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.