Marjory Collins Super Suds in cooperative store, Greenbelt, Maryland May 1942 Sifting through the debris after the initial wave of the year’s first major storm has subsided, there’s no escaping the realization that the damage is structural, this was no incident, and the next wave may well topple the whole structure. Its foundations have been impaired so thoroughly by many years of intentional neglect that the only sensible thing to do is to raze it, lay down new foundations, and
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Arthur Rothstein Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas 1942 The world economy today looks like an episode of MASH, but without the cued laugh track. The pain and injuries and festering wounds that are the flipside of issuing more debt in the face of too much debt are tangible on every screen. As if the viewing experience wasn’t painful enough with the plots about China and the emerging markets in general, an additional fear-ridden storyline was added yesterday, when
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Arthur Rothstein Homesteader raising baby chicks, Bankhead Farms, Alabama February 1939 The Future Of Our Children Is Taking Shape Today. Ask any parent and they will say they care about this more than about anything else. These same parents, though, are leaving the shaping of that future to the global financial industry, which has gotten so powerful it can buy anything and anyone that can be bought, and decide who will be destitute and who will live lavishly. And that
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Marion Post Wolcott “Grocery store in Negro section, Homestead, Florida” January 1939 Nicole talks extensively (do have a seat available) in a very recent interview with Alex Smith at Radio Ecoshock about the discussion surrounding David Holmgren’s Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future Crash on Demand, Nicole’s own reaction to it at The Automatic Earth, Crash on Demand? A Response to David Holmgren , the fact that many people apparently didn’t understand what she was trying to
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Steffano Webb Vacuum Cleaning Co. machine, Christchurch, New Zealand 1910 When I had some serious problems with my Mac earlier this year, I wrote that I saw no other alternative then to get a new one. Several readers, for different reasons, commented that Macs are not the way to go. Of course, I’ve heard much of that many times before, and I haven’t for a moment been tempted to switch away from Mac. I’ve seen many people go the opposite
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Arthur Rothstein “Low-cost housing, Saint Louis, Mo.” March 1936 It’s been quite the emerging week in the financial markets, but we shouldn’t let that make us ignore what goes on in the real world. The numbers about US and UK real economies may not have been entirely surprising to those of us who peek behind the veil from time to time, , but they were surely as bad as they were probably confusing. The media and “leaders” never seem to
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