Reply #13: Futurist predictions [View All]

[PATRICK]

suffer too much from ideal purity and simplicity, the unknown and the murk of human nature. The principles and patterns however suggest the degree of suffering and evils to come are understated in your scenario. In fact, they may be inevitable already whether Bush gets to finish them off or not.

You can destroy a work of art, rob a bank and lie quite easily. Building a civilization that way is rather difficult and dealing with real crises impossible and hindered under such activities.

Businessmen with knowledge and concern for the future and their own world who nonetheless simply let greed run amok will destroy any system of organization and power they think will seal the deal. Ignored crises like population growth, disease, environmental change or just plain poisoning, and democratic, cultural pressures not only won't be controlled by any draconian tyrannical measures, but are outside their immediate main interests. That is not on their main plate anymore than concern for their own "souls" or the lives or well-being of anyone.

The "World" has not been turned upside down by the American Revolution, but the Revolution, subverted by Mammonite faith in the beneficence and wisdom of material misers and money elites has been flipped "Right-side up" now in the throes of the largest Ponzi scam of human history. Since the alternatives are weak, non-existent and unlikely to halt ALL the major downslides we are in for very bad times, which I hope for your sleeping habits, are unimaginable.

Which bad times will be blamed on Bill Clinton.