the last volunteer

+ tonight we watched frantic, a 1987 movie about simple americans mistakenly caught in a paris crime scene. the climax is 3/4 through, when the american embassy guys suggest that several other characters, earlier seen to be as outwardly bad as the other bad guys, are on "our side". harrison ford reacts badly - our side? i'm not on anyone's side. americans in paris being chased by arabs. we're not on anyone's side, you bastards. globalism = no more sides any more, or no more relevant sides. harrison ford is the anti-citizen: he doesn't care about the arabs. he cares about his wife, and his friend. ok, so all politics are local. i do think there is stuff here about globalism and why should we care. rephrase: why should we care? in the terminator the cops are useless, just in the way, hapless, sidelined by a war between good and evil that they don't understand. this is a common theme. in frantic, the cops are the game, the war, and harrison ford is on the sidelines because it's simply irrelevant.

the good spy books are the ones that are honest about sides. the blurring. the kinship.

i do think that the lovely remote forests of the sunshine coast are a magnificent metaphor for queeruption 10. unless i am misinterpreting queeruption 10 as more significant than it is. as a cipher for radical, well, yes. of COURSE it's in the forest.

+ it's all a plus, still, but not really. everything is different now. or, everything was different in may. as if we are missing a centre? i had beer with ben tonight, which was nice. today is the day that i scored 16/21 on the burnout quiz.

+ i want to keep talking about globalism, and cities, and what it's all about, and what dubai means. i want to do this after i graduate. i have no doubt that i will get to talk a lot about rezoning.

+ i just finished john le carre's tinker tailor soldier spy and am now labouring through heinlein's the day after tomorrow, which is bad. i already gave up on it in may, and may yet again. i will next read fantasy government: vander zalm and the future of social credit. it is a polemic of sorts, but will probably make me feel the same as tinker tailor soldier spy did. kinda how harrison ford felt? i do want to read it, but i think it will strain my belief.