Wallflower at the Dinosaurs’ Ball

[Catherine Viel]

I had this image of the Deep State players, who are sometimes referred to as dinosaurs because they can’t adapt and will die out, having one last hurrah, which may be their incitement of the current world chaos, suffering, etc. etc. I thought how intriguing to be in on their conversations, to be a fly on the wall of their party. Hence the title.

The death of the regional shopping mall over the last couple of decades seems emblematic of their long-term destructiveness. Kill local retail, replace with soulless online robot-manned fulfillment centers.

At any rate, I wrote the following, musing on change, past-present-future, what our cities and communities will look like, how we’ll all recover from the government atrocities inflicted on world economies…If any of this inspires you, please contribute! Thoughts are for sharing.

[Catherine Viel]

Killing time at the uptown Santa Barbara mall, La Cumbre Plaza. Thriving no more, it is lined with empty storefronts and a few scattered diehards still hanging on.

I walk through Macy’s, looking in vain for clothing that I like even a little. The shoe department now looks like a discount store, Marshall’s or Ross. Serve yourself, and good luck finding your size or a knowledgeable, helpful recommendation. The sparse cadre of employees are just there to take your money.

I walk down the shallow steps leading back to the main mall walkway. No more than ten people within view including the ones sitting at the patio tables and sipping a Starbucks, which is like the roach of retail civilization: it will be the last to die.

There is a large penalty for living too long in one place, and I am cashing it in right now. The melancholy and nostalgia of watching how the mighty fall. I hear downtown Santa Barbara is thriving and was doing so even during the worst of the lockdown thanks to blocking off the main drag and opening it up to pedestrians only.

But I hesitate to make the short jaunt. I know it will be like visiting an unfamiliar town, something from the LA basin. Gaudy, soulless chain stores and restaurants,not the quaint local storefronts that populated it when I worked and lived downtown many years ago.

Is this how the dinosaurs went out? One species, one storefront at a time?

What is the new that will come in and replace it all?

*****

The cost of the various lockdowns, especially the punishing ones inflicted upon us in California, will no doubt be realized for years to come.

Unless, that is, Nesara and Gesara (or whatever the current label is for the coming global release of financial abundance) wipes out all old debts and old financial sorrows.

Letting my gaze travel across the wide empty walkways of this formerly beautiful and bustling shopping arcade, I can only wonder what its future might be. Its future and the future of all the other dying or struggling retail centers worldwide.

Touristy places like Santa Barbara will always bounce back once travel returns, which it is already doing to some extent.

But what of all the backwaters and dusty little towns? The Covid fiasco, not the disease but the authoritarian response to it, has been beyond devastating.

To me, the only possible savior for much of the world that has been nearly beaten into submission by our unfriendly governments, can only be the mass awakening and mass peaceful revolution that is said to be underway right now.

[Suzanne Maresca]

The dreadful plan to wreck this gorgeous planet has been a long-range one, and the perpetrators of it have been turning up the heat over these last decades because they saw the writing on the wall of their own demise. Spiteful to the last, they’ve made it necessary for continual adjustments to be made by those working to end their reign.

God willing, we’ll be witnessing the fruition of that shift in the coming months. I wish it were days, and maybe it is…but in any case, I’m holding out for us all to have what we need and to understand our connection to one another and to the All That Is.

Business will be a very different affair.

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