are, what you expect, what you find, what stands out.

i ask this because here in tiny town, the ridiculous but lovely seaside place i currently call home-like, the disconnect between tv reality and 3-d reality seems almost total. i decided that the derivative market-melt sounded like a sandwich, so that meant that going to a local resto was now fieldwork--this is a pretty democrat-heavy little eastern massachusetts town, so i kinda expected to find people talking about this---but instead, conversations centered on the red sox and little things and it was like being out to eat or have a beer was as much a vacation from the Big Show as from the usual things. so work seems more where these conversations come up--but there it is mostly about anxiety over the election---which seems to be linked to the Show, but not necessarily as directly as one would expect. this work thing is a publisher, so folk seem to read...

so i dunno: there's a sense that this is at once very far away and separated from folks lives, so it's like watching something happen in an alternate dimension.

but how is this playing around where you are?

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