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Title: The Grand American Collapse Approacheth
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URL Source: http://russia-insider.com/en/politi ... n-collapse-approacheth/ri20456
Published: Jul 22, 2017
Author: James Howard Kunstler
Post Date: 2017-07-22 08:48:37 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: None
Views: 457
Comments: 6

RI... "To me, ... it’s looking more and more like the Salem Witch Frenzy meets the French Revolution with a spin of quantum confusion on top."

The author is a prominent American social critic, blogger, and podcaster. He is known for, among other things, a series of science fiction novels describing life after the collapse of modern society, an event which he believes is quite possible, as you can tell from this article. He has a new novel out about the counter-culture movement in the late '60s. If you like this author's work, please consider supporting him on Patreon.

Thanks to the author for pointing out this important point - 18% of the US economy is complete BS, consisting basically of 'health care racketeering.'

For all his blunders and stumbles in his first half-year as President (cough cough), Donald Trump seems to have more lives than Schrödinger’s Cat. Or maybe it just seems that way. Or maybe he isn’t really there at all (like the news these days). Yes, things are passing strange in the world’s greatest democracy these days. To me, seeing the thing through an historical lens, it’s looking more and more like the Salem Witch Frenzy meets the French Revolution with a spin of quantum confusion on top. Right now we’re in the first phase, sheer political lunacy. Beliefs have become ungrounded from the facts of life. The guy whom fate or a prankish deity put in the White House doesn’t even fit the template of the world’s most infamous heads-of-state. I’m sorry to dredge up old Adolf, but really, Hitler himself seemed to have a much firmer idea about what he was doing than Trump does.

The ObamaCare reform fiasco looks like a tipping point toward a strain of toxic political paralysis that might literally kill the government as we’ve known it. Over the many months of debate, congress never even got around to raising the salient issue: that the 18-or-so-percent of the economy “health care” represents consists largely of outright racketeering. Well, they sure blew that one. The major parties are disintegrating before our eyes, despite the seeming sense of decorum that senators present on TV. The public may seem to be mentally on vacation, snoozing on the beach in the midsummer doldrums, but something vicious is in the wind offshore.

I’d actually go further now than the “soft coup d’état” scenario that has Trump run over by the 25thamendment. It will happen, of course, but it will not satisfy anybody. Mike Pence will prove to be as ineffectual and unpopular as Trump, and he will be drowning in financial and fiscal problems, and he will get no help from the legislature in resolving any of it, and before too long there may be a general in the White House — or attempting to run things from someplace else, if he can. The whole nauseating spectacle will be attended by violent popular revolt of region against region and tribe against tribe in a great civil explosion of long-suppressed angst.

Too many nasty forces are vectoring in on the scene to overthrow the dream state America has been languishing in. Most of them involve money (or “money”) and the questions of how can we possibly keep paying for the way we live in this country, and who exactly has been fobbing off with the former wealth of every rusted and busted community in the land? It’s going to start in the stock and bond markets and it will be soon. And then the US Treasury will destroy the dollar trying (again) to save the banks. And the bank accounts will be frozen. And the loans will stop being paid. And the SNAP cards are going to stop working, and pretty soon the just-in-time deliveries to the supermarkets, and the resupply to the gas stations, and there won’t be much that Mike Pence can do about it. He’ll be shoved aside and the military will have to try to restore order in the land. When they do, it will not be the same land we sang about back in the fifth grade.

Up in a cloud somewhere over Ohio, maybe, Schrödinger’s Cat will be gazing down on us, grinning.


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basarov • Toynbee observed that all empires suicide...the June 2017 study by the US War College admits to US serious decline...(At Our Peril: DOD Risk Assessment). More ominous, is the prediction by the Norwegian mathematician/sociologist, Johan Galtung. He famously predicted the demise of the USSR by 1990, utilizing 15 criterion. He predicts that internal tensions and contradictions will cause the US empire to die by 2020 (structural theory of imperialism)

Tatarewicz • Any societal collapse will be contrived or a climate or some other natural disaster. There is too much production capacity, too many trained personnel to let bookkeeping factors like money and debt bring the economy down in an era of instant communication In case of a paralyzing bureaucratic snafu people from the private sector like Tillerson can be brought in. Health care can be adequately covered by dropping foreign bases and ending protection for a bunch of squatting thieves in Palestine.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

Great points, thanks.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2017-07-22   8:59:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2017-07-24   18:41:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: ghostdogtxn (#2)

Rather than an economic collapse a much better alternative would be electing a Congress which concentrates on domestic infrastructure and trade, like China is doing, rather than one concerned with Israel's security.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2017-07-25   6:31:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Tatarewicz (#3)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2017-07-25   21:26:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Tatarewicz (#3)

The only elections more rigged than Rothschild Single Party Capitalommunist Isramerikan elections are Red Communist Chinese elections.


"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning

Rotara  posted on  2017-07-26   0:35:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Rotara (#5)

Domestic and international progress by one-party China indicates the system has merit in that party/government policy is debated at the party level by keenly-interested individuals. I'm assuming anyone can join the communist party. Once a policy is adopted there's no public opposition running interference during implementation. They now have well-rained PhD,s running the show rather than western-type clowns who are voted in for their entertainment value as much as anything else. China system working so well that soon they will likely have more billionaire capitalists than US.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2017-07-26   2:01:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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