The time has come to assess Vashon, to make sense out of the disconnect between global disintegration and our denial that it will affect us. Was going to say “complacency” but that did not seem strong enough to express my dismay, and in fact denial is not strong enough either. If you have not yet noticed, the highest priority of the Council is to maintain ferry service for the commute in spite of overwhelming evidence that car commuting by ferry will be an early casualty of the looming collapse of the US domestic economy. How blind can we get. Well, make that crosseyed, because we are neither blind nor stupid. Let me tell you what we are. We are in an advanced state of mass hysteria induced by the Apocalypse of climate and war, which state is not ameliorated by our leaders because we do not have any leaders. We are unincorporated, ie, without body, and specifically, without the part at the top. We are a raggle taggle bunch of highly intelligent and capable people who do not realize the mortal cost of relegating...