Just finished reading Nomi Prins piece that I think Don posted here. It was great criticism.
It occurs to me that I'm probably not alone in feeling that my thinking about the issues that trouble us here is a little passive. I've got several shelves of books including Prins' and EJ's and a host of others. Many of them are half read or at least half digested. Regardless I have an uncomfortable feeling of being a bit un-balanced (think fiddler crab): lots of thought about abstract issues, lots of cheap-seats banter, and absolutely no political involvement.
I'm not complaining about this. One of the great virtues of this site is it's "non-aligned" character. I also think it benefits from it's implicit focus on the individual's concerns in the context of a very complex web (read clusterf#%*) of experience running from, for instance, our particular historical experience of the Dollar Standard in its later years, to out-sourcing, FIRE and peak-cheap-oil etc. I know it was alarm about my family's well-being that got me started thinking about history and economics and, specifically, our own peculiar moment, so it's the right place to start to my mind. (Think O2 masks and aircraft emergency procedures. I.e.: get the mask on yourself first, then your children.)
But once you are breathing freely, your family is secure (sort of), what do you do? I'm kind of unhappy that I don't have a positive set of prescriptions to present to even myself after all this reading and thinking.
Anyone else feeling like this?
It occurs to me that I'm probably not alone in feeling that my thinking about the issues that trouble us here is a little passive. I've got several shelves of books including Prins' and EJ's and a host of others. Many of them are half read or at least half digested. Regardless I have an uncomfortable feeling of being a bit un-balanced (think fiddler crab): lots of thought about abstract issues, lots of cheap-seats banter, and absolutely no political involvement.
I'm not complaining about this. One of the great virtues of this site is it's "non-aligned" character. I also think it benefits from it's implicit focus on the individual's concerns in the context of a very complex web (read clusterf#%*) of experience running from, for instance, our particular historical experience of the Dollar Standard in its later years, to out-sourcing, FIRE and peak-cheap-oil etc. I know it was alarm about my family's well-being that got me started thinking about history and economics and, specifically, our own peculiar moment, so it's the right place to start to my mind. (Think O2 masks and aircraft emergency procedures. I.e.: get the mask on yourself first, then your children.)
But once you are breathing freely, your family is secure (sort of), what do you do? I'm kind of unhappy that I don't have a positive set of prescriptions to present to even myself after all this reading and thinking.
Anyone else feeling like this?
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