What Did You Expect

 

 Symbolism / Albert Pinkham Ryder/ Landscape

Gotta gut through the day and then off for five days.  Good enough for now.

JMG kicked out another weekly post yesterday.  Now, a lot of folks might see this as a gloom and doom kinda post, but it really isn’t.  Most of us with any sense at all know that the party was winding down.  It isn’t the end of the world.  It is just the end of our erstwhile affluence.  

Now, lets get down to brass tacks.  We have come to expect affluence.  It is our God-given right.  We judge people for their lack of the same and exalt those who have more of it than we do.  It is the measuring stick of Americans.  Now this isn’t letting other folks off the hook, but we got it bad.  

What The Limits of Growth, JMG and other bloggers, and what I refer to as the doomosphere are telling us is that the party is coming to an end.  We are coming to the end of disposable razors and short-lived vanity cellphones and wandering back toward the old days of:

Fix it up

Wear it out

Make it do

Or do without

Old cookbooks will be coming back and pampered princesses of all genders and ages will need to shut down their YouTube cooking channels and get back to work.  Recreation will become more local.  Roads will become quieter as gas gets expensive.  

Jobs will pay less.  

We are on our way back (despite all the protestations of Hillary).  But it really isn’t going back.  It is just not following the same path as we were on.  

In the words of the redheaded paid liar at the White House “we’ll circle back to that”.  What I feel that folks are talking about is how to get back to sustainability.  What you hear in that shrieking is that folks don’t want to give up things that they have.