As we devolve from a republic dependent on the rule of law, which requires an absence of corruption, into a communistic rule of man, or better addressed as authoritarian rule, we are watching the de-industrialization of the United States.
Sitting around waiting for the Apocalypse pretty much describes the feeling; you prepare yourself; you prepare your family, you make the friends you can make, and you pray. But DAMN IT, it still feels pathologically passive, as we all wait for the next Big Surprise to land on us.
Not for a second do I believe this is accidental - quite the contrary. There are surely 'people' - simulacra has become new favorite descriptor - who want things to feel just this way for John Q and the rest of the public. Yet we all know there certainly is 'another thing coming.'
So many people have half-awakened, but all of us are so entrenched in the economic goo on the System web we can't get free. Yet when 'it' comes, it will likely be a 'pass-fail' exercise in survival, and only the Almighty knows if any man's preparations and spirit are good enough.
But during the next lock down or business destruction, inoculation may work another way, meaning total destruction of small business was not achieved the first time, so many, many more people are fully mistrustful of 'them.' - in other words, some will not march into extinction.
Next time we need to boldy go where no 'normie' has gone before: totally boycott big business, sports, and everything else 'big' that excretes goo on the web and work ONLY with each other, for as long as it takes.
Yes and our Achilles. "Covid" saw our non-compliance and raised us with helicopter money and 'keep your jobs' and 'get your feed delivered to your home'.
Then the mashing of teeth over "inflation". Same goes for the cure for the last melt down in 08 which they turned into an even bigger credit melt-up which spawned entire industries of value extraction where value creation once stood. That neighbors airBNB is a home not occupied by a young family. But mug gains come first.
In the commons it seems most have already forgotten how much was destroyed even just a couple years ago. What I lost will never be rebuilt. Nor will my productivity and propensity to create surplus, take rational/quantifiable risks with time or capital, or trust my fellow man to serve a purpose higher than his own immediate needs be deployed as it once was because all systems are converged into the System and it is all based on lies.
When we "de-industrialized" we also hypothecated all social capital and goodwill to the machine. Our biggest weapon may be how we "vote with our dollars", but their biggest weapon is that they have convinced us that who we are as a people are "consumers" who must always spend because all our rights reside in the rules of commerce. A labyrinth. A briar patch that we keep throwing them back into.
Something deeper must break. Until then we are stuck in the interregnum of voting harder so they have to steal harder because we are consumers of the delusions of democracy. Arguing amongst ourselves of whether the magic is in our dirt or in our documents.
DV: I don't believe in consumerism. I don't believe anything the Bastards tell me. As for money, some states are finally going to their own gold and silver currencies.
People can fight back. All of our problems are man-made. Man can fix them.
They actually don't care whether we buy their products or not, it's gone beyond that. Sure Bud Light took a hit, and some others, but I doubt this will have any real impact on the situation, and besides, we don't have ten years for this to really make a difference, we're on the lip of the precipice right now. Look at the vile Disney, they keep losing money, but they don't care, the agenda is more important than shekels.
Gabby: I use cash whenever possible. This really pisses the Bastards off. That is one form of resistance they do care about. That is why they want to outlaw cash.
So do I , or a debit card. I'm paying off my credit cards right now, and I'm paying off the second on tomorrow. Did you ever see Austin Carstens, the Mexican ogre, pontificate about how he objects to us peons using cash?
Probably a lot of people aren't going to like this comment, but there was only one politician who defended his people in the last hundred years, that much reviled and lied about man from Germany. Oh, I'll vote for Trump, although I pretty much despise him, but even if he's elected I don't know if the tsunami of violence and destruction can be prevented.
Sitting around waiting for the Apocalypse pretty much describes the feeling; you prepare yourself; you prepare your family, you make the friends you can make, and you pray. But DAMN IT, it still feels pathologically passive, as we all wait for the next Big Surprise to land on us.
Not for a second do I believe this is accidental - quite the contrary. There are surely 'people' - simulacra has become new favorite descriptor - who want things to feel just this way for John Q and the rest of the public. Yet we all know there certainly is 'another thing coming.'
So many people have half-awakened, but all of us are so entrenched in the economic goo on the System web we can't get free. Yet when 'it' comes, it will likely be a 'pass-fail' exercise in survival, and only the Almighty knows if any man's preparations and spirit are good enough.
But during the next lock down or business destruction, inoculation may work another way, meaning total destruction of small business was not achieved the first time, so many, many more people are fully mistrustful of 'them.' - in other words, some will not march into extinction.
Next time we need to boldy go where no 'normie' has gone before: totally boycott big business, sports, and everything else 'big' that excretes goo on the web and work ONLY with each other, for as long as it takes.
GG: Our wallets are our biggest weapons. That and non-compliance with the bullshit edicts from on high.
Yes and our Achilles. "Covid" saw our non-compliance and raised us with helicopter money and 'keep your jobs' and 'get your feed delivered to your home'.
Then the mashing of teeth over "inflation". Same goes for the cure for the last melt down in 08 which they turned into an even bigger credit melt-up which spawned entire industries of value extraction where value creation once stood. That neighbors airBNB is a home not occupied by a young family. But mug gains come first.
In the commons it seems most have already forgotten how much was destroyed even just a couple years ago. What I lost will never be rebuilt. Nor will my productivity and propensity to create surplus, take rational/quantifiable risks with time or capital, or trust my fellow man to serve a purpose higher than his own immediate needs be deployed as it once was because all systems are converged into the System and it is all based on lies.
When we "de-industrialized" we also hypothecated all social capital and goodwill to the machine. Our biggest weapon may be how we "vote with our dollars", but their biggest weapon is that they have convinced us that who we are as a people are "consumers" who must always spend because all our rights reside in the rules of commerce. A labyrinth. A briar patch that we keep throwing them back into.
Something deeper must break. Until then we are stuck in the interregnum of voting harder so they have to steal harder because we are consumers of the delusions of democracy. Arguing amongst ourselves of whether the magic is in our dirt or in our documents.
DV: I don't believe in consumerism. I don't believe anything the Bastards tell me. As for money, some states are finally going to their own gold and silver currencies.
People can fight back. All of our problems are man-made. Man can fix them.
Don't give up.
They actually don't care whether we buy their products or not, it's gone beyond that. Sure Bud Light took a hit, and some others, but I doubt this will have any real impact on the situation, and besides, we don't have ten years for this to really make a difference, we're on the lip of the precipice right now. Look at the vile Disney, they keep losing money, but they don't care, the agenda is more important than shekels.
Gabby: I use cash whenever possible. This really pisses the Bastards off. That is one form of resistance they do care about. That is why they want to outlaw cash.
So do I , or a debit card. I'm paying off my credit cards right now, and I'm paying off the second on tomorrow. Did you ever see Austin Carstens, the Mexican ogre, pontificate about how he objects to us peons using cash?
Gabby: You are smart. Yes! I have seen that Carstens Canker Sore of Burrito Protoplasm.
Good way to describe that unclean thing.
Cash is king.
Vital and timely post. Thanks.
Great article. Thanks!
Probably a lot of people aren't going to like this comment, but there was only one politician who defended his people in the last hundred years, that much reviled and lied about man from Germany. Oh, I'll vote for Trump, although I pretty much despise him, but even if he's elected I don't know if the tsunami of violence and destruction can be prevented.