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2559. Musical chairs
We are all sitting on chairs in a circle. The music starts and we are to get up and move in a circle around the circle of chairs. As we move, some of the chairs, as we were told they would, are removed from the circle. So we have N humber of people and N-a few chairs. We are all looking for how to sit on the nearest chair when the music stops.
That’s where we are now and I can feel it in the increased frequency and nervousness of about everything. Most specifically the Internet. Writing is more compassionate, angrier, and just basically more. The reality is we have too many people and too few chairs. Food, energy, land, jobs. Too few too little. But there is no methodical way to cut because we would never get to an agreement. Cuts mean stopping something while almost everyone is trying to figure out how to hold on.
As one retired high level government lawyer said we have not one leader with public recognition and moral authority coming forth and telling it as it is. Not one. In government, business nor media. Why don’t our ex-presidents, for example, come together. Are they even talking together?
youtube.com/watch?v=aQIL4kGANt0 last few minutes.
Meanwhile India is the future.
India bans wheat exports to try and tame prices as a scorching heatwave curtailed output
We are entering crunch time. Everyone must chose to help or hinder, feed someone or guns. Chose your project. Writing feels increasingly irrelevant, maybe irreverent. But probably important. Now, back to Gardenworld……