http://www.mayapedal.org/machines.html

This link just completely blew my mind. Listening to some really weird music by 'The Residents' playing in the background isn't helping. Amazing ideas on this website. If anyone out there is interested in collaborating on fabricating any of these ideas I am totally down to contribute whatever I can...

also I've been reading The Final Empire for free online. Nothing earth(civ?)-shatteringly new, kind of like 'End Game' but 12 years older. I'm thankful to have the internet to realize that 18 years ago people were writing books about ideas I completely agreed with at the time which coincidentally left me with the naive attitude that I was the only person who had realized how utterly foolish everything was. 

In relation to last weeks post I also ran across this essay: How to Drop Out 

seems a bit like saying don't do anything, but I always appreciate it when people ruminate on this subject. I get the whole $= death equation inherent in civilization. 

civilization, capitalism, forgive me if you feel like quibbling over the differences, but this is about the overlap.... 

anyways I think the validation of debt and credit systems as a basis for 'owing' other people~ slavery is contingent on your willingness to engage the system and replace the debt. He eschews going to school and getting in debt, when I look at the debt bombs more like this:

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20091206003234202

 My problem with this is that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and imitating what the "too big to fail" crowd does is at best an odious necessity.  It matters what you put your money into, and we need the means to make fishing equipment, not money for fish sticks right? (If you happen to be practicing ahimsa or vegan/vegetarian forgive the omnivoro-centric analogy)