Some tunes, a blog, and a universe

Check out Central Processing Universe. This guy has some quality tunes, really good stuff if you're into electronic/IDM. I really dig 'flowetry' and 'There is More to This', which combines a nice flowing synth and a gentle kick-drum pulse with some T Mckenna clips in the background, need I say more?

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I greatly enjoyed reading Dimitry Orlov's newest blog entry, entitled, "Social Collapse Best Practices" which was a talk given 4 days ago at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.

"If there is one thing that I would like to claim as my own, it is the comparative theory of superpower collapse. For now, it remains just a theory, although it is currently being quite thoroughly tested. The "theory states that the United States and the Soviet Union will have collapsed for the same reasons, namely: a severe and chronic shortfall in the production of crude oil (that magic addictive elixir of industrial economies), a severe and worsening foreign trade deficit, a runaway military budget, and ballooning foreign debt."

"So, what is there for them to do? Forget “growth,” forget “jobs,” forget “financial stability.” What should their realistic new objectives be? Well, here they are: food, shelter, transportation, and security. Their task is to find a way to provide all of these necessities on an emergency basis, in absence of a functioning economy, with commerce at a standstill, with little or no access to imports, and to make them available to a population that is largely penniless. If successful, society will remain largely intact, and will be able to begin a slow and painful process of cultural transition, and eventually develop a new economy, a gradually de-industrializing economy, at a much lower level of resource expenditure, characterized by a quite a lot of austerity and even poverty, but in conditions that are safe, decent, and dignified."


In parting,

At that hour when all things have repose,
O lonely watcher of the skies,
Do you hear the night wind and the sighs?
Of harps playing unto Love to unclose
The pale gates of sunrise?

When all things repose do you alone
Awake to hear the sweet harps play
To Love before him on his way,
And the night wind answering in antiphone
Till night is overgone?

Play on, invisible harps, unto Love
Whose way in heaven is aglow
At that hour when soft lights come and go,
Soft sweet music in the air above
And in the Earth below

- James Joyce