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cyn---to be clear about it, in my everyday life i live more or less the same way as you outline. i don't do it because i find it an expression of principle (i think about other things that way, more food-related usually)...
when i talk about the small frame, its mostly with reference to the debt market meltdown, its extent and implications.
the major agreement is that the underlying cause of this wreckage is the american reliance on debt. living within our individual means is one response to what might be coming. the system features are different---i think the main divergence we have comes down to the fact that i don't link individual actions and the system of global capital flows logically, dont use one as a metaphor for the other. i get confused when folk do it, and apparently misread the motivations behind it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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