The senses are unfailingly stunned by the effusion of consumer commodities and by the ways that humanity is active in every square inch of the rural and urban landscapes. And the different supermarkets have shelves groaning with price checked, multi variant versions of the same thing eg bread, booze and shampoos - complete with ‘best before’ labels.
After quick wanders around Poundland and Tesco I get a strong black coffee and sit with my notebook to record such passing thoughts and feelings as appear in the attention centre.
Today there were some thoughts about leadership, management and administration in the new politics of popular participation which defined for me the real outcome of the Scottish referendum. This links to the more hopeful and positive side of Naomi Klein’s new book that I am reading on my Kindle (This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate).The notion is that the power held by the present, elitist forces is increasingly being commandeered by various coalitions of the erstwhile ignored and dispossessed.
Ultimately the key concept is ‘changing minds’ so that, through the existential effort of a growing number of individuals and groups, the global Weltenschauung might become more greenly, social democratic.
SO – this week’s rearrangement of sensations did not reach as far as a paradigm shift; but the emerging thoughts helped pinpoint the links to the disasters that are neo-liberalism and free market fundamentalism. There is now more clarity about the nature of the problem and the possible solutions.
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