The Foreclosures of the Apocalypse by guest artist Colleen Nelson
Funny how the housing crisis seems to have disappeared from the front page. I suppose that means everyone’s back in their house, right?
Of course, “housing crisis” is a misnomer. The houses were fine. They just stood there, ready to keep people warm and dry.
If the houses were fine, where was the crisis? In the made-up stuff. We call it finance, politics. It’s all belief, a collective agreement to imagine a binding web, a collective imagining that escapes our control, fantasy stuff. We’d call it make-believe if we saw it clearly. “Let’s play Capitalism!” But it takes on a life of its own. We don’t know how to stop it. So every day, its consequences are no less than life and death.
Nation: Beware what you imagine.
Tags: Colleen Nelson, foreclosure, four horsemen of the apocalypse, guest artist
Excellent, glad you are reminding folks re: the housing disaster. I do believe the worse is yet to come when the commercial real estate market crumbles… Thanks… we have to stay aware and not let up on demanding that the responsible parties, as in banks, our government and dishonest investment cdompanies, PAY!
Dont know how to stop it and dont have an alternative!
WE will continue to pay as governments splash our money to the powerbrokers and tell us they are “saving us” from even worse cataclysms!
Bit of a non sequitor, but the second house from the left reminds me of Baba Yaga’s cabin on chicken feet. Maybe we can return to the cold war and blame the communist Russians for everything???!!!