apocalypse and transport panic

so horsemouth has recovered john gray's false dawn: the delusions of global capitalism from the racks (that should probably be capitalisms) to go with his copy of black mass: apocalyptic religion and the death of utopia.

will self is a fan (so that's probably a bad sign). 

black mass benefits from the chats gray had with norman cohn whose the pursuit of the millennium was particularly influential. 

here it has been raining but it has now stopped again (and now it has started again).

horsemouth very much enjoyed this john gray conversation because essentially horsemouth is a doomster not a booster - he sees no way out of the current collapse of (neo-)liberalism that leads to progress up into any kind of world in which he would want to live, in fact all he sees is it's collapse into even worse varieties of capitalism, authoritarianism and  attempts at re-founding 'community'. 

the thing that distresses him most is that this seems to come not from the ruling class but from the people (although the british ruling class may eventually work out how to profit from it). 

that's not because he think that it is impossible that there can be progress towards a better world but because he thinks there won't be progress towards a better world given the current balance of forces. 

but (conversely) for the right wingers to get what they want everything has to line up for them too (and horsemouth does not see this happening either). 

once again horsemouth was thrown into a transport panic - there was an agreement to a doctor's appointment without checking if there were any buses to the village, initially it appeared not (no 440) but later it appeared there was (442).