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In case you\u2019re worked up about the looming federal government shut-down, this is exactly how we\u2019re supposed to roll in the long emergency: everything organized at the gigantic scale is going to wobble and fail. It\u2019s nature\u2019s way of saying, \u201cget smaller, get realer, scale down, and get local.\u201d The catch is, we probably won\u2019t listen to nature. Instead, we\u2019ll just behave like bystanders and do nothing until the full force of failure is upon us, just as we\u2019re doing with climate change \u2014 the tragedy of the commons<\/em> at planetary scale.<\/p>\n

The failure of national party politics is deep and systemic, as you would expect from activities nurtured in a shit-hole called Washington, corruption being the manifestation of sepsis. The lethal vector of this illness is money. There\u2019s the money flowing into the \u201ccampaign funds\u201d (so-called) of congressmen and senators, of course, but there\u2019s also the \u201cmoney\u201d that is flowing in and out of the leviathan government \u2014 a whole lot of it is not really there. It\u2019s a figment of promises to pay back loans on top of a monumental heap of past promises that will never be kept. The threatened government shutdown is just a symptom of the illness: a society doing things out of scale, trying to run its excessive activities by check-kiting and accounting fraud. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n

Not the stock and bond markets, I\u2019m sure. Though\u2026 wait a minute\u2026 that hockey-stick surge in equities looks a little bit like the action of a thermometer measuring the rising body temperature of a very sick patient. From 25,000 to 26,000 on the Dow \u2014 in what? seven days? \u2014 is kind of like the flu victim going from 98.6 to 105 after onset. And we know what happens to humans up around the 105 Fahrenheit body temperature level: the brain starts to sputter and smoke. Soon, it\u2019s lights out and don\u2019t let your karma smack you on the butt going through the exit.<\/p>\n

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Fever Pitch In case you\u2019re worked up about the looming federal government shut-down, this is exactly how we\u2019re supposed to roll in the long emergency: everything organized at the gigantic scale is going to wobble and fail. It\u2019s nature\u2019s way of saying, \u201cget smaller, get realer, scale down, and get local.\u201d The catch is, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6,7],"tags":[141,14964,449,536,5024,18027,865],"class_list":["post-29937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-money","tag-us-equities","tag-us-federal-government-shutdown","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29938,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions\/29938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}