Running for Your Life: Subway Mood

It’s darkly interesting to chart the loss of community consciousness in the subway, where in the past several years of doing this journal (including drawings not seen here, part of a separate work-in-progress project I call, “TRACK WORK”) I’ve noted a marked acceptance of the pocket-computer as self-immersion device.

Kierkegaard has a handle on this, to wit, “the self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.”  

Got it?

Where is the community of souls I used to ride the subway with? Today (November 5), a conductor makes a humorous announcement and not a eyelash signals awareness. Where is the hope in the wasteland of aloneness, especially given the power of evil forces – Zuck, Trump, Bezos and Putin – who have moved so far beyond market share and stomach share to brain share, and in the case of Putin, absolute power? (Dictators see “share” as a liberal power grab.)

Next: Running for Your Life: “The Testaments” Meets “Motherless Brooklyn”