Bilocated

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

An Obama stump speech, culled from WAPO:

          "John McCain has spent decades in Washington 
          supporting financial institutions instead of their 
          customers," he told a crowd of about 2,100 at 
          the Colorado School of Mines. "So let's be clear: 
          What we've seen the last few days is nothing 
          less than the final verdict on an economic 
          philosophy that has completely failed."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603732.html?hpid=topnews

This passage caught my attention as an echo of Against the Day, the
confluence of place and subject but presented 100 years into the
future, our present. That "final verdict" is backed up elsewhere in the 
wake of yet another major 'market disturbance', op-eds declaring the 
end of free-market fundamentalism. The notion of Adam Smith's 
"invisible hand" makes me think of the way my sister would play with
the ouija board, eventually tearing the planchette around—usually to 
the word "no"—and then storming off after this convincing display of
pure will cutting through foggy spiritualism. Nuthin' spiritual 'bout
this so-called "free- market," nuthin' free neither. Of course, Against
the Day is chock full of examples of free-market fundamentalism, 
that's what the Vibes are all about, right?