'... the pandemic, global civil war, and the acceleration of climate collapse have marked the end of this expansive paradigm, forcing us to imagine the events to come from the perspective not of expansion, but of exhaustion and contraction...' - 'bifo' befardi, quit everything. available now from repeater books.
ok horsemouth is back in some sort of semi-stable condition. he thinks it was one of those periodic re-glitches in the force/ denial of service attacks whatever.
he read the piece by 'bifo' befardi on substack (and very good it was too).
what do we do when faced by defeat? we retreat to the mountains and grow potatoes (like ivan bunin). to hell with them and their small highly efficient teams, to hell with them with their doing more with less.
horsemouth was always very fond of scavenging for furniture, and second hand stuff. why? because the money he saved by doing that he didn't have to earn, he didn't have to work for it. in this he was guided by the wombles and stig of the dump. he would have gotten into taking sandwiches but it required too much planning ahead. it has (so far) worked out reasonably well for him.
in a little while the news (more defeat).
his recent toys out the pram makes him contemplate what his digital activity would be like if he had to start up all over again.
in a way it would be no bad thing. the substack would replace the blogspot. he would be free to abandon the complaisance that is facebook. he would rebuild his connection round google.
he doesn't see a way out of the constant autobiography.
so there was rick rubin talking about doing the thing you love and not listening to anyone else. sadly this hasn't always been horsemouth's attitude.
then horsemouth took up listening to more john hassell (but with brian eno this time).
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