Look people I'm about to leave this world which I have inhabited for these last 67 years, and I'm here to tell you that shit is going off the rails, I am really deeply concerned.
There is a terrible reckoning dead ahead and it won't be any kind of replay of a known historical event - no cattle cars, no guillotines, no napalm. This is insidious and more global; lockdowns, financial larceny, pandemics, mass migrations and extinctions; Infrastructure and support systems overload, civil liberties extinction in the midst of civil rights rising.
I don't know what exactly collapse/implosion looks like but it's coming, and much faster than I ever expected. Systems are on the brink. I expect no return to 'normal'.
This ain't no disco, this ain't no party, this ain't no foolin' around
I'm not sure things are worse now than with the 60s race riots in terms of instability.
I think a big difference now is we don't have an enemy in the soviet union to unify us. And the people who want to turn us into another СССР are secure enough to be much more open about their intentions.
I want to stop comparing things - to the 60's, to cattle cars from WWII, guillotines from the French revolution, to napalm from the Vietnam war - those are not coming back.
This is a deep and abiding change that does not have the same trademarks as previous upheavals, We need to stop looking for those hallmarks and recognize this change as being totally different from what has come before in terms of overt brutality/vs. overt brainwashing and control.
This shit is real, right here right now and without warning, I'm expecting things to get worse at a moments' notice. Your life could blow up before your very eyes while we still argue about which side is right and which side is wrong.
You could be toast either way, that's what I'm sayin'. These are unprecedented times which could lead to a lot of hard times for a lot of people who still don't understand what a serious global/political/financial/biological corner we have wedged ourselves into.
I can appreciate the realization that this war (and I think we can call it one) cannot be measured by historical events. The information age was short-lived and got subverted to become the misinformation age - having noticed it years ago, I'm not surprised by how things have gotten bad (I did think it'd take another decade, though).
I can't bring myself to be afraid, however, because uncertain risk shouldn't be feared. If I were to fear uncertain risk, I'd never leave the house and still be afraid because it's very easy to break into my home and kill me. I'm just a little stupefied, and deeply concerned about the future of...everyone, I guess.
Possible solutions are looking very grim. What good is anything if a country isn't allowed to remove central banking or otherwise disengage from foreign manipulation?