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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Were Underestimating American Collapse
To tell you the truth, I dont think were taking collapse nearly seriously enough.
Why? When we take a hard look at US collapse, we see a number of social pathologies on the rise. Not just any kind. Not even troubling, worrying, and dangerous ones. But strange and bizarre ones. Unique ones. Singular and gruesomely weird ones Ive never really seen before, and outside of a dystopia written by Dickens and Orwell, nor have you, and neither has history. They suggest that whatever numbers we use to represent decline shrinking real incomes, inequality, and so on we are in fact grossly underestimating what pundits call the human toll, but which sensible human beings like you and I should simply think of as the overwhelming despair, rage, and anxiety of living in a collapsing society.
Let me give you just five examples of what Ill call the social pathologies of collapse strange, weird, and gruesome new diseases, not just ones we dont usually see in healthy societies, but ones that we have never really seen before in any modern society.
America has had 11 school shootings in the last 23 days. Thats one every other day, more or less. That statistic is alarming enough but it is just a number. Perspective asks us for comparison. So let me put that another way. America has had 11 school shootings in the last 23 days, which is more than anywhere else in the world, even Afghanistan or Iraq. In fact, the phenomenon of regular school shootings appears to be a unique feature of American collapse it just doesnt happen in any other country and that is what I mean by social pathologies of collapse: a new, bizarre, terrible disease striking society.
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Thats when the shit will get REAL. Eventually the only buyer of all that junk paper will be only the Federal Reserve itself. That will be the beginning of the Great Hyperinflation.
All paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value...zero.
-Voltaire
former9thward
(32,097 posts)Every word of it. When is this collapse going to happen? Be specific please.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Gold, silver and a few canned goods isnt going to save anyone from the crisis.
Look at Zimbabwe and present day Venezuela for examples. People in Venezuela are now hijacking food trucks in order to eat. South America is littered with countries who have devalued peoples savings into nothing...Argentina and Brazil are the most notables.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)That many who voted for Trump just wanted someone who would make everyone as miserable as they were.