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sooner or later you'd think that the nightly televisual infotainment would stop treating the stock market as if its activities reflected the general state of the economy. that started under nixon--around 1972---which is strange because it was about the same time that the series of moves were being implemented that severed the movements of capital from that of the real economy--the ideological component came in the early 1980s--it wasn't inevitable--but by that point, the separation was pretty radical.
it are deep dysfunctions that have to be addressed--people keep acting as though this transition or crisis is a blip in the normal run of things--but they're wrong. in saner parts of the world, there's a pretty broad recognition of the fact that the collapse of the neoliberal order has opened onto a need for very basic changes, basic reorientations not only in what folk do and how they do about it but also in the ways they think about them and their relation to the broader systems they're part of and relations between or amongst systems. there is no option but to deal with these basic issues.
it's strange reading the intellectual paralysis that seems to be abroad in this microcosm, which repeats in a way some of the intellectual paralysis that's out there in 3-d america. i think it's a function of living in an authoritarian ideological context. that is not changing. if anything prevents a collective change of direction, it'll be that the ideological relay system is now entirely out of phase with what is required. there's nothing inevitable about a positive outcome to any of this....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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