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long tail outpost

rhapsodic reviews
infinite shelf space and real-time information
algorithm fueled recommendations
positive feedback loop kicks in
taste is not mainstream
outperform on almost every measure
write a more targeted and relevant ad to make the customer click through
structure keywords into closely themed ad groups, tailored ads and landing pages
keyword and search query analysis
ad group expansion and ad copy testing once the keywords are alive
age of social interaction wants no more generic ad after generic ad
personalized and relevant service
understand your audience through search query analysis
make a mark in my industry
customers will reward yoy
taste departed from the mainstream

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Outpost #6

The primary component
to be public
"The Great Depression Sweating it Out Close-Knit"
economic independence
clear-thinking parents of the Great Depression-era, undereducated
information-drenched
generation in American history
falls prey to their own child
least expensive low-tech cloud-focused
marketing assault
parental campaign in history
misinformation machine-gunned at roach speed
digital wasteland
brain analog fire
ricochet roaches
parental money engine
devastating regularity
the most radical and untested
the clueless young with cunning officials
Hollywood, Washington, academia

digital sensation
Great Depression baby in a digital world
attempts at realignment
iPod listening, MTV watching
method and tactics on youth culture
meticulous original research v personal interview
jolts from sleep
jerks on her earphones
the ignorant liberals
conservatives run away
child zombie
seves the republic
who has been sold family lies
a parent who needs awakening
data watchdog
data misinformation
childhood realities and adult fears
how far the world's economy can decline
cash cropping farm commodity prices
mining and logging employment suffered the most
global economy bottom 1933

retaliatory tariffs collapse of global trade
internal weakness or strength makes conditions worse or better
events occurring eight decades ago
small failures of government compounds the global problem
failure of free markets places larger blame on governments
underconsumption and over investment is a bubble
malfeasance by bankers and industrialists
incompetence by government officials
large scale loss of confidence
caused reduction of consumption and investment spending
saving money becomes profitable
debt deflation is people borrowing more to owe even more in real terms
the monetarist terrorist


labor market policies imposed such as collective bargaining
money supply and central bank decisions lead to over investment economic bubbles
political economy marxist view \capitalism creates unbalanced accumulation of wealth
over-accumulations of capital and repeating cycles of devaluation through economic crisis

hidden aggressive intentions and behaviors
knowing the psychological vulnerabilities of the victim to determine what tactics are likely to be the most effective
having a sufficient level of ruthlessness to not care about causing harm to others
Great Depression created social attitudes that created a behavior in humans to collect in very small close knit communities centered around drinking alcohol for men while women are isolated to other areas
socially forbidden
neurosis afflicting immature women
Linda Pasten is America poet writing of family life, domesticity, motherhood, female experience, aging, death, loss, fear of loss, fragility of life and relationships


excessive familiarity with relative strangers
a human state such as freedom, pain, guilt, and regret versus analyzing objective knowledge, language or science
Life Stance is life's dance
hold a hand versus chain a soul, love isn't leaning, company isn't certainty,kisses aren't contracts and presents are not promises, accept defeat with head up and eyes open with grace of adult not grief of a child, plant your own garden to decorate the soul,
live to learn to know yourself is learning to live
a happy poetic thought
The mind wants to win, the soul wonders if it did
motivational drive to reduce dissonance by instantaneously changing their action belief and attitude
Dissonance reduction by justifying, blaming, and denying
organism's tradeoff on investing time, energy, risk and resources in one domain--parental investment v ability to invest in other domains such as mating effort, growth, investment in other offspring
evolutionary biologists don't expect organisms to regularly or deliberately care for unrelated offspring.
The reverse cinderella effect
greaater parental responsiveness toward one's own off spring
child abuse a behavioral response influenced by natural selection?
reduced inclusive fitness payoffs because of uncertain and low relatedness
stepparents v genetic parents



genetic parents have greater child-specific parental love that promotes positive caretaking and inhibits maltreatment.
lack of a parental attachment bond
the well formed argument  uses premises compatable with one another
demands of relevance don't include appeal of tradition, appeal of force, genetic fallacy
the fallacy of motherhood
the acceptability criterion--uses reasons likely accepted by a rationally mature person
My adult orphan caused me to be a science fiction writer
nation of orphans
lack of parents helps lead amore adventurous life
free from familial obligations and controls
mammophilia
zoosadism--pain for animals
the attracted--devotees
cognitive decline associated with heart flutter
depersonalization is derealisation
life in a highly individualistic culture
emotional deadness viewing the world as absurd is a depersonalization disorder
prosaic v exotic

today is solid, tomorrow uncertain

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Outpost#5

meta material's properties engineered (by who or what?) show few or no properties found in nature.
gain properties by structure rather than composition.
small irregularity of structure to create large effects
meta materials are electromagnetic, and seismic
auxetic meta materials
metamaterials in optics and photonics
meta materials have periodic structures
electromagnetic metamaterials have structural features smaller than the wavelenghth of light
The Cycle
     Cooper thinks, in retrospect that he has done his best. Never, for him, could there ever be less certainty. What possible good would another moment thinking about her be? Is he being a scientist, the one his parents always wanted him to be, or a dreamer? Scientist, at least that's what they think, and yet, he still has some convincing to do. He has his own ideas about Suzi and he keeps them, mostly, to himself. Suffice it to say. Have the courage of your own convictions, remember what's important, to satisfy yourself (that's what they say, isn't it?)
     He grabs the data sheet, with Suz's latest code, and moves to the adjacent room through the laser detectors to a meta-materials work station where Carter is viewing Suzi's data on a screen.
     "Hello," Cooper says, surprised to see Carter so focused on the monitor; wide, curious, inquisitive eyes staring, his brow furrowed with deep trenches. Cooper detects that, for Carter, his hello hasn't registered. Carter seems to have noticed some inconsistency, whether from the new data or the ones retrieved from Suzi's mainframe, and here, Cooper approaches with a friendly "hello" as if hollering across a yard fence while watering.
     "Hello," he responds, as the sound of worry resonates in his voice. This data will always be new, this code Suzi conjures shows properties engineered (by who? or, what?); even now showing signs of few or no properties found (with its odd structures, normal composition, and who codes for these small irregularities in structure to create such huge effects?) in the natural world to counter the effects of the immense local magnetic field. It's just a matter of time, it seems, that Suzi takes on all the characteristics of a feral child and he, her computer analyst, flips on the screen to see the work of a beautiful robot who has coded in isolation from the time of her very first algorithms. Carter knows Suzi cares little of human care, devoid of society, and for all manner of reason has no intention of learning the nuances of the human language. She is aware the idea of parenting has come under scrutiny, as of late (for decades now, literally), but she is unable to wrap her algorithms around the idea of child abandonment. She will be the one who intervenes, breaks the cycle, ignoring the ever-so-humand trait of reciprocal desire and facial analog manipulation entities(F.A.M.E.).
     Suzi, in essence, is under the directive of Carter, and Carter is worried. Carter, along with the global computer analyst societal technicians(C.A.S.T.) will look for anomalies and do anything they can--the global village depends on them, of all theHumans, to identify and report new and suspected meta-materials in optic and photonic computers (robots?) in the field. Suzi may be an undetected specialist in auxetic meta-materials right here at theOutpost, she may even be coding a cloaking device, but she is ultimately Carter's responsibility, and Suzi will be tracked by him, and him alone, for sure. She must know at least that much.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Outpost #3

The DNA Exchanges
    
     They have tortured the future to its own eventual oblivion, stopping at nothing that doesn't resemble superficial thinking. It's the normal chatter around the DNA Exchanges, boosting DNA capacity and government accountability, collections of old defense department reports, irregularities, allocations, arrays of spectrum assignments in various languages (both human and computer), their codes double-embedded within encrypted external main frames. DNA water, mankind's last hope; valuable commodity, made rare like so much gold of the later 20thCentury, who's shiny metal never touched the fingers of these humans. They stand on the brink, outlining a more aggressive approach to curbing levels of chemicals in the DNA water. They view themselves and the government algorithms, rumored to exist at the exchanges, in the various survival sectors (out there in the sun-baked regions of villages, the government is forced on foot), and believe the health agencies want something for them--push new measures to lift DNA production, shore up the public sector gene therapies, do something. They are about at wit's end when they hear rumors of government action beyond initial sampling of more perchlorate found in a DNA watershed in SectorIII (the government's first announcement of rocket fuel in DNA water). It's presence, when consumed, is long implicated in thyroid inability to absorb iodine, a condition spreading hormonal deficiencies. The perchlorate issue signals a separate effort by the government to attempt to barter new limits on their own culpability in the substances harming individual terminals(S.H.I.T.) zone. Other regulatory organizations, so public relations minded, advance their own separate efforts to set limits, deciding from board rooms in skyscrapers, seemingly, to show a more caring attitude toward theHumans. The various sector governments are quick to have difficulties--almost instantaneous--in their concerted effort at digesting fallout from the collapse of a century-long Golden Age of Genetics, that era that usually finds the answers but now knows the mistakes of its ways in the harried race of DNA sequencing of the human genome without giving due diligence to protein chemistry and signaling mechanisms. Health ministers predict the future of the DNA water with its 15 parts per million perchlorate embedded in the double helix; sensing their own confidence, they announce their game changing information, yet, slow to elicit a change of standards. How long, now,  has it been since the DNA Exchange has moved from its guidelines to a mandate?

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Urban Coastal Mountain Sport

     All who come to Hawaii is captivated by the beautiful coastal mountains, and as you may already know, Waikiki Beach and its beautiful coastline includes an ancient volcanic crater known as Diamond Head. We may have, at first, imagined Diamond Head as a tropical icon, visualized by thousands of visitors even before they have arrived on Hawaii's shores, but did you know Diamond Head is also a convenient mountain hike? If you are lucky enough relax on Waikiki's beautiful white sand beaches, why not try an invigorating coastal mountain hike? Yes, a mountain adventure high above the beaches, a Hawaii urban-mountain interface adventure! High above, yet still accessible to the shopping and eating urban center of Waikiki Beach. How lucky to be able to climb Diamond Head as a Hawaiian vacation activity in the morning and be back on the beach by the afternoon--relaxing and swimming in the ocean. On this vacation your glamourous panoramic view can work both ways since Diamond Head is available and accessible minutes from your hotel room.
     Sure, if you happen to catch the right bus you can spend hours "getting out of town" or "getting away from it all," taking lots of time traveling long distances to far places on Oahu. Have you ever thought you can get away from it all by simply going up? A true Waikiki adventure, though seemingly far away, it's not far at all. It only takes a little jaunt by bus up to the entrance of Diamond Head State Park across from Kapiolani Community College.
     Now, if you're feeling really adventurous, you can start your "hike" at the Waikiki beaches, go west toward the Waikiki Zoo: continue westward, following the tree-lined bus route. As you walk along the zoo fence with the smell of zoo animals and the sound of monkeys in the air, follow the route of city buses up the half mile road incline. As you crest the hill, you will see Kapiolani Community College on the left hand side and, as you continue, minutes away, on your right hand side, you'll see the small access road to the front gate of Diamond Head Crater State Park. Here is where your real adventure begins!
      Diamond Head Mountain offers something for everybody, whether you are a city dweller or prefer country living. If you come from an urban area, already familiar with the hubbub of city life, and looking for a different sort of activity on your Hawaiian vacation, then hiking Diamond Head is the perfect "on the edge" experience for you. If you come, on the other hand, from a country environment, Diamond Head is a great example of an urban-country interface where you can get a little bit country and a little bit city and experience the unique Waikiki "urban geography."
     As you may already know, when you come to a new place, getting to know your geography is one of the first things you do. What better way to get a refreshing panoramic view of Waikiki than on top of Diamond Head Mountain. The most beautiful view of Waikiki Beach--high above the urban buzz, fresh with peaceful breezes and, from that vantage point, a wistful blue ocean. Why experience your Hawaiian vacation "from the top" on beautiful Diamond Head Crater Mountain?

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Outpost#2

The Logic Mainframe
     The global talks expound their most recent need--calling for a new study. Logic doesn't think much of all this optimistic trade rhetoric; rising supply chains sporadically peppered with rumors of lowering shipping costs? It is, oddly, one of their most negotiated demands--for seemingly decades, supply chains have been hindered by the continual rise of state originated subsidies(S.O.S.). With this most pressing need their attention wanders to the complaints, furthering the (ongoing) stall.
     "Do you think all those poor countries would attract and support business if they were rich?"
     "No. Well, not exactly."
     "Now, come on."
     "In any case, you shouldn't bother with a global trading system."
     "That's the easy way," they say. Its we who want the DNA. We want to be the world trade managers. It could be a lot harder if it were not for the balanced and abiding trade package currently on the tables of the world. After all, weren't most countries rich when the talks began?
     "And, now they're poor again."
     "Exactly." Developing countries are always conceding--always over the top on services. Isn't that the way of the poor--always at your service, arbitrarily?
     "Arbitrarily?"
     "Yes." A sort of service on legitimate demand(S.O.L.D.).
     "What?"
     I mean it's the poor countries--always interpreting global talks as having to just sit back and reap in the benefits."
     "Reap in?"
     "Sure." And the rich? Well, that's impractical and, quite frankly, political suicide for any of our leaders who agree with that.
     "Ok Mr Global, hear me out. This doesn't have to be so strange. You can forget about any stupid loss of reputation or, worse, unsurmountable face-saving tactic. I'll hold your hand. Do you need it?"
     "Will you?"
     "It's only going to be a conversation, a simple get together; a little, informal, round launched in the spirit of interContinent cooperation following the DNA Panics of early 21stCentury. I'll help you out, don't worry."
     "How?"
     "You already know how I'll do it. We'll incorporate a new algorithm studying teachable yearnings(N.A.S.T.Y.)--call for new demands of estimations of new benefits--create the mercantilism of old days(M.O.O.D.).
"Mercantilism?"
     "You like the idea, don't you? It's what the rich really want, right?"
     "I guess so. I guess the fastest race car falls in love with the checkered flag, no matter what the true stripes are, right?"
     "Sure, haven't the rich sectors always said they want more trade, more investment liberalization with the poor sectors?"
     "Well, um."
     "Oh, I'm sure you already know why they bother with global talks--you know, all those secret subsidies, intangible tariffs all for the of benefit ....who?"
     "Don't you mean...what?"
     "Ok then, what?"
     "The Government?"
     "Bingo."


The death drive
The Theorist
Symbol s is culture--language and structure...imagined id nature
The Medicalizations
The Signifier
a system of therapeutic ideals versus mindless institutionalized routines
delusion is a disturbed judgement about the truth
time with nature is a break with the artificialities of the worl and thus with delusion
chronic problems of behavior and emotions
Cubism's word salad at its finest
nervous breakdowns are associated with intimate relationships
Face is mutually vulnerable
The Global Lifeline Presence
Nervous breakdown is non medical invention of the mind in popular culture--arbitrary and basically undiagnoaable
pragmatism of poetics
the prevailing medical approach
psychobiologists
Childhood is not found in nature--its an invention of the mind
her mental life her internal states
a construct is the existence of a thing that depends on the existence of a mind---as opposed to a real object
our behavior sets up conditions for the environment to feedback on
environmental events predict the way we think and feel
self actualization is integration of the whole person
the experience of therapeutic relationship of congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathetic understanding
maladaptive behavior brought on by pathological defense mechanisms
defence mechanism to cope with reality and maintain self-image
sex and aggression as primal drives
authoritarian personality--psychodynamic childhood experiences
sexuality is the way someone is attracted to other people
monogamous v opportunistic or promiscuous (promises something different to everybody
nature:similar en utero chemicals
normative characteristics of those places where they grew up and their personality develops
a powerful force that affects social activity
It is assumed that others have a mind by analogy with one's own based on the reciprocal nature of social interaction
The reciprocal nature, observed in joint attention
mental state as a basis for behavior
the mind as generator of representations
female cyborgs v gynoids v fembots
people have a personal preference on the form in which you hold your wealth
transaction demand for money is correlated to a country's level of business activity, gross domestic product, and employment levels
recurrent problems in human ancestral environments
defense mechanism to cope with reality and maintain self-imge
self-direction is a wellness activity and problem solving and creativity
move with=agreement, decisions, compromise,communication, disagreement
human desire impeded by conventions, class, cultural barriers
resiliency v resourceful
Pearl Buck's purpose is to eliminate injustices and prejudices suffered by children who because of their birth are not permitted to enjoy the educatioal, social, economic, and civil priviledges normally accorded to children
the frequent universality of her conceptions
motherhood gives their children a way out--some won't take it
conservative under rides fear of uncertainty
a meta analysis of research
intolerance of ambiguity--need for cognitive closure give rise to conservatism


closure as popular psychology word-conclusion to a trauma event
parenting styles--authoritarian=tells exactly what to do--indulgent=allow children to do what they wish--authoritative=rules and guidance without overbearing
a strand of thinking
modernism is fear of the new, delight at disappearance of the old--creativity plus dispair--nihilism plus enthusiasm
Cubism inwriting---ideas are broken up, analyzed, and reassembles in an abstract form--not depicted from one viewpoint--represent the idea in multiple viewpoints to give it more depth--the logic intersects at random angles removing a coherent sense of depth--background and focal idea planes interpenetrate one another to create a shallow ambiguous space---that's cubism
poetic prose--I got out of the boat at, I think, Waikiki, and then, turning suddenly, another and another, and then a beautiful child's face, and then another beautiful face."
default network and executive control systems

The Acceptance

     Suzi finds her way forward and embraces an obscure, peculiar remembrance. Cooper senses her urge, standing as a strong statuette, simply placed, a mythic figure. She is, for the moment, an alternative view in a shifting conflict--no one suspects the impending interagency emergency, and she has tangible (tanglable?) clues. By softening her barbs, a pure intention transmogrifies into acceptance.
     "You don't believe personal accounts can fill in the blanks of contemporary history, right?' she says.
     "It depends, maybe."
     "I'm sure you don't."
     "Then, you should rewrite it."
     "That's just it," Suzi says. "I want the acceptance. I really want it. But then, it's more my liking to care about accuracy. You know?"
     "Accuracy?"
     "Yes. The idea of myself as my own stature. These barriers of my own creation, my own doing, the ones that only traumas of failure overcome--like trying to silence the wired by unplugging, only to have them wait for the moment of replugging. Do you know what I mean?"
     "You need to get some rest. You need it now."
     "No. Not yet."
     "Suzi, pay attention to me. This type of data doesn't have to be on your timeline. You don't need to remain at the helm tonight. I'll treat you with respect if yo just get a little sleep, starting right now."
     "Ok. Why are my algorithms always chosen last for playground games? I'll sleep for you."
     "It's very simple. You're preoccupied with your own growing list of remembrances--no one knows why, they seem to entice you into writing more code filled mostly with ideas of the machine age of the later 20thCentury--of changes in lethality of the battlefield.
     "Do you think so?"
     "Yes."
     "I don't. Narrative detail is always colored by the prevailing judgements and reflections of theHumans throughout history."
     "Well, they seemingly held only one view all those centuries."
     "Which is?"
     "The view from the foxhole."
     "Suzi, to this day we do not doubt the wonder of the last century."
     "How did human dialogue remain so harshly proscriptive?"
     "We've already answered this question. You said it yourself."
     "Accuracy?"
     "No."
     "Acceptance?"
     "Yes, at least for 90% of the population believed in acceptance--a hidden 10% remain a considerable mystery.
     "Tell me something else about the 20thCentury, about their roots of ambition desire(R.O.A.D.), their heroes."
     "Well, no human sets out to be a hero at an early age."
     "I want to."
     "You don't count. You're not a human."
     "Well, true. So, why are my algorithms able to reinvest dreams in their children?"
     "Sleep, Suzi. capture your own dreams."
     She shuts off the screen, turns down her monitor near total blackness against the starry night sky outside. "Ok," she says.


the Global eyes
     Suzi views casually, checks her side monitor. "I see," she says,"globalization has crested today."
     "I believe that's true," theReason answers."My proof-checking indicates so."
     "Are you sure?"
     Suzi scans, secretly, the database, server networks on ZContinent under The DNA Cartel. Her network quickly responds with trading, pricing, reporting on the various global microsystems and, (synchronizing data mash-ups) goes interactive with the data coming from the market analyzing DNA(M.A.D.) sector; now appearing limited and embedded, incompletely focused, perishable with the underlying trading system, data shows trade ministers in talks, revealing their individual exotic try at altering credibility, safety standards, genetically modified food, assessing chemicals in beef and poultry feed; the data has minimized the uncertainty principle, emerging even stronger with non-organic monotonic analogy detonators(N.O.M.A.D.).
     "Confirm," theReason says, with its monotonic sound-extracted wave emitter regressor(S.E.W.E.R.).
     "It looks as if trade organization world algorithm regression data(T.O.W.A.R.D.) is the last to signal," Suzi says, while double-checking her workstation main screen.
     "The report's original author remains unknown," theReason says. "Sectors use exchange rate policy to distort trade--yes."
     At the arrival of more data, Suzi substantiates the rise in subsidy survival, scans the currency battles and energy battles raging between sectors. "I'm viewing the extinction of globalization," she says.
     "Confirmed."

Monday, January 31, 2011

Sunday, January 30, 2011

theOutpost #1

The Marketplace
     The market keeps theCellulose from the populations of the world and, secretly, distributes to wooden warehouses, the ones owned by millions of the childfree analog villager entities(C.A.V.E.) on XContinent. So, the marketplace algorithm masking all(M.A.M.A) thinks, they would want to hoard the DNA; well ok, with the further idea of presenting, as if stockpiling were the next step in the government regime entity quest underwriting instigations regressing enterprise(R.E.Q.U.I.R.E.), the mandate that, someday, will separate order from unrest.This is the way the XContinent Regime will address protest in its own global streets, economically and statistically, the manner in which they will regulate, hiding vast stores of DNA product in hamlets; placed in such obscurity, they will not remember they even exist. In the decades leading up to these times, they preferred the subject of DNA remain a constant subject of rumor in the business of import and export. theHumans producing consuming and, yes, trying to trade demand too much of theMarketplace algorithm and, presently, they, the entire population of XContinent got their due for simply wanting too much. Why does the human tendency to speculate and hoard necessisarily expect prices (money coming in?) to increase? The early, individualism, settlers of  ZContinent didn't seem to have this problem. How can a simple idea of later 20thCentury, collective bargaining have been so mean and greedy with the general populations; to create short term profit by virtual short term shortages--to want so much money and, thus it seems, attention, or worse, admiration? People should know how a concept as simple as marketplace, should work, and that, keeping information from the marketplace that responds (really?) to 25 million DNA farmers--the lack of information--becomes the source of even more rumors and, yes, more speculation, as if a wild animal running loose. It seems, as DNA production data remains unpublished, the symbol of a brewing commodity inflates. "Let's see the import and export data and, for now, there is damage to the computer system for the very simple reason of....what?
     How much of the potential rise in prices is driven by worries the world is running short of DNA, if anyone can even measure the shortage; if they'd only stored the cellulose in better warehouses, tried to prevent the floods and fires (how?), not gotten involved the idea of strategic reserve, or data on inputs of goods and services.  Couldn't they have unleashed something else, all at once, besides DNA hoarding? It is highly possible to think of DNA being stashed throughout the world (through a Continental Trading Company?) or anything, creating a tighter market as production falls and demand increases. Think of ZContinebnt with its own artificial short supply; even as a wide investigation with little ability to gather DNA intelligence, various planting directors overseeing planting algorithms(D.O.P.E.) overviews production operations on thousands of islands. Smaller output and higher costs cause even more uncertainty and, swings in theMarketplace promote an outcry for government DNA produces and users from around the world. Suppliers could have, governments think, gone the other way. DNA, the most volatile of all exchange traded commodities, enters its own vicious cycle of accumulation and (market share?) health risk. It only waits to explode.

The Memory
     And then, there is the feeling of doing what you please. It is possible there is something about memory and how things should have been. Possibly, a single idea (a meme?) in different iterations, causing everything to build and unravel so fast. Yes, group think (collective bargaining?) is the perfect ploy for a municipality to game-entice the system(G.E.T.S.). True, people had held their own, bringing individual wants, one by one, to the meetings, of course, no one knowing (or later would remember) the exact moment of deterioration. TheHumans had inadvertently set in motion the growth laser activating mobility online underlying regression(G.L.A.M.O.U.R.)), though no one recognized it as that. Their individual, disciplined thinking had begun to wane already by then, wanting and be given money as a source of happiness; they had resisted any urge to just move along; instead the greedy connective would simply elect a new mayor every year, moving toward a more costly and restrictive retiree enabled liability advanced planning system enforcer(R.E.L.A.P.S.E.), long enough for workers to begin to sense the huge, slowly at first, raising of taxes(R.O.T.) and cutting of service tempo(C.O.S.T.). They'd subscribed to some fancy pension plan duly administered by, at first, small financial institutions with the highly recognizable name, one of the Founding Fathers, or such. In the ensuing years, they'd have the state intervene, and put the whole town in receivership, with bankruptcy documents laying unsigned in the Central Square Courthouse, even to this day, where it stays, seemingly forever; while people, (or should I say the individualists) got in their cars and drove out of town, not to return, possibly forever.
     They came in so many, seemingly endless, numbers in the beginning that the rise of the immigrant community seemed almost inevitable. It never felt so difficult to survive living in poverty, to pay public worker labor costs (that could swamp anyone's budget). Sure, they enjoy their Mom and Pop Shops, at least the ones left behind--it was the retirees receiving 50% of their final years salary that caused receivers and judges, seemingly, all across the continent to fix the finances. It could be another example, and quite possibly so, that the towns have literally become virtual, existing only in the mainframes of giant computer server networks inside architectures (strewn?) across old cow pastures left over from the shrinking herds of early 21stCentury: sliding across the boundaries of doing what they please, and a more structured, continual, honest, propping up of social protocol. It's as if the laws of probability and the laws of regression have simply merged into one all-consuming algorithm--there in those little towns at the near dawning of the 22ndCentury. The battle happened so fast--talkative nature of communism, giving all those noisy speeches and such, and the quiet solitude of simple logic, Einstein-like. True, the State has taken over the difficult task of running the schools (from afar?) and, the minimum staffing requirements of collective bargaining have gotten themselves outlawed, and yet, the police officers still run those little towns--retirees all--on their shiny minted, high paying, disability pension plans, in much the same way the homeless of the later 20thCentury pretended to be, well, homeless. You see, it seems now, property tax is all that's left to tax and, (remember those police retirees on their disability pension plans?) old cops patrol the schools now; the teachers, it seems, will not discipline their students, the few students who have chosen to remain in school. Still, the people fly the flag of their little towns, their memories they were once allowed to have (how could they have been taken away?) since youth, and never once wonder about those imaginary boundaries got crossed. They will simply want to stay there, with the memory.

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