tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post4978365633974300379..comments2024-01-31T16:23:51.283-07:00Comments on Keye Commentary: Blowing Reality Bubbles Is No Child’s GameJames Keyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11059210373687674369noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-92023829839783796252014-05-30T09:09:11.132-06:002014-05-30T09:09:11.132-06:00I have entertained similar notions, as to what exa...I have entertained similar notions, as to what exactly is going on. Many, many jobs, speaking as a generality, in the US, are FIRE jobs (finance, insurance, real estate), or simple service jobs. that is, jobs that were simply assumed in a community with human ties.<br />Need help building your house/barn, the community would chip in, so in the future you would chip in later for someone else. With more and more transactions being quantified (money based, rather than human relationship based), more FIRE jobs are necessary. <br />The rich wouldn't be able to build huge mansions on eroding beaches without HUGE subsidies by working people (insurance more affordable, disaster relief, police to keep the poor out). <br />There is a frenetic pace to life that keeps the masses busy, because there is real fear with the loss of community. <br />Technology has helped matters to a certain degree, but to me, it appears that technology, as per technique as the foundation, is meant to keep those with wealth to stay wealthy, via obfuscation and fear. <br />The industrial farming system is unbelievably productive, although unquestionably unsustainable, since all the abstractions it is built upon, as you mention, are fragile and ready to crumble (not to mention the soil stripping and petroleum base). <br /> - now my take is somewhat spiritual/metaphorical/mythical perhaps. In this age, we are offered much, but even in the industrialized wealthy areas, busy-ness/business predominates, mostly from ever-expanding wants, and certainly not needs. Cars to zip around to no-where of import, bigger homes, entertainment, insurance, and for what?- a disconnect from reality, as you put it. Very little spiritual work, the humanitarian efforts blunted by a system built on ever more efficient techniques of procuring profit. <br /> i suppose it's always been each individual's choice, but great effort is put forth to obscure what life and reality are, naturally, simply, rationally. <br /><br />If actions do have consequences, and as metaphor, humans are on a rampage to go deeper into the earth for its blood, dark oil/coal being burned, that blackens the sky and blocks the sun, as myth, it doesn't get much darker than that. Instead of harnassing the energy of the heavens (solar, wind), mankind has instead harnessed dark foul substances (and unstable, lethal nuclear). Solar energy let's us sleep, wind gives respite, oil/coal lights the night, and keeps us inside (home, car, office). Scary myth, indeed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com