Alienated crashwatching verse embodied crashwatching

Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance
#1

i am addicted to the internet because i enjoy reading news, views, and information on the unfolding collapse of civilization. it seems this is a common feeling, so much so that it even has it’s own word in our emerging lexicon of term; “crashwatching”. civilization is collapseing before our eyes, but when we are “watching” this crash on the internet we are not really watching it in real time, we are merely reading stories about others who are watching and PATICIPATING in it in real time in others parts of the world or we are learning about meta-symptoms, peak oil, speicies extinction, etc. a classsic case of the spewcticle passifying the spectator.

but here is my proposition. lets share stories of our experiences of where we are seeing the collapse in real time in front of our eyes, in our everyday lives.

#2

In the Cascades, Monday, I witnessed an iguana chillin…I mean…basking in the sun and when it saw me it darted off underneith a bunch of hedgerows wildly and stopped in the shadows. I tried to call it to me, ha ha, I don’t know any iguana calls so my sounds I made didn’t work, they didn’t even make it budge. I could see its eyes had locked onto my every movement. I knew it would dart off deeper into the hedge and disappear from me if I tried getting any closer, therefore, I didn’t want it to mark me as serious threat so I bounced. :wink:

#3

My finances are being sucked down the drain by not having a job!! ahH!!

#4

Ebola just broke out again… not to far from here. if that wont cause civ collapse (if it gets out) I dont know what will…

#5

I have a friend who owns land in Montana who told me some good news this week. Property values in the rockies are dropping. See, as gas gets more expensive, property farther away from civilization becomes harder to get to and so must become cheaper as an incentive for people to buy it. This goes along nicely with Jason Godeskys Opening of the Map metaphor. I just rolled into town and am too tired to find the link right now.

#6

i wonder where “here” means, if you don’t mind saying?

also, i notice that 9/11 has come and gone, what 6 times?–and nothing has been rebuilt there. think any weeds have started to come up through the cracks? :-*

#7

America. It broke out in the congo, only 250 miles from the 1995 outbreak. For those of you who dont know, Ebola kills 9 out of 10 people who get it, is spread through air, skin, secreation, fluid, anything. There is no treatment.

#8

yup, i remember reading hot zone, it packs quite a punch, the whole bleed out thing. somehow none of the outbreaks in the book wiped out human life on earth, despite somebody jumping on an airplane, but i can’t remember how or why not? what finally stopped the course of the virus’s spread?

#9

[quote=“yarrow dreamer, post:6, topic:408”][quote author=treedeer link=topic=442.msg4425#msg4425 date=1189923633]
Ebola just broke out again… not to far from here.
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also, i notice that 9/11 has come and gone, what 6 times?–and nothing has been rebuilt there. think any weeds have started to come up through the cracks? :-*[/quote]

:-* back at’cha!

#10

I usually find a few wierd things on a critter when I’m skinning one but last year I saw MANY more wierd growths on deer than in all the other years combined.

#11

Apparently, drinking copious amounts of alchohol within the first three days of contracting Ebola can treat it. I don’t know if this has been tested, but I read about a doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Africa. He drank enough that he had mild alchohol poisoning and the virus never took hold. The idea is that, since Ebola attacks the liver, having it saturated with alchohol kills the virus. I dunno, I thought that was neat…

#12

to be honest, you’d be amazed at what drinking copious amounts of alcohol can cure you of ;D

#13

california wildfires:

link

#14
california wildfires

Yep, I’m there. The fires are a ways away from me, but the sky is a hazy orange to the west and it’s occasionally snowing ash.

#15

My sister roped e into driving a truck full of bed rolls and baby formula to the stadium. Do you think we could hang out after that, Rob? It would be cool to see you again, even if your landbase is going up in flame (holy SHIT the morel hunting next spring…)

#16
My sister roped e into driving a truck full of bed rolls and baby formula to the stadium. Do you think we could hang out after that, Rob? It would be cool to see you again, even if your landbase is going up in flame (holy SHIT the morel hunting next spring....)

Hey Tony,

Cool, so you’re gonna be in the area? When and how long? It’d be cool to hang out.

#17

well, we couldn’t find a truck, but my sister has gotten UPS to ship any donations we collect for free. so I guess I jumped the gun on that one. well have to catch each other some other time. LIke I said, the morels will be RIDICULOUS, so maybe it would be worth it to come out in January-February, not that you aren’t worth it on your own :wink:

#18

The morels and I will hold you up to that. :wink:

#19

Embodied crashwatching? Easy, just pay attention to the little and not so little things around you everyday:

  • Cost of food creeping up every once in a while = stress on the transportation infrastructure, rising cost of fuel, etc…
  • Longer waits and greater cost of healthcare = lack of funding and shortage of trained MD’s and nurses…
  • Outsourcing of jobs to cheaper foreign nations = money nowadays follows the cheapest common mean, indicates a fossilization of 1st world institutes and governments, and abrogation of resources to multinational corporations, indepentant of individual countries…
    And on and on for almost any not so little system of the empire of man…
    The little everyday things of crashwatching should be just as obvious.
    -Walking down the street, notice the sidewalks and roads are repaired less and less frequently…
    -Talk to people you work with. The need for a second, even third job, just to make ends meet. Fifty years ago(a very short time period indeed) One ‘breadwinner’ was required to fund a family, and still have plenty left over for the perks of empire.
    It may sound redundant, and I don’t wish to sound trite, but it was the devestation and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on N.O., that really woke me out of my stupor, and made me think sh-t! the so called greatest embodiment of empire, the USA cannot or will not fix one of their own devestated cities. Politics aside what other greater example of the ‘cracks widening’ in the empire was there other than N.O.?!
    Sorry to rant so…as a newbie on this forum I should use more decorum…
    Alex
#20

[quote=“BottomFeeder, post:19, topic:408”]Sorry to rant so…as a newbie on this forum I should use more decorum…
Alex[/quote]

What?! Decorum? We save that for humans. Civilization doesn’t get our decorum. Unless decorum means “rain of green loogeys”. Then of course we would have to offer our utmost decorum to the Taker scum.

ha ha. sigh. high spirits and all that.

Once I read in a book by the ‘famous tracker’ Tom Brown Jr. a quote from his mentor, “hate the action, not the person.”

It excited the hell out of me, because it meant someone I respected still honored hating!

So get your hate on!