currently we are: richard rigby on mandolin banjo, and vocals;
brad levia on arch-top, slide guitar, and vocals;
annabelle chvostek on fiddle, guitar and vocals;
daniel mckell on guitar and vocals;
mike rigby on guitar and vocals;
julia narveson on bass, mandolin and vocals;
and dina cindric on accordion, banjo, bass and vocals.
"... the money is itself crap. It’s based on a centralized lending scheme and has no intrinsic value. The Fed no longer even releases the metric telling us how much money is out there.
All this means is that you can’t count on capitalism anymore. Your wealth is not how many paper assets you have. It’s not even how much land you have (or think you have). It’s what you can do. It’s your value to other people.
The real economy need not suffer in the downfall of the speculative economy. If anything, the real economy has been repressed by the speculative economy. Real farmers have been crushed by Big Agra, real druggists have been crushed by Wal-Mart and real transportation alternatives have been crushed by Big Oil and Big Auto.
The opportunity here, while the big boys are down, is to rebuild the genuine, local commercial infrastructure. To make shoes, clothes, food, education, healthcare and everything else we can in a bottom-up fashion. While speculators enjoy the economy of scale, we inhabit an ecology scaled to the human being that was lost in the corporatist equation.
The sooner you “drop out” of the speculative economy and its abstract concerns, the sooner you will be able to create and provide real value for the people all around you, and the better position you will be in to get what you need for yourself and your family.
This is not bad; it is good. The pain that people are about to go through now is not the product of the speculative economy’s failure, but its former and intentional unjust success."
-Douglas Rushkoff
Heigh ho! Much enjoyed hearing the whole mess of you (for the first time) at the Green House! NDG content noted & much appreciated! We should foist some kind of shindig on the world together, sometime... Cheers, Patrick.
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