Signs and Banners of the Future

Well, yesterday's kiddos were about a jillion times more compelling than today's grab-bag affair. "This is what democracy looks like!" Is it? Yoy, I'll take the global gulag. A most undignified afternoon all around. I hopped on the trusty Trek hybrid and dogged this sorry accretion of has-been and never-was political yuksterism.

Personally, I think the whole global order is close enough to an inflection point that I reasonably expect to see some or other revolution of affairs within my lifetime. As to what I can do to bring it about or speed it along at least, I'm fairly convinced: not a thing. Nor do I share anyone's certainty that what comes next must inevitably be better. Even were I to believe that peoplepower could crack the foundations on which rests the superstructure of global capital, I am . . . dubious of the papier mâché revolution.