End Times?

The financial world is shaking. According to this guy, it's been a long time coming. It does seem like our financial sector has been totally disconnected from any kind of "reality" for a long time. Dreams of apocalypse have been with us probably since that first naughty monkey picked up a bone and clobbered his cousin and then wondered "what next." Every time you open your eyes a world appears, every time you close your eyes it disappears...

Coincidentally, I've been reading Pinchbeck's 2012, which is a long rambling book, sort of ridiculous and thought-provoking, wrapping up all kinds of apocalyptic speculations. The Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012 and that means either that the world as we know it bellies up, or enters a new positive, transformative epoch, or well, maybe nothing really happens at all. Crop circles, aliens, psychedelic shamanism and other bizzare speculations and weird phenomena figure in the book too. It's all kind of weird and makes me feel sort of "sunny," because it reminds me that Philip Dick's strange, paranoid speculations actually serve as a great template for the narrative we seem to be stuck in.

Multi-layered, contradictory, non-linear! That's the kind of world one can really sink their teeth into!