the Quay

The partiality of which; the lack of fullness; the crossed multiplicity of intent; the absence of oxygen; crossing the road (chickens and pedestrians). fully engaged with no formative agnosia. Top of a Sunday afternoon, a flow of tourism around the Quay framed by the regular thrum of Koori didge players and the random fall of jacaranda blossoms. A stiff breeze keeps the municipal commissioned flags nervously fluttering. They advertise “The Rocks – Markets by Moonlight.” A tool in the portfolio of State to promote expansion of markets, consumption. Is it truly such that the State withers without ‘development’ and ‘expansion’ of markets? And what of the grand-scaled discourse — Rousseau, Mills, Veblen, Arendt, and all the others — are these merely reflective of historical knowing, but not of accurate prognostication of individual trajectory?