http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=30453
Corporate greed, corruption, and the coming collapse
June 24, 2007
by: Mike Adams
The U.S. government, once crafted as a system that would serve the
interests of the people, has devolved into a system of plutocracy
where corporations control both the government and the people.
Virtually every government regulatory department, for example, is
now run by the corporations it is supposed to be regulating. Just
look at the FDA, USDA, FTC, FCC, NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
and most other government regulatory bodies and you'll find a room
full of politicians and bureaucrats who utterly disregard the People
while prioritizing the financial needs of influential corporations.
Our nation's policies on health, finances, agricultural, national
defense and even education are increasingly slanted towards enriching
the corporations, usually at the expense of the People. Even worse,
the People have come to fear their government here in the United States,
and any time a government gains so much power that the people begin to
fear it, the scenario is set for police state atrocities against the
citizens. In a healthy society, you see, the government fears the people,
and it's this fear of being replaced or kicked out of office that keeps
government bureaucrats in line. But in America, that's been lost, replaced
by a tyrannical system of government that treats the people like common
criminals. Don't believe me? Just try to board an airplane without being
detained and searched against your will. Try to bring a bottle of water on
an airplane and see how much "freedom" you still have left in America
today.
How did the corporations gain so much power over government and the
people? It's simple: Campaign finances. The corporations hire hoards of
lobbyists who dart in and out of lawmakers' offices in Washington, leaving
behind trails of cash and corruption. Most lawmakers hardly ever meet with
the actual people they claim to represent. Instead, they spend their time
cavorting with corporate rabblerousers who operate based on the simple
principle of greed. Think Enron, but times a thousand. That's who controls
Congress today.
To keep the People in line, public protests have been limited and outlawed
in many areas, where new fenced-in "free speech zones" have been set up to
force protestors to protest out of the way somewhere. (Note to all: If
free speech is limited to a "zone" then it isn't free speech at all!) At
every turn, the U.S. government seeks to marginalize the power of the
People and expand its own reach and power, usually at the behest of the
wealthy corporations pulling the strings backstage.
The natural cycle of collapse and rebirth
So where is it all heading? To a desperate place, unfortunately. It's a
natural cycle of nation states. Following abundance comes greed, then
corruption, then police state tyranny, then collapse. After the collapse
there's rebirth, reconstruction and a new cycle of abundance until the
whole thing repeats itself over and over again, one century after the
next. Read your world history to hear this same story repeated over at
least fifty empires that once existed on Earth. The American empire will
be no different: It will drown in its own greed and corruption, collapsing
into a state of moral and financial bankruptcy, and then will likely be
reborn as a series of smaller nation-states like the Washington / Oregon /
Idaho / Northern California region that has very different values and
interests than, say, the Texas region.
During all this, there will be lots of social unrest, poverty, personal
bankruptcy, police state arrests and perhaps even the widespread use of
detection camps to indefinitely hold troublemakers who dare to protest or
speak out against government corruption. This is what's coming for
America, and the interesting part is that almost nobody in America seems
to be able to anticipate this. Yet the writing is on the wall, and it's as
obvious as the dot-com crash was before 2000.
I publicly predicted the dot-com crash starting in 1998, and urged
everyone to get out of the market through 1999, 2000 and right up until
the bursting of the dot-com bubble in early 2001. All this time, nobody
listened. Virtually everyone was caught up in the insane illusion that we
would all get rich by selling each other pieces of paper with increasingly
large numbers written on them (those are the stock prices, you see).
Almost everybody was swept up by Groupthink, believing that the laws of
economics had changed forever. CNBC became the cheerleader of unbridled
greed, and brainwashed idiots at the American Enterprise Institute were
publishing books predicting a Dow of 36,000 that would create infinite
wealth requiring no effort or productive work.
Meanwhile, I was urging everyone to sell their stocks, which of course
made me look utterly insane given that everybody else in the world was
telling people to keep buying -- including all the stock brokers and
investment fund managers, who it turns out know almost nothing useful
about finances or investments and are just as easily swept up by
Groupthink as anything else. When the bubble finally burst, I was
completely out of the market and lost nothing. But many people I knew
lost big portions of their life savings.
Now, I told you that story to tell you this: What's coming in America's
future is going to be far, far worse than the dot-com fiasco. Imagine the
financial market breaking down, the U.S. government defaulting on its
debt, the dollar going through massive hyperinflation, wiping out the
value of the life savings of virtually all Americans. Think it can't
happen here? That's what the Groupthink thinks. But it will happen here,
and the massive corruption in our government is making sure of it.
Whatever dollars you have in the bank will, in a few years, become
virtually worthless. Hyperinflation is inevitable. Study the history of
Germany following World War I to gain additional insight on this topic.
Sacrificing the future for today's profit
When the corporations run a nation, that nation has no real future,
because corporations only think in terms of the next quarter, not the next
generation. Corporations will naturally do whatever they can to maximize
heir profits right now, including poisoning the children with vaccines,
poisoning the population with toxic food products, sacrificing the
financial future of the nation for short-term gain, destroying the
environment, ignoring the health care needs of the People, inciting war so
they can sell more profitable weapons to war-torn countries around the
world, and so on. Essentially, corporations will sell out the future for
higher profits today, and that's exactly what they've done in America.
America has no real future. Not a good one, anyway. I give the nation
anywhere from 5 to 25 years before it will self destruct under a mountain
of debt, disease and corruption. You can thank the corporations and
corrupt politicians for that. They've thrown away the dream of a nation
that was once great and could actually be great again, if not for the
greed.
My message to all U.S. citizens is to prepare yourself now for what's
coming. Get out of debt. Get healthy. Invest in your education and learn
some practical skills like gardening, bicycle repair or natural medicine.
Own some productive land and learn how to use it. Be near a source of
fresh water. When the oil runs out, and the fresh water tables are
drained, and the financial system collapses, and the real estate bubble
bursts, life is going to be a whole lot harder than it is today. Forget
about shopping malls, must-see TV and the latest fashions. Most families
are going to be struggling just to put food on the table.
This is all several years away, of course. And until then, most people are
going to continue the pursuit of even more debt and disease, oblivious to
the future that awaits them. A great book to read on how that future might
play out is The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. Or The Party's
Over: Oil, War and The Fate of Industrial Societies.
About the author: Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist with a mission to
teach personal and planetary health to the public He is a prolific writer
and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer
guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who
are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles.
Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or
promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In
2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a manufacturer of mercury-free, energy-
fficient LED lighting products that save electricity and help prevent
global warming. He's also the founder and CEO of a well known email mail
merge software developer whose software, 'Email Marketing Director,'
currently runs the NewsTarget email subscriptions. Adams is currently the
executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit,
and enjoys outdoor activities, nature photography, Pilates and adult
gymnastics.
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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=30453
Corporate greed, corruption, and the coming collapse
June 24, 2007
by: Mike Adams
The U.S. government, once crafted as a system that would serve the
interests of the people, has devolved into a system of plutocracy
where corporations control both the government and the people.
Virtually every government regulatory department, for example, is
now run by the corporations it is supposed to be regulating. Just
look at the FDA, USDA, FTC, FCC, NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
and most other government regulatory bodies and you'll find a room
full of politicians and bureaucrats who utterly disregard the People
while prioritizing the financial needs of influential corporations.
Our nation's policies on health, finances, agricultural, national
defense and even education are increasingly slanted towards enriching
the corporations, usually at the expense of the People. Even worse,
the People have come to fear their government here in the United States,
and any time a government gains so much power that the people begin to
fear it, the scenario is set for police state atrocities against the
citizens. In a healthy society, you see, the government fears the
people,
and it's this fear of being replaced or kicked out of office that keeps
government bureaucrats in line. But in America, that's been lost,
replaced
by a tyrannical system of government that treats the people like common
criminals. Don't believe me? Just try to board an airplane without being
detained and searched against your will. Try to bring a bottle of water
on
an airplane and see how much "freedom" you still have left in America
today.
How did the corporations gain so much power over government and the
people? It's simple: Campaign finances. The corporations hire hoards of
lobbyists who dart in and out of lawmakers' offices in Washington,
leaving
behind trails of cash and corruption. Most lawmakers hardly ever meet
with
the actual people they claim to represent. Instead, they spend their
time
cavorting with corporate rabblerousers who operate based on the simple
principle of greed. Think Enron, but times a thousand. That's who
controls
Congress today.
To keep the People in line, public protests have been limited and
outlawed
in many areas, where new fenced-in "free speech zones" have been set up
to
force protestors to protest out of the way somewhere. (Note to all: If
free speech is limited to a "zone" then it isn't free speech at all!) At
every turn, the U.S. government seeks to marginalize the power of the
People and expand its own reach and power, usually at the behest of the
wealthy corporations pulling the strings backstage.
The natural cycle of collapse and rebirth
So where is it all heading? To a desperate place, unfortunately. It's a
natural cycle of nation states. Following abundance comes greed, then
corruption, then police state tyranny, then collapse. After the collapse
there's rebirth, reconstruction and a new cycle of abundance until the
whole thing repeats itself over and over again, one century after the
next. Read your world history to hear this same story repeated over at
least fifty empires that once existed on Earth. The American empire will
be no different: It will drown in its own greed and corruption,
collapsing
into a state of moral and financial bankruptcy, and then will likely be
reborn as a series of smaller nation-states like the Washington / Oregon
/
Idaho / Northern California region that has very different values and
interests than, say, the Texas region.
During all this, there will be lots of social unrest, poverty, personal
bankruptcy, police state arrests and perhaps even the widespread use of
detection camps to indefinitely hold troublemakers who dare to protest
or
speak out against government corruption. This is what's coming for
America, and the interesting part is that almost nobody in America seems
to be able to anticipate this. Yet the writing is on the wall, and it's
as
obvious as the dot-com crash was before 2000.
I publicly predicted the dot-com crash starting in 1998, and urged
everyone to get out of the market through 1999, 2000 and right up until
the bursting of the dot-com bubble in early 2001. All this time, nobody
listened. Virtually everyone was caught up in the insane illusion that
we
would all get rich by selling each other pieces of paper with
increasingly
large numbers written on them (those are the stock prices, you see).
Almost everybody was swept up by Groupthink, believing that the laws of
economics had changed forever. CNBC became the cheerleader of unbridled
greed, and brainwashed idiots at the American Enterprise Institute were
publishing books predicting a Dow of 36,000 that would create infinite
wealth requiring no effort or productive work.
Meanwhile, I was urging everyone to sell their stocks, which of course
made me look utterly insane given that everybody else in the world was
telling people to keep buying -- including all the stock brokers and
investment fund managers, who it turns out know almost nothing useful
about finances or investments and are just as easily swept up by
Groupthink as anything else. When the bubble finally burst, I was
completely out of the market and lost nothing. But many people I knew
lost big portions of their life savings.
Now, I told you that story to tell you this: What's coming in America's
future is going to be far, far worse than the dot-com fiasco. Imagine
the
financial market breaking down, the U.S. government defaulting on its
debt, the dollar going through massive hyperinflation, wiping out the
value of the life savings of virtually all Americans. Think it can't
happen here? That's what the Groupthink thinks. But it will happen here,
and the massive corruption in our government is making sure of it.
Whatever dollars you have in the bank will, in a few years, become
virtually worthless. Hyperinflation is inevitable. Study the history of
Germany following World War I to gain additional insight on this topic.
Sacrificing the future for today's profit
When the corporations run a nation, that nation has no real future,
because corporations only think in terms of the next quarter, not the
next
generation. Corporations will naturally do whatever they can to maximize
heir profits right now, including poisoning the children with vaccines,
poisoning the population with toxic food products, sacrificing the
financial future of the nation for short-term gain, destroying the
environment, ignoring the health care needs of the People, inciting war
so
they can sell more profitable weapons to war-torn countries around the
world, and so on. Essentially, corporations will sell out the future for
higher profits today, and that's exactly what they've done in America.
America has no real future. Not a good one, anyway. I give the nation
anywhere from 5 to 25 years before it will self destruct under a
mountain
of debt, disease and corruption. You can thank the corporations and
corrupt politicians for that. They've thrown away the dream of a nation
that was once great and could actually be great again, if not for the
greed.
My message to all U.S. citizens is to prepare yourself now for what's
coming. Get out of debt. Get healthy. Invest in your education and learn
some practical skills like gardening, bicycle repair or natural
medicine.
Own some productive land and learn how to use it. Be near a source of
fresh water. When the oil runs out, and the fresh water tables are
drained, and the financial system collapses, and the real estate bubble
bursts, life is going to be a whole lot harder than it is today. Forget
about shopping malls, must-see TV and the latest fashions. Most families
are going to be struggling just to put food on the table.
This is all several years away, of course. And until then, most people
are
going to continue the pursuit of even more debt and disease, oblivious
to
the future that awaits them. A great book to read on how that future
might
play out is The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. Or The Party's
Over: Oil, War and The Fate of Industrial Societies.
About the author: Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist with a mission
to
teach personal and planetary health to the public He is a prolific
writer
and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and
consumer
guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who
are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles.
Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or
promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In
2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a manufacturer of mercury-free, energy-
fficient LED lighting products that save electricity and help prevent
global warming. He's also the founder and CEO of a well known email mail
merge software developer whose software, 'Email Marketing Director,'
currently runs the NewsTarget email subscriptions. Adams is currently
the
executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3
non-profit,
and enjoys outdoor activities, nature photography, Pilates and adult
gymnastics.
Yeah, I've heard all this many times before, Perseid...and for the largest
part of it, I firmly believe it.
Yet, the author sidesteps (like so many have done) the issue of the
"legitimacy" of a species that destroys its own, and all living things
around it, and repeats this behaviour. There is no compelling reason to
think that our misbehaviour will make a dramatic turnaround with a
radically different system (or even a lack of any system). Generally,
we're more likely to repeat our wretched self-defeating behaviour until
the species' bitter end. Legitimately, do we have the right to continue on
so destructively without a sea-change in our negative behaviour, our
"darkside"? (And how might that happen??) Does it make any "sense" to
think so much about how each of us will survive the collapse of
interdependence or codependence of a system -- even replacing it with
total independence if that is realistic (which I have grave doubts) -- and
yet have nothing to look forward to but an eventual regeneration of a
system that is ultimately corrupted again...a cycle of futility??
Not many want to have the body of their predictive argument reach into
that area far, although the author admits we just keep repeating our
self-defeating misbehaviour, collapsing one system after another.
I suppose taking this "cycle of futility" to its farthest philosophical
borders would be to painfully admit we're...doomed as a species. That
conclusion or theory wouldn't sit well with our great drive to survive all
adversity at any cost, would it? Or, the feeling by so many of the
"manifest destiny" or "specialness" of this species under God's mysterious
Plan in the infinite, supposedly lonely universe.
The strange mish-mashing of self-reliance and the admittance of a
self-destructive cycle comes forth in many such "doomsday" discourses like
this, and I've certainly read a bevy of 'em for decades. How close are we
to the author's future scenario? Well, it always seems, over the decades,
much closer at hand than it turns out. Obviously, we're still suffering
under a tyrannical, greedy, war-like, self-centered, narcissistic
system/culture that has outlasted many deadlines of predicted collapse.
However, I'm well aware that the deterioration, overall, is continuing to
deepen. Socially, politically, morally, environmentally...our civilization
creeps toward ultimate catastrophe. Sure, unforeseen events could
accelerate the decline at any moment. And probably too much narrowed-down
hope is expressed for a worthless leadership to change over, without the
stark realization of the corruptiveness, deception, manipulation that
great power tends to engender. Getting rid of a set of scoundrels feels
good, to those sick of their shenanigans, but is it not the result of a
continuation of a cycle of abusing power for the benefit of a few, and to
the great detriment of the many?
How many zillions more antidepressant, tranquilizing and sleeping pills
will be consumed by jittery, disturbed Americans before the dreaded end
comes? Now, there's a part of our future that could turn a tidy profit for
your investment, before the money itself becomes worthless. LOL!
Doc :))~
(Stevie will be giving in to his usual psychotic urge to get on his
cheerleading nationalistic stump again after being terribly irritated by
another "America hater." LOL!!! I can hear it now, "Sure, we've got some
real problems, but how'dya like to live in Cuba, Docko?")
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24 Jun 2007 09:55:27 PM |
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"Perseid" <eidpers@anti-spam.comcast.net> wrote in message
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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=
30453
Corporate greed, corruption, and the coming collapse
June 24, 2007
by: Mike Adams
The U.S. government, once crafted as a system that would serve the
interests of the people, has devolved into a system of plutocracy
where corporations control both the government and the people.
Virtually every government regulatory department, for example, is
now run by the corporations it is supposed to be regulating. Just
look at the FDA, USDA, FTC, FCC, NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
and most other government regulatory bodies and you'll find a room
full of politicians and bureaucrats who utterly disregard the People
while prioritizing the financial needs of influential corporations.
Our nation's policies on health, finances, agricultural, national
defense and even education are increasingly slanted towards enriching
the corporations, usually at the expense of the People. Even worse,
the People have come to fear their government here in the United
States,
and any time a government gains so much power that the people begin to
fear it, the scenario is set for police state atrocities against the
citizens. In a healthy society, you see, the government fears the
people,
and it's this fear of being replaced or kicked out of office that keeps
government bureaucrats in line. But in America, that's been lost,
replaced
by a tyrannical system of government that treats the people like common
criminals. Don't believe me? Just try to board an airplane without
being
detained and searched against your will. Try to bring a bottle of water
on
an airplane and see how much "freedom" you still have left in America
today.
How did the corporations gain so much power over government and the
people? It's simple: Campaign finances. The corporations hire hoards of
lobbyists who dart in and out of lawmakers' offices in Washington,
leaving
behind trails of cash and corruption. Most lawmakers hardly ever meet
with
the actual people they claim to represent. Instead, they spend their
time
cavorting with corporate rabblerousers who operate based on the simple
principle of greed. Think Enron, but times a thousand. That's who
controls
Congress today.
To keep the People in line, public protests have been limited and
outlawed
in many areas, where new fenced-in "free speech zones" have been set up
to
force protestors to protest out of the way somewhere. (Note to all: If
free speech is limited to a "zone" then it isn't free speech at all!)
At
every turn, the U.S. government seeks to marginalize the power of the
People and expand its own reach and power, usually at the behest of the
wealthy corporations pulling the strings backstage.
The natural cycle of collapse and rebirth
So where is it all heading? To a desperate place, unfortunately. It's a
natural cycle of nation states. Following abundance comes greed, then
corruption, then police state tyranny, then collapse. After the
collapse
there's rebirth, reconstruction and a new cycle of abundance until the
whole thing repeats itself over and over again, one century after the
next. Read your world history to hear this same story repeated over at
least fifty empires that once existed on Earth. The American empire
will
be no different: It will drown in its own greed and corruption,
collapsing
into a state of moral and financial bankruptcy, and then will likely be
reborn as a series of smaller nation-states like the Washington /
Oregon
/
Idaho / Northern California region that has very different values and
interests than, say, the Texas region.
During all this, there will be lots of social unrest, poverty, personal
bankruptcy, police state arrests and perhaps even the widespread use of
detection camps to indefinitely hold troublemakers who dare to protest
or
speak out against government corruption. This is what's coming for
America, and the interesting part is that almost nobody in America
seems
to be able to anticipate this. Yet the writing is on the wall, and it's
as
obvious as the dot-com crash was before 2000.
I publicly predicted the dot-com crash starting in 1998, and urged
everyone to get out of the market through 1999, 2000 and right up until
the bursting of the dot-com bubble in early 2001. All this time, nobody
listened. Virtually everyone was caught up in the insane illusion that
we
would all get rich by selling each other pieces of paper with
increasingly
large numbers written on them (those are the stock prices, you see).
Almost everybody was swept up by Groupthink, believing that the laws of
economics had changed forever. CNBC became the cheerleader of unbridled
greed, and brainwashed idiots at the American Enterprise Institute were
publishing books predicting a Dow of 36,000 that would create infinite
wealth requiring no effort or productive work.
Meanwhile, I was urging everyone to sell their stocks, which of course
made me look utterly insane given that everybody else in the world was
telling people to keep buying -- including all the stock brokers and
investment fund managers, who it turns out know almost nothing useful
about finances or investments and are just as easily swept up by
Groupthink as anything else. When the bubble finally burst, I was
completely out of the market and lost nothing. But many people I knew
lost big portions of their life savings.
Now, I told you that story to tell you this: What's coming in America's
future is going to be far, far worse than the dot-com fiasco. Imagine
the
financial market breaking down, the U.S. government defaulting on its
debt, the dollar going through massive hyperinflation, wiping out the
value of the life savings of virtually all Americans. Think it can't
happen here? That's what the Groupthink thinks. But it will happen
here,
and the massive corruption in our government is making sure of it.
Whatever dollars you have in the bank will, in a few years, become
virtually worthless. Hyperinflation is inevitable. Study the history of
Germany following World War I to gain additional insight on this topic.
Sacrificing the future for today's profit
When the corporations run a nation, that nation has no real future,
because corporations only think in terms of the next quarter, not the
next
generation. Corporations will naturally do whatever they can to
maximize
heir profits right now, including poisoning the children with vaccines,
poisoning the population with toxic food products, sacrificing the
financial future of the nation for short-term gain, destroying the
environment, ignoring the health care needs of the People, inciting war
so
they can sell more profitable weapons to war-torn countries around the
world, and so on. Essentially, corporations will sell out the future
for
higher profits today, and that's exactly what they've done in America.
America has no real future. Not a good one, anyway. I give the nation
anywhere from 5 to 25 years before it will self destruct under a
mountain
of debt, disease and corruption. You can thank the corporations and
corrupt politicians for that. They've thrown away the dream of a nation
that was once great and could actually be great again, if not for the
greed.
My message to all U.S. citizens is to prepare yourself now for what's
coming. Get out of debt. Get healthy. Invest in your education and
learn
some practical skills like gardening, bicycle repair or natural
medicine.
Own some productive land and learn how to use it. Be near a source of
fresh water. When the oil runs out, and the fresh water tables are
drained, and the financial system collapses, and the real estate bubble
bursts, life is going to be a whole lot harder than it is today. Forget
about shopping malls, must-see TV and the latest fashions. Most
families
are going to be struggling just to put food on the table.
This is all several years away, of course. And until then, most people
are
going to continue the pursuit of even more debt and disease, oblivious
to
the future that awaits them. A great book to read on how that future
might
play out is The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. Or The Party's
Over: Oil, War and The Fate of Industrial Societies.
About the author: Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist with a mission
to
teach personal and planetary health to the public He is a prolific
writer
and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and
consumer
guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who
are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles.
Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or
promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products.
In
2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a manufacturer of mercury-free, energy-
fficient LED lighting products that save electricity and help prevent
global warming. He's also the founder and CEO of a well known email
mail
merge software developer whose software, 'Email Marketing Director,'
currently runs the NewsTarget email subscriptions. Adams is currently
the
executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3
non-profit,
and enjoys outdoor activities, nature photography, Pilates and adult
gymnastics.
Yeah, I've heard all this many times before, Perseid...and for the
largest
part of it, I firmly believe it.
Yet, the author sidesteps (like so many have done) the issue of the
"legitimacy" of a species that destroys its own, and all living things
around it, and repeats this behaviour. There is no compelling reason to
think that our misbehaviour will make a dramatic turnaround with a
radically different system (or even a lack of any system). Generally,
we're more likely to repeat our wretched self-defeating behaviour until
the species' bitter end. Legitimately, do we have the right to continue
on
so destructively without a sea-change in our negative behaviour, our
"darkside"? (And how might that happen??) Does it make any "sense" to
think so much about how each of us will survive the collapse of
interdependence or codependence of a system -- even replacing it with
total independence if that is realistic (which I have grave doubts) --
and
yet have nothing to look forward to but an eventual regeneration of a
system that is ultimately corrupted again...a cycle of futility??
Not many want to have the body of their predictive argument reach into
that area far, although the author admits we just keep repeating our
self-defeating misbehaviour, collapsing one system after another.
I suppose taking this "cycle of futility" to its farthest philosophical
borders would be to painfully admit we're...doomed as a species. That
conclusion or theory wouldn't sit well with our great drive to survive
all
adversity at any cost, would it? Or, the feeling by so many of the
"manifest destiny" or "specialness" of this species under God's
mysterious
Plan in the infinite, supposedly lonely universe.
The strange mish-mashing of self-reliance and the admittance of a
self-destructive cycle comes forth in many such "doomsday" discourses
like
this, and I've certainly read a bevy of 'em for decades. How close are
we
to the author's future scenario? Well, it always seems, over the
decades,
much closer at hand than it turns out.
You'll know it's the turning point when the elites' own goals
are the very cause of their decline.. when they have become
greedy enough that no one else is allowed to prosper and the
economy stagnates and declines.. their own greed has caused
their own demise.
Watch the earnings of the mass warehousing retailers like Walmart,
Target, Kmart, Sears. When the low and middle-class don't have enough
disposable income to buy the cheapest stuff out there, then you'll
know we're close to the edge.
Obviously, we're still suffering
under a tyrannical, greedy, war-like, self-centered, narcissistic
system/culture that has outlasted many deadlines of predicted collapse.
However, I'm well aware that the deterioration, overall, is continuing
to
deepen. Socially, politically, morally, environmentally...our
civilization
creeps toward ultimate catastrophe. Sure, unforeseen events could
accelerate the decline at any moment. And probably too much narrowed-
down
hope is expressed for a worthless leadership to change over, without the
stark realization of the corruptiveness, deception, manipulation that
great power tends to engender. Getting rid of a set of scoundrels feels
good, to those sick of their shenanigans, but is it not the result of a
continuation of a cycle of abusing power for the benefit of a few, and
to
the great detriment of the many?
How many zillions more antidepressant, tranquilizing and sleeping pills
will be consumed by jittery, disturbed Americans before the dreaded end
comes? Now, there's a part of our future that could turn a tidy profit
for
your investment, before the money itself becomes worthless. LOL!
Doc :))~
(Stevie will be giving in to his usual psychotic urge to get on his
cheerleading nationalistic stump again after being terribly irritated by
another "America hater." LOL!!! I can hear it now, "Sure, we've got some
real problems, but how'dya like to live in Cuba, Docko?")
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