the tragedy of theresa may (and her little pony)/ the house always wins

poor theresa may. poor her little pony.  it was almost tragic.

so horsemouth opined at the cesura/ acceso launch gig at cafe OTO.

there was a violinist (with noise), a poet (with a microphone that cut out) and a pianist who morphed into a dubstep producer (god the tech is good these days) and a writer discussing technology.

there’s a magazine and new book(let) by howard slater on music and politics (horsemouth’s kind of thing). 

there was john and darsavini and antony and others too numerous to be mentioned.

ah. end of the week and horsemouth contemplates (more) beer. having brought home 3 bottle last night (and having shared out two) he brings home two more bottles tonight.

in the private life josh cohen proposes that the happiness agenda (once briefly popular with governments before the return of that old standard the whip-them-back-to-work agenda) as a counter to the declining rate of profit.

it was once briefly proposed that we should drop GDP (gross domestic product) as a means of measuring how satisfied people were with their lives because it had little correlation with how people felt about their lives. (except perhaps negatively - despite having the GDP whipped out of them people still felt pleasure). horsemouth is in favour of keeping it because then we can measure the workers’ share of the GDP - something that has been falling for decades...

 well ok - to backtrack and undo horsemouth's own argument - josh cohen actually says productivity (currently more fashionable).

but of course more entrepreneurial times are also more unstable times with values rising on a whim and collapsing mere months later (and of course in gambling on this the house always wins).

indeed the house always wins because we now have a real-estate mogul for president (president rentier trump - the triumph of the rent). meanwhile... the internet of things promises to tell us more than we could ever want to know about production and distribution and consumption - micro-chipping everything from cows to car parts . but what happens when the product lifecycle flatlines.