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Modernismo / Anita Malfatti/ O Farol

I have been working on my writing, over 10,000 words now so I am pretty happy, I even have the end stage complete for this particular piece, which is farther along than I have been yet. 

Part of the book is based around the idea of de-industrialization and how it would happen. Of course, I am tying it together in the weirdo-Lovecraft-turned-on-its-head genre that JMG put together.  So that makes it double weird and probably not marketable, but the worst that can happen if I finish it is that the evil empire will publish it for me and I can move on.  I will proudly join the ranks of the "self-published" because if anyone gives me any shit, I can respond with "What have you wrote asshole?"  If the person actually has published something, well, then he is a double asshole for giving me shit for trying.

Now, when most folks see this word, shockwaves of horror bounce around inside their heads, because they really can't imagine that their lives will be different.  Well folks, your lives will be different.  What I am trying to do in this book (s?) is to outline and flesh out how that works.

I figure that if you look at five year blocks and analyze each blocks end state, you will start to see reversion to previous levels of affluence and technology.  In the world envisioned by JMG the reversion is 2018-2038 with the 2038 endpoint seeming to be at the 1900 CE level of technology.  So JMG has created a universe where technological reversion is approximately one decade reversion every year-and-a-half.  This is where I will differ.  I am thinking that rate of decline is pretty precipitous if you look at it as an average. 

But the facts on the ground will probably be different.  I am wondering how the idea of "the future is here, it just isn't evenly distributed" plays out here?  Much to ponder.