{"id":66073,"date":"2023-11-01T05:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66073"},"modified":"2023-11-01T05:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:45:35","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-clix-ruling-elite-rackets-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66073","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh\u00a0CLIX–Ruling Elite Rackets Everywhere…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh\u00a0CLIX<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Mexico (1988). Photo by\u00a0author.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ruling Elite Rackets Everywhere…<\/strong><\/p>\n

My very brief comment on The Honest Sorcerer\u2019s latest article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Throw on top of our energy predicament the overarching predicament of ecological overshoot and the situation is even more explosive.<\/p>\n

And I can\u2019t help but think that since everything in our world has become a racket for our ruling sociopaths in one way or another, the dominoes will fall even more quickly\u200a\u2014\u200aespecially for the masses of non-elite in our world.<\/p>\n

I expect even more expansive surveillance, narrative management\/control, authoritariansim<\/a>, \u2018othering\u2019, price inflation\u00a0, \u2018austerity\u2019, divisive politics, civil disobedience, denial\/bargaining, breakdown of rule of law, sociobehavioural control<\/a>, economic manipulation<\/a>, geopolitical manoeuvring and clashes<\/a>, etc., etc., as the-powers-that-be scramble to maintain their tenuous grip on control and sustain the various wealth-generation\/-extraction systems that provide their revenue streams and thus power and prestige.<\/p>\n

Homo sapiens have learned nothing from all the previous trials in large, complex societies and will indubitably repeat the same failed approaches to holding the centre that so-called \u2018leaders\u2019 have attempted repeatedly before our current experiment. What will be will be with respect to the insane and suicidal actions\/policies of the ruling elite.<\/p>\n

Intelligent creatures, just not too wise.<\/p>\n

Personal\/community \u2018energies\u2019 are best directed towards relocalising as much as possible in the limited time available to us, but especially food production, potable water procurement, and regional shelter needs. Any steps towards self-sufficiency in these basic needs will help (marginally) to mitigate the \u2018collapse\u2019 for some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh\u00a0CLIX Mexico (1988). Photo by\u00a0author. Ruling Elite Rackets Everywhere… My very brief comment on The Honest Sorcerer\u2019s latest article: Throw on top of our energy predicament the overarching predicament of ecological overshoot and the situation is even more explosive. And I can\u2019t help but think that since everything in our world has […]<\/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":[150,30371,22093,7136,6979,5833,30370,33947],"class_list":["post-66073","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-collapse-cometh","tag-ecological-overshoot","tag-racket","tag-ruling-elite","tag-steve-bull","tag-todays-contemplation","tag-todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66073","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=66073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66074,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66073\/revisions\/66074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}