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Since it seems that The Wonder Springs Chronicle is the only voice, anywhere, describing the end of the Industrial Age and in the process being replaced with an Individual Age, this week we will continue those developments.

We initially chose the term Individual Age, because of the rise of personal computers and all the rest of related technologies, in combination with emerging social media. Additionally, the similarity of the terms makes for easy associations. A lot of these changes will turn out to become a cacophony, but we truly need to look beyond the past as a model for the emerging future.

However before we get into that we need a little reality check, to make sure you realize these stupendous changes are not going to be without pain, perhaps suffering, and even that endangered term: sacrifice.

Until last Wednesday, for a week or two I found myself hesitant to do something I thought I should do. It really wouldn’t take that long, just get on the Internet and place an order. While this purchase wasn’t really expensive, under $100, that is still more than just a trivial purchase for me.

Friday morning I woke up to the news that Japan had experienced an earthquake, now rated at 9.0 on the logarithmic Richter Scale. The purchase that I finally accomplished Wednesday afternoon, after I completed last week’s “Individual Age” was Friday reclassified from hesitant to procrastination. The order, which arrived in my mailbox Saturday morning from some Nowhere spot in upstate New York, to this Nowhere spot in Washington State, is what would be best described as a survival knife.

Tags: Individual Age, Industrial Age, Japan, survival, Humpty Dumpty, Laissez Faire Scoundrels, Collectivist Elitists, Barack Obama, natural markets, debt tsunami

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In the twenty-first century — a Humpty Dumpty lament:

After the Great War, the nation state of Humpty Dumpty determined to build a Great Wall. For two generations the citizens of Humpty Dumpty toiled and labored to achieve the goal. When the wall was finally complete; the view from the top of the wall was mind-boggling. It was like on a clear day you could see forever.

In the fullness of time something radically changed, the bricks of the wall became human and came to life. Struggling to be free from all that impediments that stifled their individual creativity, they sang: Ring around the rosy, A pocket full of posies, Ashes, Ashes, We all fall down!

The Humpty Dumpty king rushed to the wall with all his faithful well-trained horses. Following close behind were all the king’s men, who tore their robes and moaned and bellyached.

Then the king, his horses and the king’s men held a requiem and each spoke in unison: “Whoa is me! I told you so! Humpty Dumpty is broken, and these people want to preserve their cake, just eat desert, and not get back on the wall. We can’t put Humpty Dumpty together again!

The chaos was just too much for them to handle; yet they were all too selfish to admit that they were really the designers of the wall’s structural problems and Humpty Dumpty’s demise.

But these newly freed people all sang, “We’re tired! You’re fired! It’s time for a Renaissance and a Reformation based upon self-evident inalienable human rights. The Industrial Age is dead. Long live the Individual Age.

Today we are seeing this lament playing out in countries around the world, as we see the end of the Industrial Age that brought totally unique prosperity to parts of the earth, while scores of other people were almost untouched by these material blessings.

Just what is an Individual Age?

Tags: Humpty Dumpty, Individual Age, Industrial Age, Denial River, renaissance, reformation, The Day that Music Died, USA, FED