A sadly somber post man - but I have hope! There are millions of people my age, millennials, that have kids and aren’t pieces of shit. Millions of people who see the issues of the country and are doing the best thing we can do: teach our kids better. A lot of the in between generation that is Gen X with the petulant adult blue-haired fragile children are not going to get their genes continued so that leaves opportunity for others. We are in a precarious situation for sure and completely by design but humans are a creative species and a crafty one. We can have this thing turned around with a lot of work and luck. What it’s going to take is people taking leadership roles and working to build the future we want to see. The people who have no skills need people to teach them so that it makes improvements. We can’t give up hope because that’s exactly what the assholes want. The destruction of hope is one of the primary tenets of psychological warfare.
Don’t give up hope man!
Well said! Do you believe in cycles theory? Lots of cycles, some longer term, some shorter. The most famous is the Strauss and Howe 70ish year cycle that resets during the 4th turning which we're in now. So we're pretty much guaranteed a few years at least of major upheaval death and destruction. The good news is that according to that theory, around 2030, we'll be entering another golden age of relative peace and never before seen prosperity. I'm looking forward to that. But there are other cycles, longer ones, and some say a few of those are coming to their crescendo at this point in time. If that's true, things could be very rough for a long time. Long story long, nobody really knows. I've completely lost hope in the United State government and believe that it needs to be completely eliminated. I still have hope in my local area, my neighbors, and my family. I'm doing everything I can to try to help the people close to me get through this time of troubles with minimal damage.
I haven’t heard of a formal cycles theory but I don’t doubt it. We could very well be headed for great technical break throughs - we just have to handle it well and not let a tiny group of crazy assholes control it all. I refer to it as a pendulum myself, where things ebb and flow like the up and down of a pendulum. We are hopefully at the peak of the bullshit arc and heading back down towards midline then up towards prosperity for a while.
Where I think we have gone astray is it’s gone so far from what the constitution was written for. There’s so much bloat and government corruption that it needs to be scaled back but not entirely destroyed. The WEF want it to be destroyed very much because that’s the last group that is armed by default. Once that’s gone, there’s no going back and that goes for everyone else in the world.
Good for you, it’s important to keep those around us in as good a shape as we can! I’ve got good neighbors and we try to keep our immediate group well informed and all that with what they should have around them. It’s the best we can do without going off the deep end and getting them to ignore us haha.
"We are hopefully at the peak of the bullshit arc" - Brother, I hope so! Great line. And I'm stealing it.