I find myself exhausted and weary with the thought of our staggering dysfunction as a society. It's everywhere... Mean-looks on the streets, socioeconomic prejudice, individual dysfunction and a system divided internally and doomed for inevitable collapse. Sadly, Halifax is a glaring and loud example of our deepening crisis- the loss of human solidarity. That spark that was snuffed out through fragmentation through time. Opinions are the spent shells of this silent social war and sham we call North American culture, which is being far too generous in definition... Imaginary ugliness and mythological imperfection haunt everyday people to varying degrees. I see streets soaked with piss and fear. The glimmerings of some nameless and dreadful armageddon. The incessant static of negativity destroying ourselves and our world is reaching its critical-mass point. You can't even say 'Hi!' to someone walking by anymore. Even clerks in businesses are rude. The meaness in this world is deluging everyday life... I remember a different world, before the cold-steel of antisocial-technology, where there was a warm and old solidarity and a fascination with strangers, friendly and nonjudgemental. The advent of the internet, though a miracle in many ways, strangled organic social culture to DEATH! Sure, the scene is not some desolate post-nuclear devastation, but, in a way, the fire has gone out in the world, the Spirit of our kind dead. The rot will spread gradually outward, the end a stark certainty... —Watching the End Unfold between the lines and below the surface...