I too have been watching in horror for the past two decades as the former world, and America, not so much be overtaken as disintegrated.
The takeover was incredibly successful: they attacked everything on every front non-stop for decades. Being a country hobbled psychologically by 9/11 was the perfect atmosphere to inject this sort of Invasive rot.
But as long as Americans made money, we could surely rebound as a united nation, right?
Then the economy tanked, now two heavy blows to the nation in less than a decade. This also had a shattering effect on the upcoming generation, the Millenials, whose first part of the story was being raised in the best part of American history and now have spent their adulthood getting pummled from one crisis to the next so that we're now the largest working force but hold almost no wealth ourselves. Now heading into middle age, we're mostly abject failures due to having lived in a future nobody anticipated and abandoned by the Boomers, who kicked the rungs out and hoarded the wealth for themselves.
So where do we build now that our landscape has been decimated? Their scorched earth policy left nothing to rebuild that we will recognize. Where is our new world?
TakenusernameA is correct. Advancing is the correct option.
As I've said: building anti-parallel institutions, and taking control of governments to defund, demolish, and purge the institutions that do exist must be priority number one.
Political activity, particularly at low levels, is still useful. Beyond political activity is building institutional and social power, then using that to dismantle political power.
After 40+ years of retreat on all cultural fronts in my lifetime there aren't many hills left to retreat to anymore...
Then maybe its time to advance.
Advance to where?
I too have been watching in horror for the past two decades as the former world, and America, not so much be overtaken as disintegrated.
The takeover was incredibly successful: they attacked everything on every front non-stop for decades. Being a country hobbled psychologically by 9/11 was the perfect atmosphere to inject this sort of Invasive rot.
But as long as Americans made money, we could surely rebound as a united nation, right?
Then the economy tanked, now two heavy blows to the nation in less than a decade. This also had a shattering effect on the upcoming generation, the Millenials, whose first part of the story was being raised in the best part of American history and now have spent their adulthood getting pummled from one crisis to the next so that we're now the largest working force but hold almost no wealth ourselves. Now heading into middle age, we're mostly abject failures due to having lived in a future nobody anticipated and abandoned by the Boomers, who kicked the rungs out and hoarded the wealth for themselves.
So where do we build now that our landscape has been decimated? Their scorched earth policy left nothing to rebuild that we will recognize. Where is our new world?
TakenusernameA is correct. Advancing is the correct option.
As I've said: building anti-parallel institutions, and taking control of governments to defund, demolish, and purge the institutions that do exist must be priority number one.
Political activity, particularly at low levels, is still useful. Beyond political activity is building institutional and social power, then using that to dismantle political power.