Comments on: Positive Effects of Coming Economic Depression!

By: [New] Great Depression Art « positivenegative

[New] Great Depression Art « positivenegative — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:01:03 +0000

[...] Tagged community, New Deal, public art, temporal So I was reading a list of the up-shots of the death spiral that our nation’s economy ran headlong into, and found three that really caught my attention: [...]

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:26:40 +0000

I always liked the guy in the movie “Brazil” played by …what’s that actors name that played Jake Lamotta in “Raging Bull” and the Dad in “meet the parents”?

Well anyway in “Brazil” he was this undercover fix it dude, kind of like a Hacker. Part of some underground network. While society still has some semblence of normality and the illusion of personal autonomy and freedom he would be considered a criminal. But if things get a lot worse and more Orwellian, being an underground subversive type Hacker Dude, seems like it would be more of a smart choice.

I mean I think it will be a great thing when people have to choose to be a total rebel just to maintain their humanity.

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:56:57 +0000

Ooh, that’s a good one!

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:46:39 +0000

11. The signifigance of your choices become a lot more obvious.

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:45:18 +0000

This cracks me up

http://sadcelebs.com/2008/09/16/positi...ffects-of-coming-economic-depression/

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:22:30 +0000

plenty of depression and anxiety and other â€œcivilizedâ€ epidemics people are medicated up the wazoo for, since theyâ€™re mostly a product (in my humble opinion) of living life like a disembodied head and not giving the body enough to do.

Yeah, I was thinking a good positive side effect will be that people will finally run out of the “medicines” they think they need to get by, and they’ll realize these chemicals have been doing nothing but numbing them for years.

And: the return of â€œuncertified,â€ itenerant teachers, apprenticeship and the art of story telling at home and in small groups.

Pangea University!

Also: http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008...the-role-of-folk-music-in-the-future/

I will miss the Choco-Taco immensely, though.

Yeah, I’ve been on an ice cream sandwich kick lately, and have been enjoying them all the more because of all the things wrong with them about how they came into existence and somehow made it here to me.

By: cadeveo

cadeveo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:06:38 +0000

People will have to be more awake and in their bodies in their day-to-day lives. That can only be for the good. Sure, lots more actual fight or flight situations, lot more struggle, but that should put the kabosh on plenty of depression and anxiety and other “civilized” epidemics people are medicated up the wazoo for, since they’re mostly a product (in my humble opinion) of living life like a disembodied head and not giving the body enough to do.

Also: it will free people up to rediscover their own in-built capacity for ingenuity.

And: the return of “uncertified,” itenerant teachers, apprenticeship and the art of story telling at home and in small groups.

It will also lead to the conjuration of new folk heroes, new myths and new (but probably really old, just-re-discovered) avatars of the divine.

I will miss the Choco-Taco immensely, though.

By: OmegaSupreme

OmegaSupreme — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:31:01 +0000

I can punch my soon to be former boss in the face ? Only joking I don’t advocate violence but damn, he’s a prick.

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:00:23 +0000

Very “good” (I should probably say “accurate” instead) predictions here I think

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/gl...errillas/2008/09/financial-meltd.html