Hunker down folks

[degringolade]

Now for the hard part that all have seen coming but everyone did there level best to ignore.

I try to keep my perusal of the news down. Lately I have been failing. There is too much happening and there seems to be no way to make the supposed "analyses" correlate and come up with a decent explanation. Truthfully, things are chaotic. There are too many people pulling too many different ways to allow a movement toward a nominally controlled scenario. Put succinctly, it looks to be that we are fucked and we are going to have to scramble.

Now, when I say that we are fucked, this doesn't mean zombie hordes. Truth be told, I think that it is going to be the return to inconvenience. But convenience is exactly what our culture has been spending its capital on creating and the current system is built around the exchange of symbols instead of the exchange of goods. I am as guilty as anyone. My groceries get delivered by folks who are using their gas (I think that wally world rents uber drivers) to deliver my food, as gas is going to do nothing but get more expensive.

I drew the five of cups today. I think that Crowley may well have hit the nail on the head with this one. The refers to it as "the end of pleasure". I think that my spending and relative luxury is going to need to be left behind while the world sorts itself out over the next year or two. So this month is going to be stripping things down to the bone and living on a shoestring. It won't be all that bad, I need to diet anyway and I have a lot to do on some mental projects that only require my current stash of books, walks are always cheap.

But there are a lot more folks out there who won't see it this way. They will see their loss of even small conveniences as something world shaking and they will act out. I am keeping an eye out for this sort of thing and will make certain that I am getting distance between me and that mess.