"...spin"

"Now is a time of want, and poverty for many. One bears such with all the dignity one can. The thing is to remember you are the same person you were before unfortunate times over took you."

There's a Hallmark post card or something in that...something with a sad puppy or kittens perhaps.

Btw I note that folks are selling their art on the streets, and public transit. I saw a gent pushing his novel on the No. 3 train. You could even pay him by card. Amazing what the tech can do these days. No need for book stores that won't carry your stuff or publishers that ignore you.

This has possibilities. Whole new economies are being born in front of us.

Speaking of same my feast or famine economy continues. Mirroring our national economy almost exactly. As when I was houseless I'm keeping a journal on the effects of social traumas. Being among the hidden hungry my latest adventure after my fall from the boredom of the middle class.

I will come through this as I came through houseless-ness, and return once more to the realms of bored middle class ennui.

Perhaps I'll take up cocaine again as Holmes did to cure this curious state of civilized life. The sense that there's really nothing worth doing. This is why there's more porn violence, and celeb trivia on the 'net than anything else.

One would have thought that the public having access to near the sum of human knowledge. This at their finger tips at any time or any place. That eventually we'd have a vast population of thoughtful academics scholars mystics, and hipster-near-do-wells. Instead a billions strong hoard of lazy annoyed superstitious bigots.

We didn't see this coming.

This makes me imagine that if we even did manage to achieve social, and economic justice in this republic the results would be equally unexpected. Baffling mysterious, and downright weird.
Unimagined consequences is the story of humanity.
Writing fiction science or secular is near impossible. Years ago I stopped reading various titles of S/F graphic novels. This because social/science realities kept catching up with them. In just a very few years they all looked seriously out of date, and naïve.

But then I could be wrong.

As that also unexpected character wrote back when he was interesting.
This from the "The times they are a-changing"

"...and don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin..."

This is why I'm such a fan of history. The human species is nothing if not full of dramatic demented entertaining, and even transcendent surprises.

I guess we'll just have to keep working at it, and stay tuned.