Night into Dawn 5 comments

12 Dec 2004 @ 09:21, by John Ashbaugh Thirteen Moon Natural Time Calendar; Blue Crystal Storm Year, Overtone Moon, Moon of Radiance, Overtone 27, Kin137, Red Resonant Earth, Guided by Universal Water. Night of the New Moon, Saturday, December eleven. [link] Morning class in Economics with Elesio, Randy, Lucasta, Elizabeth, and Dan. We go through supply and demand. Good repore with this group. Told ‘em to go see the movie, The Corporation, [link] which I saw last night at the Guild. Don’t often get around downtown, and the younger people are standing around the microbrewery near the theatre socializing. The lights of the street are all ablaze. Would all of this be in darkness, where would these youngsters be? The Guild is the last continuously functioning old single screen theatre in Albuquerque, and the current owners for about a year now have been serving up a varying menu of the old and the new, the classic and the contemporary, changing shows every two, three or four days, sometimes a one nighter, and other fare for thoughtful folks. There’s about twenty or thirty patrons at last night’s show in a theatre that would hold 200. Maybe the boys and girls outside the microbrewery have already seen this movie. This is this movie’s second time around through ABQ through the Guild. First time got good response. There was a call for a return, but now this return does not seem to be drawing many customers, so the owner / ticket seller and his partner the popcorn manager tell me in the small lobby area before the show. The owner walks up the single aisle to the foot of the old stage and gives his customers a little personal introduction to the movie he is about to show and a few remarks about shows coming up next week. Movie house with a personal touch. Here is the preview to the season of Lights Going Out in the City. Actually, when you think about it, that might be a fairly good way to shut off the nuclear threat to this planet. Shut off the electricity. That, of course, would create displacements in its own right. Nevertheless, the economic and political turmoil that is beginning to proliferate and ripple through the industrialized world may necessitate radical readjustments in demographic patterning anyway. So much attention seems to be directed towards the energy requirements of the automotive and industrial sectors in general, that the one defining characteristic of our current lifestyle that is deeply ingrained in many of our lives, the fact that we live with electric light through the night, doesn’t seem to be getting very much attention. Where are you going to be when the lights go out? What are you going to do when the lights go out? Who are you going to be around in the neighborhood when the lights go out? Are you in a community of friends who can work together for a common purpose? Afternoon class was with my Globalization and World Culture class; with Evan and Michael, and Dean, and Joe and Victoria and Yolanda, and Michelle, and Jason; Will and Leander came in today, and Cheralene called in sick, so I told them all about the movie I saw last night, and this class being about globalization and all gave me a chance to open up a little about how I thought they might want to start thinking about the world around them as differentiated from the traditional model. Slightly more interesting than the textbook material we are required to cover, not that it’s all that bad. Just needs a little spice from a more critical perspective. Victoria is listening closely, as is just about everyone in their own way, and Evan and I, of course will always have something to disagree about, although we do have some good common ground. Finish off the afternoon session with a showing of Life and Debt, a critical perspective on how the IMF shortchanged the Jamaican economy. [link] Where are you gonna be when the lights go out?

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