So on Thursday I'll go and cast a vote in a fairly pointless, in the ecological scheme of things, decision about whether the UK should remain part of a regional capitalist market organisation dedicated to promoting never ending economic growth, or whether it should leave, not to turn its back on capitalism but to forge its own brand of participation in the global capitalistic project "free" from the constraints imposed by levelling across the European field. Or that's how the two official in and out campaigns appear to see it once you strip away the corrosive fear mongering that has characterised the entire campaign.
Every so often something comes along, a book, a film, a piece of music, an article, which has the effect of consolidating what you partially know and allowing you to see things in a new light. For me this week Guy McPherson's current lecture was such a piece of work.
... after it has left the sinking ship.
The fundamental feeling is wanting to shout "Come on guys, the water is fine, you can swim, its better than sticking on board where there is no way that the owners are going to let you take the helm to steer away from the rocks."
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