Here’s a quick idea mash-up: CSA, community-supported agriculture (I didn’t know what it stood for either, originally), it’s like you have a farm and you sell your neighbors regular shares of your crop for a recurring “subscription”-style fee. Within any large-scale return to regionalism on an agribusiness level, you’re necessarily going to see an upshoot in agrarian cultural practices and themes and a dramatic rise in the importance of local and regional entertainment and media. So you have your little farm where you sell your vegetables every week and you attach to it a concert venue/theatre house/event space, and you have all your hippy neo bohemian web artisan friends come and hang out and make stuff and then sell it on the internet as “authentic local culture.” Kids in the Northwest are sort of doing it. No farm though. Nice kids, it seems. And then there’s Damanhur.

Imagine the whole world is an internet, each locality a node in the network, and UPS is the Spacing Guild. Sorry to take this out on you, but they didn’t have a copy of Snowcrash or of Neuromancer at my local bookshop. What can I say. It’s not my fault.