My town got rocked by Hurricane Fiona, a category 1 hurricane/severe tropical storm depending on where you were. Debris smashing into my Northern wall, shaking everything with loud crashing, and deafening rumbling from the wind. I was sure windows would break… but they held, and deflected all debris. Lots of siding torn off (usually the sort of damage reserved for extreme blizzards). Storm surges caused the waterfront blocks of the downtown area to be in the ocean for a bit. Certain stores with generators are filled with people charging phones (we used our car battery to get a bit of juice). I walked over to my in-laws today and saw some of the devastation… downed lines everywhere, trees uprooted, roofs broken, and leaves/branches everywhere.
Night number three of no power. 12 hours of darkness means time spent by candlelight, writing with pen and paper, and reading… Keeping our phones charged by a car battery (doing that sparingly now). I’m mostly electronic , but I did find a paper codex of the Silmarillion, the Longman Anthology of Romantic Era literature, and… economic books, Das Kapital by Karl Marx, along with A Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith… so now I’m reading about the economic theory of the industrial Revolution, industrial era, and the criticisms of mercantilism and capitalism. Now I too will know the ups and downs of 19th century Western economic movements
Marx is known for his communist theory, historical materialism (that inspired Asimov’s Foundation), and criticism of capitalism, but he also wrote the first real book about capitalism—while capitalism had been tossed around as a term before and concepts discussed in various works, it is Marx who first defines capitalism and writes an extensive and in depth book on it. He also coined the term capitalist for the drivers of the capitalist/liberal economic order. So, interesting enough, he can be counted among the fathers of capitalist thought. Although, he looks more at where capitalism is going as an angle… similar to Smith on mercantile economics.
I’m sure you’re interested to hear about this fun stuff!!!
Looks like most of the city is still without power, they’re still assessing damages, so it may be a few more days before get back our electricity.
Night number three of no power. 12 hours of darkness means time spent by candlelight, writing with pen and paper, and reading… Keeping our phones charged by a car battery (doing that sparingly now). I’m mostly electronic , but I did find a paper codex of the Silmarillion, the Longman Anthology of Romantic Era literature, and… economic books, Das Kapital by Karl Marx, along with A Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith… so now I’m reading about the economic theory of the industrial Revolution, industrial era, and the criticisms of mercantilism and capitalism. Now I too will know the ups and downs of 19th century Western economic movements
Marx is known for his communist theory, historical materialism (that inspired Asimov’s Foundation), and criticism of capitalism, but he also wrote the first real book about capitalism—while capitalism had been tossed around as a term before and concepts discussed in various works, it is Marx who first defines capitalism and writes an extensive and in depth book on it. He also coined the term capitalist for the drivers of the capitalist/liberal economic order. So, interesting enough, he can be counted among the fathers of capitalist thought. Although, he looks more at where capitalism is going as an angle… similar to Smith on mercantile economics.
I’m sure you’re interested to hear about this fun stuff!!!
Looks like most of the city is still without power, they’re still assessing damages, so it may be a few more days before get back our electricity.
