Well I've run out of excuses, and I'm sitting on a load of material to scratch out, so here goes. I've got a few pieces that comment on our national (and international) political economy, but the bulk of it has just been gleaned out of what has been right in front of my face, here in the sparsely populated northwest side of Mt. Rainier.
How does this all relate to the rest of my writings anyway? Have I finally gone rogue and dropped out? Well, probably not. If you've been involved at all in modern world affairs, not to mention being birthed in the midst of it and being shaped by it, then it stays with you. No matter how deep into the wilderness you go, you can never really escape so-called "civilization" and its attendant problems, nor can you completely duck away from its many gifts and resources and benefits, you are already it.
Most of the wilderness that is left has already been dramatically shaped by some human presence anyway. Further, we can disentangle various concepts rhetorically and ideologically, but reality as it really stands has no use for such distinctions.
Anyway, the preceding works and the following works are all continuous. We're just moving stuff around: consciousness, accumulated complexes and materials, spirit, etc., mixing stuff with other stuff, having new experiences through existing lens of perception, changing those lens in turn, which allows for other subsequent experiences and insights. And so on.
Some of the post takeaways may not be immediately apparent; they may accumulate and form more developed ideas further on, or they may just be throwaway thoughts. Which is how I've always worked, but some of this latter stuff may be even more out there. Or not? Whatever the case, I'm trying to go somewhere with it.
