I am a fatalist, or better said, a determinist. If you buy a Hegelian development scenario, then, as the future which has been described many times over, is to be believed, thenthe outcome is perhaps almost inescapable.
I am not as optimistic as some who categorically present an absolute need to escape planet earth
within a thousand years. Reminds me of the saying,
'Live your life as if it was the first day of our life, and the last.
As the virtual world closes us in into an imaginary landscape, in stead of escaping, we must act now to create much more utility in the world.
Specifically, we simply must bring back style at any cost, even impoverishment can be done with style.
Art needs to return in a big way into the ghettos, the poorer the more stylish, the more significant it becomes. Now is the time for the extreme liberal 1%
, instead of demonstrating for another form of escapism -session, as that motion was recently financed by a home grown Billionaire in California, they should grab the bull by it’s horns, and with other
privileged people, work within the system statewide,
to counter Federal moves to further disenfranchise.
That would be a good beginning. And perhaps become a model for other states, after all California is one of the most, if not The most significant state in the union,