So I self-classify into the last stage. This is where a new breed of post-Industrial micro-capitalism is taking root. Instead of protesting Wall Street, this is the sector that’s slowly figuring out how to do without Wall Street. For now, all they’ve done is accept reality: game over. As Bruce Sterling noted, there is a certain fatalism to this group (he called it “Dark Euphoria”) that unites it with the winning team (their variety of Dark Euphoria is what Sterling calls “Gothic High Tech”). The Dark Euphoria types aren’t really trying to avert disaster or change/save the “system.” They are simply preparing for an economic-survivalist lifestyle.
But the Favela Chic group may do more than just survive. Once this group finds its footing, and awareness dawns on the rest of the economy that it really is a case of game over, this is where we can expect a new breed of political and economic leaders to emerge and reboot the economic system.
It will be a reboot the likes of which we haven’t seen since 1776.
Fasten your seat-belts. It is going to get far uglier than the #OccupyWallStreet gang realize.
I feel that this is how it will go - it's not about reform. But there will be a reboot. An entirely new system. An alternative based on taking charge of our own lives - and making a living.
