THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN ADJUNTAS ARE NOT WATCHING TV AND WE ALL KNOW THE STORY. DO WE?

It is no motive to laugh nor to be cynical, we are experiencing the crumbling of the old order. We all know the story: the middle classes are disappearing from where they had existed in large numbers. First, a few years ago, a lot of years ago, the aristocracy was replaced by a larger mass formed, not by titles and “feudos”, but by investments, factories and guilds protecting their common benefits, isolated from where the resources and materials for their industries and monies came from into their lily-white self contained lands. And we all know the story: peoples from those non-lily white lands became sub proletariats, working in the mines, the farms, the forests collecting resources for the industries someplace else; and decided that they wanted the same things appearing on TV, owned and managed by the friends and relatives of the big corporations that had moved into their not so lily-white lands to control the resources, farms, and TV. Too many of those sub-proletariats needed jobs, and the industries decided to moved into their lands, and it was not because of their good hearts. We all know the story: cheaper labor and absence of laws that, supposedly, protect the sub-proletariat that suddenly became the new proletariat. But because there were not enough jobs for the new proletariats in their own lands, lots of them decided to move into the lily-white lands, transforming them. And do we know the story and its consequences! We do. In the meantime, the sub-proletariat and proletariats that stayed also wanted to buy the things appearing on TV, consequently, developing new ways and organizations that serve to make money, using their farms, yards, producing exciting and disorienting products to be sold in the lily-white markets in foreign lands; and then at the same time, Silicon Valley replaced the old sources of monies for investments, disregarded the old ways of getting jobs, education and communications, and not even paid attention to the fossilized guilds; and we not longer know the story since Silicon Valley is so new, and even if you watch TV, the old communication tool, anyway, it never told the full story, except after it had happened. Perhaps, the small village where my girlfriend lives in the middle of a forest is onto something: the young people are setting up solar panels in each of the homes, creating their own sources for wealth distribution -coffee and food cooperatives; their own radio and media systems, controlling the schools, making them environmentally friendly and as sources for active learning integrated with the traditional disciplines-. It would be a nice after the fact tv documentary, if the police would stop harassing them. We all know the story.