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Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse
Suppressing Dissent Guarantees Disorder and Collapse The frantic efforts of am exploitive elite to eliminate dissent only accelerates the regime’s path to collapse. Regimes that are losing public support always make the same mistake: rather than fix the source of the loss of public trust–the few enriching themselves at the expense of the many– the regime […]
Costs Are Spiraling Out of Control
Costs Are Spiraling Out of Control And how do we pay for these spiraling out of control costs? By borrowing more, of course. If we had to choose one “big picture” reason why the vast majority of households are losing ground, it would be: the costs of essentials are spiraling out of control. I’ve often […]
Crunchtime: When Events Outrun Plan B
Crunchtime: When Events Outrun Plan B Not only will events outrun Plan B, they’ll also outrun Plans C and D. We all know what Plan B is: our pre-planned response to the emergence of risk. Plan B is for risks that can be anticipated, regular but unpredictable events such tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. In the human sphere, risks that […]
We Can Only Choose One: Our National Economy or Globalization
We Can Only Choose One: Our National Economy or Globalization The servitude of society to a globalized economy is generating extremes of insecurity, powerlessness and inequality. Does our economy serve our society, or does our society serve our economy, and by extension, those few who extract most of the economic benefits? It’s a question worth asking, […]
Political and Social Conflict Is Accelerating: Here’s Why
Political and Social Conflict Is Accelerating: Here’s Why All the status quo “fixes” only hasten the collapse of the status quo. That economic, social and political conflict is accelerating is self-evident. What’s open to debate are the core drivers of conflict / disorder /unraveling. Here’s the core self-reinforcing dynamic in my view: 1. The status quo […]
Darn, This Is Inconvenient: Apple Is Destroying the Planet to Maximize Profits
Darn, This Is Inconvenient: Apple Is Destroying the Planet to Maximize Profits Stripmining the planet to maximize profits isn’t progressive or renewable–it’s just exploitive and destructive. How do we describe the finding that the planet’s most widely-owned super-corporation is destroying the planet to maximize its smartphone sales and profits? Shall we start with “inconvenient?” Yes, we’re […]
Political and Social Conflict Is Accelerating: Here’s Why
Political and Social Conflict Is Accelerating: Here’s Why All the status quo “fixes” only hasten the collapse of the status quo. That economic, social and political conflict is accelerating is self-evident. What’s open to debate are the core drivers of conflict / disorder /unraveling. Here’s the core self-reinforcing dynamic in my view: 1. The status quo […]
If Not-QE Is QE, then is Not-a-Blowoff-Top a Blowoff Top?
If Not-QE Is QE, then is Not-a-Blowoff-Top a Blowoff Top? Can $300 billion, or $600 billion, or even $1 trillion continue to prop up an increasingly risk-riddled, fragile $330 trillion global bubble in overvalued assets? When is “Not-QE” QE? When Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell declares QE is not QE. We can constructively recall the story […]
What We’ve Lost
What We’ve Lost This is only a partial list of what we’ve lost to globalism, cheap credit and the Tyranny of Price which generates the Landfill Economy. A documentary on the decline of small farms and the rural economy in France highlights what we’ve lost in the decades-long rush to globalize and financialize everything on […]
Economic Decay Leads to Social and Political Decay
Economic Decay Leads to Social and Political Decay If we want to make real progress, we have to properly diagnose the structural sources of the rot that is spreading quickly into every nook and cranny of the society and culture. It seems my rant yesterday (Let Me Know When It’s Over) upset a lot of people, many […]
Democracy Is Now a Hindrance to the Imperial State
Democracy Is Now a Hindrance to the Imperial State Democracy is the coat of paint applied for PR purposes to the Imperial State. If we step back from the histrionics of impeachment and indeed, the past four years of political circus, we have to wonder if America’s democracy is little more than an elaborate simulation, a […]
So Sorry, Your Karma Ran Over Your Dogma
So Sorry, Your Karma Ran Over Your Dogma When dogmas lose their grip on believers, they collapse in spectacular fashion. Karma covers a lot of ground, but it boils down to consequences: consequences not just from your actions but from your convictions, schemes, obsessions, and yes, dogmas. The reason why Karma runs over Dogma is that nobody […]
The Black Swan Is a Drone
The Black Swan Is a Drone What was “possible” yesterday is now a low-cost proven capability, and the consequences are far from predictable. Predictably, the mainstream media is serving up heaping portions of reassurances that the drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities are no big deal and full production will resume shortly. The obvious goal […]
Will Everything Change in 2020-2025 or Will Nothing Change? Any domino-like expanding crisis will unfold in a status quo lacking any coherent response. Longtime readers know I’ve often referenced The Fourth Turning, the book that makes the case for an 80-year cycle of existential crisis in U.S. history. The first crisis was the constitutional process (1781) following […]
