1. A Faint Road

Plum Local IV ::: Part I

Economics of Abundance

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1. A Faint Road
Bob Komives
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I found a faint road through a vast field
where genius, fool, and charlatan must ply.
As hard as the road is to follow,
harder still is to know who am I.

On The Art Of Synthesis

I am a wealthy pattern in my young, abundant biosphere. I am a thread in the net of life that threatens to encircle the universe. I seek a science to incorporate both the elusive abundance that builds what I have and the apparent scarcity that every day shows me what I have not. Through a vast field I follow a faint road along which I see landscapes that are impenetrable to traditional machinery of national and international finance. I see a distant village of mainstream economics barred from these exciting landscapes by its own walls and by the militant forces of pseudo-economics that interpose quaint, mirage-landscapes for mainstream society to fancy. In the same light that bathes the backs of those who once argued for a flat earth, I see proud, hoping, and helpless faces of those who argue for this week's popular economics —balance-the-national-budget-or-die. I see victim and perpetrator of quaint fancy.

Perhaps one fancy can replace another. Perhaps I can point through patches of scarcity in a field of abundance to a faint road that you will fancy to explore. I last set forth my fancy in Plum Local III, draft 4: For Love of Wealth and Biosphere; an Essay on the Economics of Abundance. What you read here is Plum Local IV. It has just enough editing and format changes to deserve a new title. For better or worse, content has changed little.

:: Bob Komives, Fort Collins © 2006 :: Plum Local IV :: 1. A Faint Road ::
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