Observations

This is where I will post my thoughts on things other than upcoming performances of my music.

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How long do we give it before the present state of things implodes? How long until retailers realize that big box stores are not compatible with the demands and conveniences of 21st century life? I believe that in the coming years, we will witness a genuine retraction of many of the forces and cultural developments that have arisen in the recent past. The latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st in America were characterized by a somewhat destructive optimism. I say destructive, because the optimism was not deployed to improve the world, but to maximize the profit margins and to “escape” urban areas (and eventually suburban areas) which gradually (gaspshockhorror) became populated by larger numbers of minorities and other property value killers. Remember, it goes back to the property value, which ties into the taxation, which spills into the schools, etc.

Maybe people will realize that they don’t have to have vehicular monstrosities (that one appears to be reaching its logical conclusion), or that the image-obsessed nonsense that leads people to fritter away countless dollars on luxuries to make themselves feel more worthwhile are already to be discarded as are the obscene rituals of the past. Life needs to be a bit more necessitarian, focused on the essentials. There need to be fewer jobs that exist solely for the sake of selling things. There need to be fewer jobs that exist solely to “streamline” the bureaucratic paperjam that runs rampant from the highest offices of governance through the lowest independent shopkeeper. Life is more than stupid debates about politics and religion.

There will be a change. A redefinition in simplicity. I hope.