Searching for A Way Out

I've been looking at the stats for Deconsumption over the past few days, and I've noticed a couple things worth mentioning.

One is that I've been getting a rather large number of search engine referrals from people looking for something along the lines of a "crisis timeline". That's not all that surprising, since our world is in crisis and I did indeed write a crisis timeline. But I mention it in passing because...hell, I don't know, because evidently a lot of people are looking for someone who has a top-down view of what's going on. And of course it also tells us that a lot more people are waking-up to our cultural predicament than were, say, a few years ago.

But more interesting is that I'm also getting a respectable and regular number of hits from search engines given the precise term "New American Revolution".

I'd written a piece a back in 2005 entitled "Join the New American Revolution! (...and Get Out of Debt)", and evidently it comes up high on those search returns -- and I'm delighted it does, since any discussion of revolution in this country must only begin by seeing how stupidly enslaved we've allowed ourselves to be by our implicit acceptance and support of large corporations.

Early American history is a virtual tapestry of independence-minded people fighting tooth-and-nail against the imposing dominance that corporations were assuming over all our lives....but of course, most of those examples were quickly subsumed in a history written by the winners.

Still, it's fun to note the increasing number of people out there who are evidently rubbing the Google magic 8-ball, hoping it might actually tell them who might lead them out of this mess....

Oh, and while I'm on the subject.... It would literally boggle your mind to know just how many people actually google: "sometimes + you + eat + the + bear + and + sometimes + the + bear + eats + you"

Comments

[Ian]

Just agreeing with the prev post's comments - it is indeed good to have you back here, as temporary as it may be!