Part of this has to do simply with the new normal of the daily functioning of my brain with the influences of long covid. The reduced horizon of concentration, the dysfunctional memory, difficulties with language and motivation and passion, etc. all contribute to make the writing more difficult, so I have to work with what I got.
There is much to write about in terms of particulars in the political economy of the United States, and the rest of the world for that matter, but after a point there is only so many times I can keep harping on the same threads of doom. I'm tired. Everyone else is tired. We all know where this is going, which is a rhetorical and stylistic exaggeration, as there is much gaslighting and denial going on as well, so not everyone really knows. But you get the picture.
The continuing circulation of the virus, extreme weather events, the sagging and gasping supply chain, and the incredibly intense political tensions, among many other things, may together make for an explosive culmination in the coming years, to understate things. In time I may find reason to write about them, and indeed I do continue to write about them in a sense, just in a much more generalized way. For now I'm still laying down some bones, hopefully to help with future analyses.
The nice thing about abstracting is that when the various components are rendered well they can be put together into more complex models and say some pretty interesting things about our reality. If the abstraction is any good, you begin to see its signature - in however imperfect form - in reality itself, a useful aid for thinking about and anticipating that reality, though it can very easily be misused or abused. I've worn that theme plenty well into the ground here, but it is certainly a theme worth the wear.
