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So sad! I remember when I was in middle school and would come to San Francisco on the BART. The virgin megastore was, at one point, the coolest store I had ever been in. I loved it! I would spend hours in it, although I don't remember in retrospect buying hella shit there... I guess that contributes to the reason why it's closing.

Still, I've always loved the atmosphere. It's one of the only places I like to sit in while reading magazines. In fact, I think if I remember correctly, I've never stolen anything from the virgin megastore.

More recently, when I was living downtown and trying to avoid my ex-bf, I would hang out here for hours. I will always remember the great times I had here, and all the memories.

Did you know that the San Francisco Virgin Megastore has a myspace? myspace.com/virginmegasanfrancisco

3/13/09

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Can Marijuana Help Rescue California's Economy?

3/2/09

economix

... one of my biggest faults is my complete failure to grasp business and economics, and since I'm self aware I often speak of these problems. I'm not enterprising at all, although I should be, and I want to be. Just like most people, nothing in my life is set at that this point, and it's impossible to feel secure, or "in your natural state" when basically nothing in your life is how you want it to be. With that being said, I should also say I'm grateful to have a job, since the world job market is going through such unprecedented lows.

As a result, I've been trying to pay attention to things I really don't care about, and in fact don't like- business and economic news. What used to look like impossible to decipher number/letter hybrids now mean something to me, and I have been watching the news more, although the news is endlessly depressing, and inevitably obsolete the very next day.

Anyways, I'm trying to focus on positive things, and an economist on tv last night explained the current economic crisis in a "nicer way" basically, that the observed effect means that there's a price drop, but that everyone will be making less money. It's not like the way I get information is from the tv, and I totally don't watch it every single spare second that I possibly can ;)

Apparently, the united states borrowed it way out of recession in past recessions, but this time widespread price drops are going to be the dominant themes. Hopefully, political actors can act in time to make sure the united states doesn't get as ghetto as China. Why does the government and economy have to be so intertwined?

2/27/09

Anarcho-capitalism, economic slavery, and social collapse

I guess I want to document some of the "less important" news that has been going on lately.

The world economic situation is getting more and more dire. People all over the world are loosing everything, and nothing in this life is free. Unemployment is going up at a staggering pace. The economy continues to worsen, and it's not just in the united states but world wide. The government and economy of Iceland completely collapsed, and it seems like it was just the first of many more potential disastrous social collapses. The government is now trillions in debt, thanks to george w bush, it seems obvious that historians will place him rather unfavorably amongst the ranks of hitler, stalin, and chairman mao as one of the worst political actors in world history. The media has been covering the situation EXTENSIVELY, and now incredibly large sums of money are thrown out in terminology all the time. Trillions here, hundreds of billions there. The government is about to take over banks, and nationalize health care, hundreds of billions of dollars are now everyday conversation for the citizens of this fine country.

I guess I'm still proud to be an American. It was founded on such great principles, yet has still not operated in the right capacity.

Is the golden age of human development over? Looking over the skyline of cultural cities of the world, it seemed like there just had to be more, but perhaps that was the best is was going to get. I try to look towards more optimistic views, and pray that singularity will come to pass in my lifetime. It's just a matter of money being put into the right industries and institutions, who will use the money to evolve society- eliminate war, disease, famine, and every other problem human's frail and inefficient minds create for themselves as a species.

Corporations, in some ways, are changing as well. At first, when everything started to go bad, it seemed as though only the strongest and richest corporations would be able to survive in the current time, mostly from the governments giving them billions in spite of the obvious fact that a lot of them are about to fail and have 0 chance of success- essentially everyone knows that the money the government gives them will basically be wasted on CEO payoffs. It was scary to think that the only surviving institutions would be the most powerful of corporations, and along those lines it seems obvious that the only remaining power would be the only government left, and I don't want proctor and gamble, coca cola, and mcdonalds ruling over me.

These corporations already rule over everyone.

The reality, is that we are all slaves. Looking back at history, we think of slavery as so obviously negative, and obvious to the human eye. Historically, we had people in chains, being whipped, sexually assaulted, and forced into a whole life of servitude. Yet there are millions enslaved right now, in fact wikipedia says there are more people enslaved at this moment in time than at any other time throughout recorded history. If you want to be a part of everything modern society has to offer, then you have to work for a living, and you have become a slave to whomever or whatever profits off you and your work. Today, anarchists, socialists, and communists alike see existence as "wage slavery" or "economic slavery." The reality is that humans are forced to choose between selling their labour and facing starvation, poverty or social stigma and a lack of prosperity. This is related to the notion of economic coercion. If you don't play the game, you can't win- you'll be homeless in 2 months, and that's real. I've never met anyone who always gets to do exactly what they want (except the few people I knew in the past with millions of dollars, and they were miserable because there was nothing left to want or desire, which makes them passionless, but that's another story).

Again, we are all slaves.

I don't understand where all these hundreds of billions of dollars have gone. Somebody has to have it, or at least know where it is! How did all this money disappear. I know that money isn't real, and is in fact based on faith, at least in this country, but just as the government chants money into existence, money is too desirable to be chanted out of existence. Someone is skimming off the top. Someone has it. We should find them and kill them. I always see signs that say "eat the rich" and it sounds like a good idea, because I'm starving.

Overall, people are getting more and more desperate. The social collapse of western civilization is imminent, and has been going on even though our society dwells in ignorance and escapism. Hopefully, now can be a good time to change some things for the positive, instead of pumping tax money into dying industries and institutions that are no longer relevant, and stand no chance of evolving in a free market system. Right now could have been a time of unparalleled prosperity, not just for the united states, but for the whole global community. They did it to themselves, it's not our fault, and we shouldn't feel bad about them failing. That is, essentially, the core idea of free market capitalism- only the strong will survive, ultimately their production becomes the most efficient, and serves the most amount of people the for the cheapest cost. In some ways, it's sad, because it seems like the basis of human achievement, the pinnacle of human development, was all due to corporations, because they were the only institutions with enough money (hence power) to actually create anything.

Humans, I have noticed, are a lot like piranhas in a feeding frenzy. Humans consume, until there's nothing left to consume. If you happen to be weak, or not be the best fit for the environment, the humans around you will feed off you until there's nothing left. It works the exact same way through natural selection in nature; humans are after all, animals. When you're in the middle of the street, screaming fire while being jacked and beaten up by 3 people, nobody will come to help.

Because this is how humans are.

12/12/08

economy news

11/23/08

ghettoification of the united states

I don't like to write about governments and economies, but I guess I should document what's going on, cause it's only going to get worse, and after all, this is what people are going to write in history books eventually, and I hate revisionist history! It must be because I'm Native American. I'd rather get it from the source, and blogs are the new "oral tradition."

The US economy is slipping down a slippery slope day by day further into higher rates of unemployment and furthering stagflation- a stagnant economy with inflation. Obviously, there is a huge recession going on, and because America has dipped its dirty little fingers into innumerable pots around the world (globalism, exploitation) it has additionally affected many other global markets which now depend on our success. I never really pay attention to things like that, because I don't think of them as super important (even though they are, I just like to be immature about the situation). It seems like every day the stock markets are either up hundreds of points or down hundreds of points. Nothing is stable at the moment, all the banks are failing, and being bailed out by the government. Also, all of a sudden, cash seems to matter a lot more. I guess that's the fist thing they teach you in economics classes- that all of money is based on nothing, the only thing the economy and American currency is based on is faith. Which means cash money is the only real currency. I've never taken an economics class yet. I need to.

The government is using tax dollars to bail corporations out- including the failing car manufacturing industry. I saw fuck em, and all the people connected to them! They never tried to expand or evolve the industry, and if you can't adapt you can't survive. That's how things work in a capitalist society. Wow, I wonder if gas burning cars might have had a hand in global warming?

Inevitably what does this mean for someone like me? Next to nothing, aside from the "ghettoification" of the united states. I always thought everything was going to be nice forever. In a lot of ways, it seems like the United States just fucked all the other countries in the world over too many times, and now things are starting to balance each other out.

I'm hard pressed to see what the financial services industry actually does. It seems like it would be the kind of job where you pull little schemes here and there to move around already rich people's money into sketchy areas so everyone somehow makes more money, then skim off the top. On a more fundamental level, the financial services industry is analogous to a pimp or drug dealer. Personally, I have next to nothing, never more than a couple hundred in the bank, so it seems logical that it won't disappear, unless America gets really ghetto really fast, and all the banks money disappears. P.S. where did all this lost money go? How can the goverment go to a bank, and be like, "OK, you're supposed to have 50 billion dollars. Where is it?" and the bank replies "We have nothing." Why are the only power and wealth structures in America continually being fed more money, and now be fed so much power that the government just does whatever they say, including giving them hundreds of billions of dollars of MY (taxpayer) money? What's really ghetto is how unchecked and unregulaed all of this is...

At the moment, it seems like Obama will not be remembered favorably in the future, because he's not going to have any money to make any of the changes promised during his campaign. But then again, I'm registered with the Green Party, and see Obama and Mccain as 2 sides of the same coin. Simple economics...

So how will America look in 10 years? Probably just as big as ever, only ghetto everywhere. I guess everywhere is going to look like Target, while the European Union, Japan, and fairly soon after that China and India (who would have thought) quickly surpass America in all levels of progress, standard of living, success, (and GDP).

9/29/08

the beginning of the end...

I'm only doing this for documentation purposes. By the way, mercury is in retrograde, and I've had a migraine for dayz at this point. It sucks how much mercury in retrograde really seems to change things...

House Rejects Bailout Package, 228-205; Stocks Plunge- WASHINGTON — In a moment of historic import in the Capitol and on Wall Street, the House of Representatives voted on Monday to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry. The vote came in stunning defiance of President Bush and Congressional leaders of both parties, who said the bailout was needed to prevent a widespread financial collapse.

by the time that bell sounded again on the New York Stock Exchange, seven and a half frantic hours later, $1.2 trillion had vanished from the United States stock market.

What had started 24 hours earlier, with a modest sell-off in stock markets in Asia, had turned into Wall Street’s blackest day since the 1987 crash. The broad market, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, plunged almost 9 percent, its third-biggest decline since World War II. The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 778 points, or 6.98 percent, to 10,365.45.

These headlines were flashed on the Wellness Health Education Network screen at work all day. I hate being able to conveniently read headlines all day, because the future is just so ominous. Everything is changing. and falling apart. The world is never going to end; the world we know will now be a thing of the past.

A few nights ago I kept saying that the state of the country's economy was very ominous. I have had very ominous visions. In addition, it coincides with a personal monetary setback- I paid $500 to the city of San Francisco for parking tickets from a year ago, I don't want to talk about it, and I take responsibility. I guess that's all have to say.

It's weird because everywhere and everything is just "business as usual" and nothing is really happening yet. Has america peaks, and now it can only go down, be less nice, and less rich?

5/23/08

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