{"id":65901,"date":"2023-10-09T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65901"},"modified":"2023-10-09T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:41:27","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-cliv-overreach-and-diminishing-returns-contributing-to-complex-society-collapse-for-10000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65901","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIV–Overreach And Diminishing Returns: Contributing To Complex Society Collapse For 10,000 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Mexico (1988). Photo by\u00a0author.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overreach And Diminishing Returns: Contributing To Complex Society Collapse For 10,000 Years<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s very brief Contemplation is my comment on The Honest Sorcerer\u2019s latest piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler stated it so clearly in his treatise on war some 100 years ago. War is never about the narratives weaved by our ruling caste.<\/p>\n

As he argued: \u201cWar is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses\u2026<\/p>\n

I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

We learn almost nothing from history; are caught up in collective narcissism and hubris; and, are led by a socio-\/psycho-pathic ruling elite that are only too willing and able to sacrifice as many pawns as possible to maintain their control of the wealth-generation\/-extraction systems that provide their revenue streams and thus power and prestige.<\/p>\n

And given our species\u2019 proclivity to defer to \u2018authority\u2019 figures and adhere to their self-serving stories (as well as their influence over the media and the political, judicial, and financial systems), the significant majority are blind to it all and cheer the insanity on\u200a\u2014\u200athe elite leveraging our tribal sense of \u2018patriotism\u2019.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the whole surplus energy decline predicament that has been kept almost completely behind the curtains as the snake oil salesmen weave a tale about a \u2018renewable\u2019 energy transition\u2026is it really any wonder that the entire Middle East is a geopolitical hot spot?<\/p>\n

As I stated on another\u2019s Facebook Post about this entire geopolitical morass: Overreach and diminishing returns\u2026contributing to complex society collapse for 10,000 years.<\/p>\n

Intelligent species, just not very wise despite its self-imposed moniker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIV Mexico (1988). Photo by\u00a0author. Overreach And Diminishing Returns: Contributing To Complex Society Collapse For 10,000 Years Today\u2019s very brief Contemplation is my comment on The Honest Sorcerer\u2019s latest piece. U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler stated it so clearly in his treatise on war some 100 years ago. War […]<\/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":[2,3,4,5,6,7],"tags":[150,24513,33965,209,11440,5638,862],"class_list":["post-65901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-complex-society","tag-complex-society-collapse","tag-diminishing-returns","tag-overreach","tag-smedley-butler","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65901","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=65901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65902,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65901\/revisions\/65902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}