Fairfax (Supplemental)

University Mall is a set of collage-oriented retail and Freshman 15 food shops off of VA 123 Across from the Campus at George Mason University. Tom Thrasher, a partner in crime (mostly public disturbance) during High School, a good friend, and soon to be graduate of GMU has called on me to stop for a few days and take in a greater experience of the area. Not that I'm lacking in experiences around here, far from it; since he's been a student here I've come around quite a few times for a slice of beltway college life. For the most part that consisted of a little too much partying for the school's own good and subsequent dealings with the local security goons who take their jobs way to seriously. Though the case can be made that those days are well behind us, I won't forget the weekend I came around for the foray of the GMU Men's basketball team in the Final Four a few years back...mostly because I don't really remember that weekend at all (there were many drinks).

But these days Thrasher runs a weblog on the economic and theoretical landscape of the ongoing Information Revolution themed around Hayekian ideas of the Extended Order, or as we had previously mused together, "Industrial Revolution 2.0". Originally feeling law school way back, I feel from him an increasing sense of entrepreneurial and journalistic gusto no doubt triggered by his economic schooling and interest in social evolution. He is always the first and last to remind me that emerging socio-economic orders are always a dense jungle, and where there is a jungle there also are machete-toting mercenaries ready to blaze you a custom trail to your destination. Hence is the nature of the service economy in an information heavy phase of civilization. I'd take those kinds of opportunities over being a desk jockey at a beltway think tank office any day.

He'd better ring me back soon. The night is nearing and the air is thick with the feel of approaching rain.