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Abstract Expressionism / Morris Graves/ Hibernation

Friday morning and the coffee just doesn’t seem to be working that well.

Keith sent out his usual e-mail today.  I think that it is funny that brings up Gemini and Gopher as a way to get around the bloat of the internet.  A worthy goal.  But it also brings up a way of looking at things that JMG brought up a long while ago.  

Look, when it is raining soup, I always feel that the best way to go about it is to carry around as big a bowl as possible.  Catch the wretched excess and enjoy.  But don’t get dependent.  Have a plan in place to back away from the resource if it gets scarce and still do what you want to do.  

Being a long term correspondent with a couple of as-famous-as-you-can-be collapsniks (it is really hard for collapsniks to get any kind of serious traction by mentioning collapse), I have always enjoyed the sheer wretched excess of what the internet has done.  Truthfully, the internet is a cancer, but man it is great.  It really is kinda sad that it has no chance of lasting for more than twenty some odd years for most of the world.

I think that there is a pretty fair chance that there will be an alternative starting to come out of the fringes.  I think that at first it will be very parasitic on the actual structure of the current internet.  If it is going to survive, it will have to figure out a way to suck out of the internet what it can in order to come up with (or to regress to) the technology needed.

I am thinking that the process will take longer than I have on this planet.  But the process will be pretty inexorable, despite the protestations of the rich that just deploying even more of the same will solve all of our problems.

Nope, like all old men, I am probably more comfortable with older technology.  Now, I can handle the new stuff, but I can’t really say that it is an improvement.  I am writing this on a 10-year old X-220 that seems to do everything that I ever needed.  Truthfully, I would be just as happy posting on a BBS.  

The ways to the future don’t have to be just like the past, but using things that worked before and improving them seems to be a good idea.