I suspect a few people might read these dispatches; I don't care. It's cathartic for me now. Access to the Web is spotty at best these days, depending on where you are. We've got power most of the time now, things have settled down pretty good and there's a good volunteer circle for the city's power plants. I guess our decision to remain in Nova Scotia wasn't such a bad one after all. A lot has changed since the Collapse. The earthquakes, firestorms, tidal waves and tsunami's the wingnuts and Hollywood rained down on us never quite happened. It's a pleasant, rainy June evening as I write and I'm serenaded by the mournful, perhaps fitting tunes, of Sigur Ros. I suspect it will be a while until they ever record an album again. Or anyone for that matter. iTunes is gone, well, they've all pretty much gone from the Web now. You can't run a business when there's no payment system, no banks, no credit cards.

The world held a collective breath as December 12, 2012 hit. We got drunk when it fizzled. I saw a guy with a "End of the World" sandwich board drunk and crying in the doorway of a closed business the next day as I ambled downtown. Sudden death was the deliverance that would've been too kind a gift for the false prophets. They cried that the earth did not render assunder in a giant, orgasmic cataclysm. More's the joke on them I thought. Reality sucks.

I think we knew there was something deeply wrong by then though. Some say it was Tunisia in January of 2011 when it kicked into gear. Others say it started far earlier. Everyone seems to be blaming everyone else. The Bible Thumpers call the Muslims the devils children and the Muslim's rail against them as Satan's Servants. The corporations blame the over-regulating government. The Republicans put it on the union-hugging Democrats and the Democrats blame the cronyist Republicans suckling from the tit of the uber wealthy. The middle class just didn't care, they were squashed between, the very oxygen sucked out of their lives.

Churchill was right that democracy isn't the answer, but it's the best thing we've got. Communism failed miserably, socialism was far too expensive. Capitalism has collapsed. Now we have nothing. Well, perhaps that isn't right. The banks are gone and no one has any debt anymore.

Ah, well, I'm tired. I'll write some more tomorrow perhaps. Thank heavens for Apple making good stuff. The MacBook is still working. We pillaged a FutureShop the other week and got a few extra's and are hiding them. It's not right, I know, but then what is right now? It's tenuous at best and we've a long way to go to restore a truly civil society.

So how did we get here? Well, I'll be going back over that in the hopes that these dispatches from the bitter coast of the Atlantic ocean might provide some insights to our children's children someday.