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01/25/2006
The mainstream is catching on
I ran into a friend downtown this afternoon who runs a hardware store, well, it a kind of combination hardware store and drop-in centre for guys. Because of this he tends to have his finger on the pulse of out little town and apparently the talk all week has been about a couple of items that were on TV. One covering the decrepit state of the US economy and the other about James Lovelock's message of doom. Apparently they've been the two major topics of discussion all week. The consensus from Raglan, like everywhere else, is; We're fucked.
What's really interesting though is that this stuff is starting to penetrate the mainstream media in a serious way (in New Zealand anyway). Of course I have long stopped watching TV - especially the news - so I didn't have a clue that it had happened. I wonder if it will be enough for people to start acting on it. My personal experience is that I need to hear about something several times over before there's even a chance that I get off my backside (except genetic engineering that is, the first decent article I read about it freaked me out so much I couldn't sleep).
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