I really shouldn't even look at the news, it just upsets me.
You know, it's shit like this that really freaks me out. Short version: Americans have no savings and no retirement plans. Let me let you in on a not-so-secret secret: non-agrarian capitalism is a pyramid scheme. It works great when your population is exploding and your nation is expanding its business empires around the world, but the problem is, the world is all we've got, and it is finite in size and resources.
So the pyramid scheme does have an end and we may be nearly there. There are virtually no first world nations with a positive internal population growth. Even with immigration, the populations are aging fast and there are no resources to support them. The only thing left that can keep a large capitalist system going is war, and the only thing that achieves is let the people at the very top steal billions — and it's billions they'll need as hyperinflation decimates the savings of people who aren't either phenomenally wealthy or weirdos who have their money in gold and guns.
Should I even bother mentioning that the latest leaked Bush memo shows that before the Iraq war he'd announced they'd invade whether they found weapons or not (the whole time telling the American public he was doing everything he could to stop the war), and that if they had to they'd paint a US plane with United Nations insignia and try and goad Saddam into shooting it down? I couldn't make this shit up, it's pure evil, huge mass murder both of Americans and people around the world. But let's get back to money, because the fear driving those murders is the mad rush to scrape off the best resources as we head toward the end.
And the problem is that this financial collapse hits at almost exactly the same time as the peak oil crisis takes out our industry and supply lines, Islam and Christianity smash heads in an immense idiotic and pointless battle, the environment begins shutting down, and… and… and… Not that “Bird Flu” isn't manmade, but is it any wonder that top-ranked scientists are currently receiving standing ovations for proposing that we on purpose create a pandemic with the goal of killing 90% of the humans on the planet? Read that article, seriously.
What do we have to look forward to after all this?
Roving biker gangs preying on the Amish.
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