Swirling Leaves

I tied a cordless leaf-blower to my electric cargo-bike and have been clearing pedestrian paths as I go along. I make a bit of a spectacle, and I am pushing 24+ volts through an 18 volt blower, so it whines but blows a good bit. It is fun polishing the “public goods”. Teenage boys clap, mothers shout thanks, the homeless give me thumbs up, all of which is a new experience for me. So it is probably illegal. (Just guessing.) Public Goods, like roads and bike-ways, are those things that Government manages. So politicians manage them – or don't. Some folks do not believe in public goods. Some are politicians. They do not want to govern. They believe in power and money, not in governance. So it pleases them to dismantle governance, destroy the public goods, to usurp them to individuals who can horde them for profit. The potholes in the street in front of your house, that is part of the process of dismantlement. So is denial of global warming – the ultimate dismantler. For the last 10 years the oceans have been absorbing an average of 10.3 Hiroshima bombs worth of excess energy every second, that's 37,080 per hour, 6,229,440 Hiroshima bombs worth every week. 330 million every year. The bill starts to add up. That is why I get spontaneous applause from teenage boys, mothers, and the homeless. My act is revolutionary, another old Don Quixote riding a bony pony against the whirlwinds of grand hubris. Cheers! https://eand.co/why-democracys-broken-in-america-and-britain-5582ab57afd5 https://climatecasino.net/2023/01/how-many-hirsohima-bombs-per-second/