The Wire Snowman & the Dark Abyss,
First Street, Richland, Oregon, South Wallowas . . .
On the road in the American Northwest.

. . . A Nighttime Meditation on the Dark Abyss
of Runaway Economies . . .

Symbols refer to meaning

as currency refers to value:—

only in a highly abstract and intellectual way.


The danger with such abstraction

is that it tends to wander off on its own,

losing its basis in actual earth-bound fact.


Eventually,

symbols may refer only to other symbols,

and meaning then becomes

merely a systemic property

inferred from the symbols themselves;


Likewise,

value may no longer be grounded

in natural richness,

but simply in more currency itself.


Before we realize it,

it will seem logical

to say that life began with a bang,

and markets must end with:—

a crash.

Corruption on the money markets?
a: The higher the degree of abstraction with which the
wealth produced by the many is represented, the more
likely this wealth will be hoarded and abused by a
privileged few.
b: Don't try to control the complex routes and byways
of currency. Rather, limit them—and strictly. With clear
stop signs, speed limits, and permissible directions
of flow. Always: a free market
is necessarily a strictly—not controlled—
but limited market. At present, world
markets are not free at all, but controlled by oligarchies,
which explains why, like a car
accelerating in a positive feedback loop until
its engine explodes, must at
some point spin off violently into runaway
until they collapse and implode upon not just themselves,
but us all.

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