This pretty much hits all the main points of what's happening right now with the US. The question you have to ask yourself is "why?"
Either the Trump Administration and everyone in it's "inner circle" is a complete idiot and actually believes that what they are doing will be popular and successful. So successful, that they are confident of victory in the midterm's.
OR.
They are acting on "privileged" information. They KNOW things about the true state of the world and are acting on that information.
For example, they aren't worried about the midterms because they don't expect to hold elections next year. Or rather, they don't expect to hold elections where it isn't preordained that the MAGAs win firm control of the House and Senate.
I'd say the odds are 50/50 that the US has "fixed" elections next year or is in a state of "National Emergency" and elections are suspended.
The MAGAts are also acting as if the REST OF THE WORLD has suddenly become meaningless. Again this could be sheer stupidity, arrogance, and incompetence BUT this is fucking FOREVER. We are pissing away an empire/brand that took over 70 years of effort to build.
Part of the reason the US has the biggest economy in the world is that so much of the world invests here. The global 1% do that because the US is seen as safe and stable. If that stability is called into question there WILL BE consequences.
SO.
Either the MAGAts are so incompetent that they are literally destroying the country out of stupidity. Or, they are acting on privileged information that indicates the world order is about to collapse and it's "every man for himself". And, I mean they think "collapse" is about to happen REALLY SOON.
What is said openly is generally worthless. The Elites NEVER tell the rest of us what's really going on. See, "The Crisis Report #20 – It’s not “crazy” to think that people who have access to privileged information will generally not tell you all they know. It happens all the time". https://richardcrim.substack.com/p/the-crisis-report-20
Based on the moves the players are making, I think the climate models are now predicting catastrophe over the next five years.
What is going on is that the "elite" see depopulation and harvesting newly accessible resources in the Arctic as the next step. Never mind accelerating the release of millions of years of frozen organic matter. With power comes delusion. The military has been planning for this for decades. The proof is all available.
They are definitely making this happen, and I do believe any "coming back" from this will, even from what's been done so far, will not be what we think, but at the very least, we are at a point where we need to cut our losses, if we can.
Yes, and. First let me establish my agreement with all you wrote. However, the universe is bigger than our thoughts and there are forces in play way beyond the current reality. One of my deeply aware allies sent me this today:
“I am on Book 5 of the Anastasia series (do you know these remarkable books?) and was reading this morning a passage on prophecy as an attempt to set the direction for future developments. I was struck by this sentence: ‘The more people believe in universal doom, the greater will be the number of thoughts attempting to outline the image and it will come to pass,’ so we need to start from faith in the future. This suggests that subtle activism is part of any strategy in building a movement.”
Granted damage that can’t be undone is occurring, but here we are, still breathing, so now what? My answer is to get humanity turned to the good. Get all hands on deck to come up with the best that can be done.
I suppose it has always been that when one has the temerity to look into the flaming cauldron and sees the truth he is not welcomed back with open arms...my social circle has disappeared over the last couple of decades for that reason. I'm really beginning to understand the persecution of soothsayers and witches much more intimately. Several brief conversations killers of the past few days was that if everything stopped today it would take a decade or more to just get lights on and the staff working that have been fired, just the nuts and bolts. The rest of the very reality in this post is beyond the attention span. This is where we seers burn and the crucifixes come out.
The 70 years of American rise and fall have directly corresponded to my lifetime. I was hoping for a quiet fade over the very few years I could expect but, alas...I am reminded of a chance encounter at a peak oil conference with an old classmate, an Episcopal minister, listening to my dark outlook, and his reply 'but what are the odds of being alive to see the end of the world!?' That thought has actually kept me going at times. Being an atheist I wasn't quite as joyful as he was....
"...but what are the odds of being alive to see the end of the world!?' This thought crosses my mind every so often. Is it a curse? Is it unfortunate to have deep empathy so you feel people's suffering worldwide? These are definitely "interesting times"!
The US Empire was ending either way. Trump just put his foot on the accelerator. Multipolar world incoming faster than expected, like everything else about collapse. The US will default on its debt, tell everyone to f off, and stop policing the oceans, spurring rapid deglobilisation as freights become uninsurable.
John Michael Greer’ prose is delicioualy blistering and his conjecturing interesting imho. Read ‘Descent’ (best audio narration ever btw) and Dark Age America.
Why would Trump do that? Unless he’s doing it for someone else or without realising it, it doesn’t make much sense to accelerate the decline. Also, his comments about expanding and getting other countries does not seem like he’s trying to put an end to it.
He’s not trying, he’s just doing it inadvertently due to his selfish goals, lack of human virtues, knowledge and understanding, ie total incompetence and ignorance
Donald and his class have decided this is a race to claim immunity from disaster by accumulation / wealth and control thus making them immune to the approaching clouds of unrest . They are giraffes in quick sand with a raft assuming oars and paddlers will float their way .
Living in a cave was a successful solution 200000 years ago . Might be again
Enjoy every day that feels normal. They are numbered. Two days, two weeks or two months? Certainly not two years.
This pretty much hits all the main points of what's happening right now with the US. The question you have to ask yourself is "why?"
Either the Trump Administration and everyone in it's "inner circle" is a complete idiot and actually believes that what they are doing will be popular and successful. So successful, that they are confident of victory in the midterm's.
OR.
They are acting on "privileged" information. They KNOW things about the true state of the world and are acting on that information.
For example, they aren't worried about the midterms because they don't expect to hold elections next year. Or rather, they don't expect to hold elections where it isn't preordained that the MAGAs win firm control of the House and Senate.
I'd say the odds are 50/50 that the US has "fixed" elections next year or is in a state of "National Emergency" and elections are suspended.
The MAGAts are also acting as if the REST OF THE WORLD has suddenly become meaningless. Again this could be sheer stupidity, arrogance, and incompetence BUT this is fucking FOREVER. We are pissing away an empire/brand that took over 70 years of effort to build.
Part of the reason the US has the biggest economy in the world is that so much of the world invests here. The global 1% do that because the US is seen as safe and stable. If that stability is called into question there WILL BE consequences.
SO.
Either the MAGAts are so incompetent that they are literally destroying the country out of stupidity. Or, they are acting on privileged information that indicates the world order is about to collapse and it's "every man for himself". And, I mean they think "collapse" is about to happen REALLY SOON.
What is said openly is generally worthless. The Elites NEVER tell the rest of us what's really going on. See, "The Crisis Report #20 – It’s not “crazy” to think that people who have access to privileged information will generally not tell you all they know. It happens all the time". https://richardcrim.substack.com/p/the-crisis-report-20
Based on the moves the players are making, I think the climate models are now predicting catastrophe over the next five years.
What is going on is that the "elite" see depopulation and harvesting newly accessible resources in the Arctic as the next step. Never mind accelerating the release of millions of years of frozen organic matter. With power comes delusion. The military has been planning for this for decades. The proof is all available.
https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/massive-alaska-willow-drilling-project
They are definitely making this happen, and I do believe any "coming back" from this will, even from what's been done so far, will not be what we think, but at the very least, we are at a point where we need to cut our losses, if we can.
Yes, and. First let me establish my agreement with all you wrote. However, the universe is bigger than our thoughts and there are forces in play way beyond the current reality. One of my deeply aware allies sent me this today:
“I am on Book 5 of the Anastasia series (do you know these remarkable books?) and was reading this morning a passage on prophecy as an attempt to set the direction for future developments. I was struck by this sentence: ‘The more people believe in universal doom, the greater will be the number of thoughts attempting to outline the image and it will come to pass,’ so we need to start from faith in the future. This suggests that subtle activism is part of any strategy in building a movement.”
Last week I wrote about 'subtle activism,' quoting David Spangler, one of the most inciteful people on the planet: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/what-wed-all-best-do
Granted damage that can’t be undone is occurring, but here we are, still breathing, so now what? My answer is to get humanity turned to the good. Get all hands on deck to come up with the best that can be done.
I suppose it has always been that when one has the temerity to look into the flaming cauldron and sees the truth he is not welcomed back with open arms...my social circle has disappeared over the last couple of decades for that reason. I'm really beginning to understand the persecution of soothsayers and witches much more intimately. Several brief conversations killers of the past few days was that if everything stopped today it would take a decade or more to just get lights on and the staff working that have been fired, just the nuts and bolts. The rest of the very reality in this post is beyond the attention span. This is where we seers burn and the crucifixes come out.
The 70 years of American rise and fall have directly corresponded to my lifetime. I was hoping for a quiet fade over the very few years I could expect but, alas...I am reminded of a chance encounter at a peak oil conference with an old classmate, an Episcopal minister, listening to my dark outlook, and his reply 'but what are the odds of being alive to see the end of the world!?' That thought has actually kept me going at times. Being an atheist I wasn't quite as joyful as he was....
Thank you to the author, and to you for posting.
"...but what are the odds of being alive to see the end of the world!?' This thought crosses my mind every so often. Is it a curse? Is it unfortunate to have deep empathy so you feel people's suffering worldwide? These are definitely "interesting times"!
Over the past few decades, those living in the western world got to experience peak and the subsequent collapse.
The US Empire was ending either way. Trump just put his foot on the accelerator. Multipolar world incoming faster than expected, like everything else about collapse. The US will default on its debt, tell everyone to f off, and stop policing the oceans, spurring rapid deglobilisation as freights become uninsurable.
John Michael Greer’ prose is delicioualy blistering and his conjecturing interesting imho. Read ‘Descent’ (best audio narration ever btw) and Dark Age America.
Why would Trump do that? Unless he’s doing it for someone else or without realising it, it doesn’t make much sense to accelerate the decline. Also, his comments about expanding and getting other countries does not seem like he’s trying to put an end to it.
He’s not trying, he’s just doing it inadvertently due to his selfish goals, lack of human virtues, knowledge and understanding, ie total incompetence and ignorance
Ah ok. I thought you meant it as if he is trying to do it on purpose 👍
Donald and his class have decided this is a race to claim immunity from disaster by accumulation / wealth and control thus making them immune to the approaching clouds of unrest . They are giraffes in quick sand with a raft assuming oars and paddlers will float their way .
Living in a cave was a successful solution 200000 years ago . Might be again
I see this circumstance taking 170 years to turn around. And what will the rest of the world look like if/when it does?
How about a lifeless burnt cinder in under 50 years?
Thanks for sharing. Linking this tomorrow @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Another person who thinks the US government did nothing bad before 2016
Good riddance