[Arm-netbook] why i am persisting with this project

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 6. August 2015 16.07.53 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> several people have left this mailing list, or have become lurkers, or
>> are no longer actively supporting the project, yet i am absolutely
>> committed to it despite that.
>
> I'm certainly looking forward to a successful campaign and the availability of
> the EOMA-68 cards and the micro-desktop. Are we any closer to you pushing the
> big green "go" button? :-)

 ehh still haven't heard from my preferred factory (the one i've been
in contact with for years) after they had that surprise tax audit.  i
wonder if they've had a bit more attention than they've said they've
had (for example, email communications monitored and censored)...

> Paul
>
> P.S. Political rant follows; feel free to ignore...
>
>> if you would like to know why that is, this is the reason:
>>
>> http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2015/08/deflation-debt-and-gravity/
>
> Sadly, too many people believe in the false and insensitive analogies applied
> to the Greek situation of household indebtedness (debunked by Krugman, I
> believe) and obesity (absurd in itself), with the tired phrase "tightening the
> belt" bridging the two. The fact is that pan-European economic policies and a
> dose of punitive austerity appears to have worsened the competitiveness of the
> Greek economy to the point of collapse, and yet the creditors demand even
> better performance than before.

 denial is easy.  find an excuse outside of yourself and believe it
with your entire heart and mind.  everyone does it to some extent.

 the thing is, on all of these political forums (the a.e. included) i
quite literally do not see *anyone* offering any kind of solutions.
all i see is people talking about the problem (or denying that it
exists).  to find "solutions" - or people taking action - you usually
have to look elsewhere, such as at "permaculture" or google "tent
cities", and other such things.

 wow there's 6 tent cities in california and 5 in washington.  "tent
city urbanism" looks pretty interesting.

l.