“Henny Penny“, more commonly known in the United States as “Chicken Little” and sometimes as “Chicken Licken“, is a European folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes that the world is coming to an end. The phrase “The sky is falling!” features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Similar stories go back more than 25 centuries^[1]and “Henny Penny” continues to be referred to in a variety of media.

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Have we got a CONSUMER VANITY PROJECT for you?

As another longer essay has been in production for the best part of 18wks and my @greeneconomyact material has touched and built upon it conceptually for all that time I had better whizz this much out for my readers as useful or perhaps merely historical conceptual clutter lest it all however essentially frivolous or grave it may or may not be be swirled and swished away in the mists of time like some ephemeral and instantly forgettable stereotypical Australian story about the predictable stuff that happens to young white people raised in the neoclassical liberal materially acquisitive not to say completely grubby mental frame.. You quickly gather that our main target for virtual actual cultural demolition here is the mad reliance of neo-classical educational and entertainment media upon audio-visual and textual narratives (yarn-spinning, story-telling, variously glamorous or stern-looking television news-readings¹, $200,000 government funded 20-minute videos on Play School kiddie pleasures or sexual consent or any of the stellar array of vanities conversational, geopolitical, global or outer spatial assembled on historical lines, as though life, art and history itself had nothing to say – or c’est – about where the bizarre insapient existentially challenged species Homo-sapiens is at in 2023, let alone ANY futures read-outs that are not the delusional money markets carbon offsets, “Fly Buys,” discounts, elite membership privileges, #cryptocurrency and #Econometric Post Keynesian mental splatter of “jobs,” inflation, banking-industry cash-rates and “Growth” – investment in blowing stuff up and destroying riverine environs PLUS pizzas, clothing, electricity accounts & rich people’s holidays or any of the myriad public-money bonfires of the vanities for pale, stale, urinally incontinent and increasingly mentally wobbly but robustly self-obsessed life denialists attending ludicrous imperial Gyro Gearloose New Global Technocracy conferences about “Adaption” in Adelaide, South Australia and being really nice to each other.

GARGANTUAN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL COMPLEXITY FOR JUNK SCREEN DISPLAY NOW STANDS BY DEFAULT & NEGLECT of LIVED EXPERIENCE or REALITY to DESTROY ALL

We learn at snail’s pace and now despairingly belatedly that life, not even human life alone (if there ever were such a psychotic that is to write literally reality-denying hell on Earth: the Inferno² this time with real fire and boiling seas) is not some galaxy-scale stewpot of letters, glyphs and numbers.

While most chatter, say ooh or ahh a lot, and worry about those proverbial Jobs being Taken Over by Machines – as though they were agricultural labourers and it was say 1850 in England (and, er, the lord was in his manor and all was well with the world

It’s how we codify one fragment of cultural detritus and in so doing learn utterly NOTHING about it’s social, economic or ecological purpose.

Spiritual and ideological purpose, oeuvre-genre-milieu??

Doing-being-becoming??? Learning-healing-growth??? Hear, life, hope & gift????

But oh we’ve got it typed. You get me. Ich down I think Royals would aver. Essay on the uses of literacy and a global revival of intelligent non narcissistic fiction.

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English: First two pages of the 1840 children’s illustrated book: “The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little”Date1840SourceThe Remarkable Story of Chicken Little, 1840 ( found at http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Inpursuit/case8/11.pdf )AuthorJ. G. Chandler

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John Blundell

Philosophy of Science, Neurolinguistics, Sociology, Health, Economy

South Australia 26/7/2023

¹ who are these people, how when, where, why and by whom was this activity encouraged and what is it actually for but goods & services marketing and tourism for the Devil-may-care Rich and their tragic middle-income imitators? ..we are just asking ..we are asking alright.

² The Inferno is a fourteenth-century epic poem by Dante Alighieri in which the poet and pilgrim Dante embarks on a spiritual journey..

At the poem’s beginning, Dante is lost in a dark wood, both literally and spiritually. He meets the soul of his poetic idol, the Roman poet Virgil, who agrees to guide him through hell..

Dante and Virgil enter hell and explore its nine circles, observing the punishments suffered by the various categories of sinners..

At the bottom of the Ninth Circle, Dante and Virgil encounter Lucifer. They climb the devil’s back in order to ascend to Mount Purgatory.

Sharp readers will note that the only ecolocically and socially viable model of economy available to humanity, “CCEc” Blundell 1995, posits or rather identifies nine concentric circles of global economy, a notional but again existent and decisive C10 – Earth’s lower to mid to upper that is tiered atmosphere – and within the sustainable perpetual domain the notional circles individual-adult through geographical-community (a notional 10km x 10km) C1 to C5