'the poor are getting old' (die with zero)

argh! a consequence of the power outage seems to be that the controller for the central heating and the oven won't come on at the preset times. horsemouth was instructed not to touch it and the repairman was called. he took a look at it and reset the times. now it seems not to have come on at the requisite time. horsemouth has been told this (and again instructed not to touch it). 

horsemouth thinks there is almost certainly an easy way of turning on the heating (when needed) and the oven (when needed) so he is not too worried. whether he can get it to work with the timer (without being allowed to touch it) is another matter. 

hopefully it will now come on at the correct time (yes horsemouth touched it). 

there is a manual. (phew thank fuck it has just clicked on when it was supposed to). 

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two walks on the common today.

it is three years since the storming of the capitol by donald trump supporters. horsemouth read an interview with the Qanon shaman (as was) - what is he up to now? more hucksterism. possibly running for congress. was it an insurrection? well yes, but a plausibly deniable one. 

horsemouth is looking forward to his brother's visit on tuesday. 

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in the evening nomadland. it is interesting that one of the driving forces behind this is now called  the great recession as if only after the event can it be admitted. the nomads work - we are now into a society where the deal for the working class is so bad that work can no longer gets them a roof over their heads. and... in the words of the ruthless rap assassins 'the poor are getting old'.  in some ways the film at least relates it to the experience economy (accumulate experiences not money) and to  the die with zero plan - use your money now to have experiences, aim to die with little money and few possessions. 

there is a confluence with the ideas of minimalism (minimalist lifestyle) here.

of course in their travel the old people are not doing it under the sign of leisure (and consumption) but under the sign of work (and thus production). they are therefore bad people for bringing a dirty secret to life. they reveal the house you live in, that you may have thought of as capital, as a possession, as merely something that reproduces your labour value and gets you to work on a monday morning, as a debt-motor. 

look at these people - rob the nomad, thrift a life/ bookpilled . they are young, smart and active but they are also either homelesss, on the edge of homelessness or a  paycheck away from the street. thrfit a life/ bookpilled has escaped - but to do so he must go traveling in mexico and asia, rob the nomad was homeless but then he was walking the appalacian way (so his nomadism was sanctified as leisure). both have discovered youtube as a huckster-machine. look at Qanon shaman here - one hustle ends, he is on to the next.