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Who Has The Time And Motivation to Comprehend The Mess We're In? Almost Nobody
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
If we don't understand the problem or the dynamics that are generating the problem, it is impossible to reach a solution or practical plan of action.
When it comes time to assess our grasp of the dynamics of this unprecedented era, how do you reckon historians will grade our collective political "leadership," intelligentsia, central state, corporate leadership and the "common man/woman" citizen? Did we rise to the occasion or did we falter, not in acting to counter the dissolution of the Status Quo, but in simply making a concerted effort to understand the tangled web of lies, corruption, perverse incentives, unintended consequences, simplistic (and utterly misguided) ideologies, not to mention the real-world limits of a supposedly limitless world, that have become the key dynamics of this era?
I suspect future historians (presuming the funding of such scholarly assessments survives) will grade all categories either F or D-. The reasons are not difficult to discern, and it behooves us to understand why we are collectively so ill-prepared to understand our era, much less fix what's broken before the whole over-ripe mess collapses in a heap.
1. Intellectual laziness. Very few people are willing to work hard enough to figure things out on their own. It's so much easier to join Paul Krugman dancing around the fire of the Keynesian Cargo Cult, chanting "aggregate demand! Humba-Humba!" while waving dead chickens than ditch reductionist, naive ideologies and actually work through an independent analysis.
2. Independent thinking is an excellent way to get fired, demoted or sent to Siberia. Though America claims to value independent thinking, this is just another pernicious lie: what America values is the ability to mask failing conventional ideas and systems with a thin gloss of "fresh thinking."
In other words, what the American state and corporatocracy value is the appearance of independent thinking, not the real thing. Since the real thing will get you fired, everyone who works for government or Corporate America masters the fine arts of producing simulacra, legerdemain and illusion. This only further obscures the real dynamics, making legitimate analysis that much more difficult.
3. Relatively few have any incentive to question authority, the state or the corporatocracy. Humans excel at figuring out which side of the bread is buttered, and who's lathering on the butter: self-interest is the ultimate human survival trait (we cooperate because it serves our self-interest to do so).
While we cannot hold the pursuit of self-interest against any individual--after all, who among us truly acts selflessly when push comes to shove?--we can monitor the monumentally negative consequences of self-interest and complicity on the systems and Commons we share.
When roughly half of all households are drawing direct cash/benefits from the central state, how many of those people are interested in doing anything that might put their place at the feeding trough at risk? Sure, people will grouse about this or that (usually related to the conviction that they deserve more or have been cheated out of "their fair share"), but as long as the government payments, direct deposits and benefits keep coming, what possible motivation is there for the recipients to devote energy to investigating the potential collapse of the gravy train?
Corporate America is no different. The store may be devoid of customers, but the employees will strive to look busy to keep the paychecks coming until the inevitable lay-off/implosion occurs. How many Corporate America employees will critique their way out of a paycheck? In an environment this difficult for job-seekers, you'd be nuts to bother figuring out why your division is failing, knowing as you do that the truth will result in the "termination with extreme prejudice" of the naive fools who presented the truth as if it would be welcome
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Does anyone seriously imagine that any employee of a bloated bureaucracy will ever voluntarily challenge the squandering of revenues when that might cost them their own paycheck, bonus, contract for their brother-in-law, etc.? A few protected people (professors with tenure, for example) can be "brave," but their "bravery" is cheap: their protestations cannot trigger termination with extreme prejudice, so the gesture of resistance is just that, a gesture.
4. Those relative few who might have a real motivation to undertake independent analysis have little time to pursue this noble project. They are working absurd hours and enduring absurd commutes. Between getting the bundles of diapers into the elevator and planning what to cook for dinner, there is precious little time or energy left for figuring out the mess we're in. Just getting to a second or third job can suck up a significant amount of time, money amd energy.
And so the busy employee/sole-proprietor/contract worker listens to NPR or some talk radio program for a few minutes, reinforcing their ideology of choice, and turns on the "news" (laughably bad propaganda churned up with "if it bleeds, it leads") as background noise and spends whatever personal time they have on Roku, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, email, etc. seeking distraction or solace from the daily workload.
In a strange irony, there are plenty of citizens who have plenty of time (recall that Americans manage to watch 6-8 hours of TV a day), but their marginalized status and dependence on the state drains them of motivation to do anything but seek amusement and distraction.
If we don't understand the problem or the dynamics that are generating the problem, it is impossible to reach a solution or practical plan of action. In other words, the four points above doom us just as surely as the dynamics of insolvency, corruption, debt servitude, Tyranny of the Majority, etc. etc. etc.
Choose your metaphor of choice, but rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic has a nice ironic texture in an election year, when the "news" will be focusing on rearranging the political deck chairs on the first class deck--at least when there's no celebrity ruckus or "if it bleeds, it leads" to crowd out what passes for "hard news" in a regime dedicated to the distractions of bread and circuses.
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Agreed, to a point... But our macro systems have evolved, to wit, the despotism of Ancient cultures to various form of social democracy. This was not an accident but the outcome of thousands of years of thought and debate, the idea does eventually win if if it truly has merit...
The better question is whether one can fix the current mess via the "free will" of the current collective. For that I agree, that we are probabaly too far gone, but if we are ever to learn to live fairly and sustainably, the process of figuring out things had better start soon, vigorously no less. And without rose-colored glasses, i.e. the state will exist in some form, wishing it not to be is naive...
"the state will exist in some form, wishing it not to be is naive... '
Yes there will always be a state, the question is what form of state do we want. Personally for me the less intrusive the state is, the better.
As far as the macro picture, I believe that is taking care of itself. The seemingly never ending expansion that this country has "enjoyed" since it's "discovery" is over. That is of course unless we want to start wholesale slaughtering of other civilizations which, I'm sad to say, we are exceedingly good at.
That current macro situation you deride is merely the continuation of practices from ancient times. Just becaue it is the last chapter in the book, doesn't mean the meme will vanish.
Yes, the state should be unobtrusive as possible, but the state also includes everything within it, i.e corporations, how do you curtail their right to be obstrusive while still repecting the basic liberties that we cherish?
The other thing that sucks is that the people will enjoy liberty inversly proportional to the power of the state.
But, if the state has no power than OTHER states might wish to impose their will on us through force.
No real good answers I am sad to say.
pods
It is all about finding a balance...
But, why is it that the Danes are consistently the happiest people on the planet? They have a very active state.
I will grant you that they do benefit to some extent in that they outsourced some "stately duties" to NATO. But they do contribute
http://forsvaret.dk/fko/eng/Pages/default.aspx
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Danish_Army
Happiness...
Isn't contentment anathema to our economic system?
Aren't we told day in and day out that the path to happiness lies in having moar?
And if that is the source of the problem, come up with a clever way of regulating it... I dare you in the face of the cries for unfettered liberty....
I believe it first starts with the local community, supporting one another. In the big picture I believe the internet can have a huge roll in global governance. We don't need "really smart people" to make our decisions for us. The collaboration of the collective can do better. People just need to learn to think differently. Life can function without a central authority.
I think a city-state would be far more efficient, and co-operation between cities, than nation-states.
We have very little disagreement, even as we pick nits.
Personally, I am unable to conceive of a way in which I can effect the collective in a directed manner - I have very little faith in my own personal agency. However, I don't project that on others, and I admire people who try.
Ah but you have affected (sic) the collective, merely by interacting on the Zerohedge stage...
Like Gandhi once said, "no matter what you do, it will be insignificant, however, it is very important that you do it"
I always get the e and a wrong. I even have a degree in English. :(
I advocate for regional food self-sufficiency. that "regional" can be a continent if really necessary, but not further
the one scariest thing for me is food that can only be brought by gas-driven trucks over roads - maximum oil dependency - followed by ship-lanes
otherwise the rest does not really scare me that much - we humans are a sturdy plague. followed by rats. though in a pinch, we eat the rats, so...
Continent level is too big if you want real resilience. Continent level still requires too much oil.
Genghis Khan did it without oil.
I don't think there is a solution at the macro level. Macro level solutions imply control at the macro level.
I am against all forms of coersion, and nothing macro is going to work anyways.
So my thinking is going to be me. Not what the state might do to volutarily reduce their power.
Cause they ain't gonna do that.
pods
I mentioned Indians a ways up. They certainly represented an example of anarchist principles in practice. the Indian nations were far from perfect (or perfectly anarchist), but they did live in harmony with the world for countless generations.
That is very true. Of course it was brutal and "savage" in many ways, especially through today's lens.
The big problem is that organized groups can decimate small groups.
So it becomes a big power struggle and arms race.
pods
That's the history of mankind. Organized groups have always decimate small unorganized groups, no matter what their race.
-I would add that current "disorganized" groups, political or otherwise, will inevitably be decimated by the organized ones.
Don't over-romanticize the Indians. They affected their environment heavily by burning and hunted many species to extinction. Some tribes were warlike, constantly attacking their neighbors. (Those tribes, the Sioux and Apaches, ended up giving the whites the most trouble.)
Don't over-romanticize the Indians.
I don't think I did.
The fact that you believe they actually lived in "harmony" tells me you're romanticizing something, maybe your'e confusing the Indians with the American hippies of the 60's. It must have been fun to be an "anarchist" in a still safe and free country back then.
1 positive macro-level change: fire the central controllers & do not permit new ones to take their place.
Just saying it's needed, not likely.
@ PODS, I agree with what you said, except I would clarify something by saying that one should avoid being "in debt", as in being in the red, or living beyond means. There's no reason to use cash to buy something today when interest rates are low or even nonexistent, as in some car loans for example. Yesterday I was going over some bills with my partner and we talked about a $450,000,15year loan that we have a few months left to pay on. Sure, we paid back almost twice as much as we borrowed, but we both agreed that if we hadn't borrowed that money, we would not have been able to build the projects we now own together which are worth over 4 Mil. Interestingly the same bank won't refinance us and give us the same 450k loan again today.
Well loans for capital improvement are a valid reason to go into debt.
The vast majority go into debt to consume. Small debt, as in CC debt feeds the beast just as big debt does too.
If aggregate credit rolls over, shit gets bad (for debt money). That is all we have to do.
pods
I traveled to Argentina after the 2001 financial collapse. No one had any credit cards, all cash, people had taken a big loss in their wealth, banks also stopped giving loans, but they functioned. That collapse however didn't keep them from electing a Peronist (a leftist politcal party who's battle cry has always been social redistribition). Point is that their gov became even more totalitarian and even more controlling than before. The result now is capital controls, trabsactions in all currency except theirs is illegal, and they are suffering even worse economic conditions than during the 2001 collapse.
There is a special place in hell for 99% of the politicians who have sold their souls in order to make a buck.
As far as solutions inside the system, there are zero. The corruption runs far to deep, and the people of this country are far more concerned about how they are going to purchase the next iGadget or their next pair of $350 Air Jordans. As long as the dollar reigns supreme the unfettered consumption will continue, and the corruption will get progressively worse.
The best thing that could happen is to lose the reserve currency status and this idea that we can have everything..unlimited consumption, never ending free stuff without working, a military second to none... all of these issues will take care of themselves once the debt based dollar dies.
Once the reserve currency is lost and an actual reset has set in,then we can start rebuilding.
I'm not arguing with you, but rebuild what?
New strip malls? New 6 lane freeways? New sports stadiums? New home improvement centers?
Cripes I hope not. I'd rather see us take a longer term view on the world. Personally I would be happy if we could adopt a life where more stuff isn't the end all, be all. But human nature being what it is, I don't hold out much hope for that.
Buckminster Fuller, who I have such a deep emotional connection to that he feels like he was my own crazy grandpa, talked about ephemeralization. I always thought that this was one of his greatest conceptual failures. However, I've recently come to believe that I (and everyone else) misunderstood what he meant. Ephemeralization is not forever doing more with more. An "increasing standard of living" is an abstraction, defined however one wishes to define it. We must rebuild ourselves.
Is this possible? YES.
When I say possible, I mean possible in the sense that there is a conceivable world where humanity grows up. I doubt that this is that world.
If that currecny cliff is really lurking out there and can brush aside carrier task groups and the will to use them then the folks who think strip malls and Air Jordans are important will be naturally curtailed in numbers.
Something new that involves resiliant local economies.
I suppose but the others still get a corner of hell somewhere else.
I went from over 100K a year in a 20 year position to scrambling for odd jobs. It is amazing what little you can live on if you haven't buried yourself in debt. I have through a company BK stepped way back in income. I feel good about not paying over 20k a year in to feeding the beast. I have been awake and thinking my whole life. I sure didn't plan on being out on the street looking for work at the tender age of 58 but I am ok. Most troubling thing to happen to me lately was my 149.00 kitchen faucet from a well known quality manufacturer has a plastic sink plate. Not even chromed metal. 149 dollars for part plastic parts. What can you do? Starve the beast. I am traveling to Ohio to break, cut and wrap four grass fed steers. For my efforts I come home with a quarter of freezer beef. Barter, it's whats for dinner.
Exactly being out of debt is the key. If you are resilient you can make due quite well with less. Lean and quick on your feet (mind) in this type of environment is going to be the important survival skills. Fat, bloated and resistant to change are going to get picked clean when they have nowhere to hide. That is another problem people are just not that resilient anymore. They either can't or don't want to learn and adapt to what the environment is giving to get from here to there. There is going to be a big trial by fire for alot of these squishy idealists when the supply lines break and there are no life lines to grab onto. That is when the jawboning stops being pie in the sky idealistic and becomes more pragmatic and realistic. You'll know it when you see the change.
Removing ourselves from debt is what kills what ails us. Unfortunately, they will fight back. We must invest in ourselves, not bank accounts, mutual funds or even currency.
What, nature doesn't just love the slowest animals?
necessity, the mother of invention
On the other hand invention is the mother of necessity
I'd vote 'fear' or 'death'
shocking.
I would either take it back or be more careful to inspect, even search online for videos of complaints about a product before buying it. Plumbing is too important to get screwed like that and pay more in the long run.
Sorry you got sniped like that. Congrats on literally bringin' the beef home.
We're already off the cliff...................Impact will be epic.
No question, we are going down. The question is, what will arise.
If it goes all the way to the bottom, nothing good. Our only hope is to stop it before then, while there is something that still resembles a society.
I think whatever societies come after collapse will be by necessity more adaptive and resilient than what came before-- if not, an economic, political, and social collapse is merely the prelude to our extinction as a species.
Whether this will be "good" in a moral sense, I do not know. Nor do I expect to live to see it. There will be blood, rivers of it.
I share your idea that small, capable, breakaway societies may escape the bottom. And those who wish to have a future will be building it now, wherever they may be. Godspeed.
blood? There will be tumors. Whatever society follows next better be highly resistant to radiation.
If you prick a tumor, does it not bleed?
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/understandingcancer/angiogenesis
Is there a bottom for a black hole?
"Debt servitude" is one of those understated phrases that has the weight of human history behind it, the depth and breadth of injustice, terror, and suffering which was all too real to those who participated in slavery merely a few generations ago. To the slavers and slaves, it was all too apparent that DEBT IS SLAVERY. That fact was as real and obvious to them as Sun in the sky. Modern life may have taken the sting out of living in debt, or as we ironically say, living on credit, with all the accompanying consumer credit and bankruptcy laws, but step into the grey world of loan sharks, or even worse, payday loan companies that charge 2000%+ APR, and the weight of history will fall on your shoulders like a ton of bricks into hell and despair.
That, obviously is precisely what money lenders of all sizes do to make a living, the biggest profits invariably from human misery, bread and butter from success. What happens when the medium of exchange, the store of value, when money itself is based on debt? Debts that are so large, generations yet unborn must be factored in to service it? We're all about to find out for real.
I agree, but could you loan me a few bucks? I need to buy a few lottos as I really think my luck is about to change!
We should all use lotto tickets as currency!
If you feel lucky, scratch it & if it loses, you're BROKE!
If it wins - hoooooray inflation!
And we can transfer them digitally and call it LottoCoin.
What better way to lock in profits than to secure debts to be paid directly through the currency which is made of pure debt?
The Ponzi schemes by the central planners goes on until it bows up. Bailout buddies and print is the plan.
Actually, we did take the time and figured it out at Elect A New Congress, www.electanewcongress.com, and we'll be kicking off a year long campaign to do just that, Elect A New Congress dedicated to "Liberty Legislation", to restore the Rule of the People over our government. This solves the problem that Charles can't seem to get his hands around, the problem being that We, the People are currently ruled by our government. I tried to figure out a way to contact Charles on his web page, but he seems to feel he does not need any help or outside information. I suspect he thinks that if anything is worth knowing, he already knows it. But then, this is typical of those Ivy League towers where people like Charles live; but again, that is at the core of the problem, isn't it; and so it would be almost impossible for Charles to have any awareness of the problem and its solution that seem to have eluded him.
How do you stop it from being subverted like the 'tea party' types?
If one cannot walk to the center of their town/city and spin around to get a 360 degree view, and realize that we're fucked, they never will understand.
You would probably get tackled and arrested by a guy in a costume before you got to 180°
who is our next leader ? a bonesman , a neighborhood organizer , a clintonian , another manchurian candidate , a RINO , or an accredited expert in sophistry and illusion - i can't wait 2C
I've spent 20-30 years comprehending it.......and came to the conclusion all you can do it protect you and your own.
So I have nothing in this phony market, sold my rental properties at the height of the last real estate bubble, put the proceeds in precious metals ( held very locally ) and making our property as self sustaining as possible.
Now I watch the sun shine on my solar panels, watch the overflow from the spring feed my catfish ponds, watch the seasons grow my gardens/fruit trees and listen to the cows and chickens doing their things.
Life is good.
Just Observing
(Not to be confused with my cousin JustObserving)
I would congratulate you, but you seem to be doing a pretty good job of it yourself.
I am tired of the whining about sheeple
don't underestimate the collective wisdom of people
sure there's many that don't use what brains they were given but mostly people who are disaffected as we are now are correct not to really dwell on the sate we are in because they really know it is useless for anyone in their position to do anything meaningful about it. it is better to go through life taking pleasure in what you can than worry about things no one can help life is tough in the working class and always has been. no good can come from letting current events make yourself miserable. activisim is for the well to do. but if the time comes to take action and it is necessary the sheeple will be the ones that save or destroy what needs to be
My fear is that the sheeple will defer to the shepherd and be herded into what "seems" the best option. From the mentality of my sheeple friends I would say being protected by the shepherd as the main agenda they would go for. Soft totalitarianism, until things get tough, then tough totalitarianism. But people wanting liberty will gather somewhere at some point and start anew. I hope I live long enough to join them and participate in the renaissance . And I hope it is in the land of palm trees.
Be very afraid of wolves dressed in shepherd's clothing.
The historical depiction of a benignly smiling Jesus cradling a helpless lamb in his arms has always bemused me - the lamb will surely be shorn and eventually sacrificied as a burnt offering or slaughtered and eaten.
A perfect metaphor for the sheeple.
Meek inherits Earth six feet deep.
The meek shall inherit nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbvVZpJgJb0
"The meek shall inherit the earth"
- Art Carney, The twilight zone
- Neil Peart, 2112
Another variation - The "Judas Goat" - Trained to lead animals to slaughter:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Judas%20Goat
Self reliance was never compatible with a consumer debt ridden economy which only enslaves the participants into dependance, false self esteem and greed . Turning this ship around will not be easy considering the captain and crew are enjoying the titanic voyage.
And if you are looking or paying attention, you won't find it here.
I hate to be Captain Obvious here, but the sad fact is that you can elect whomever you like, but until we break the tie between election funding by special interests and the elected, you will always get more of the same.
Money writes the laws for it's own interest.
A chicken or an egg conumdrum. Any politician out there stumping for killing the ability to get himself elected?
Look how far Ron Paul got.
The merry go round continues.
For some time now (30 years) I have felt as if I were on a plantation of my own making.
Not the owner however, but the slave, working dawn til dusk, ever wary of the man with the whip.
When I would slack off, the sting was felt, driving me to work as hard as I could to stay far from it.
Recently the statistics cut us to a 90:10 split. (In some cases 99:1.)
1 out of 9.
I tried (was goaded) to be in the 1 group, but something always dragged me back down to the 9.
I often saw what made the difference, what held me back.
But it is becoming more and more obvious now.
I simply wouldn't allow myself to become "morally corrupt" enough to join the 1.
I simply will not just fall to a further moral demise and join.
I think I can truthfully say that we 9 understand.
We also are clueless to an immediate fix.
For now Dawn til Dusk is our only salvation.
We are trapped.
But then again, I really don't need the brass ring that badly.
All these years we have had either paralysis by analysis or more crooks than chooks.
People will finally make sense of it when they take matters into their own hands and then it will be on for young and old.
A better question would be "Out of the people who have the time and motivation to comprehend the mess we're in, why do such a small percentage of them comprehend the mess we're in?"
I'd expect my financial advisor to be telling me to buy a farm and get off the grid, but he doesn't.
time to switch financial advisors. I'd start looking at what Joel Salatin has to say.
I already own a farm off the grid (I'm typing this on a coconut computer), so it would be meaningless for him to tell me to do it. But it would be a nice gesture.
Thanks for the tip on Salatin.
every farmer has their own tips - his may not apply to your land but... he's real good at what he does. I'm impressed by his migrating chicken flocks, how quickly they can be fed yet fertilize fields.
Have you checked out Mittleider gardening? It's impressive. Total re-work of how to deal with soil & mineral+nutrient balance plus adverse weather & quickly diagnosing what's wrong with a plant for immediate correction, be it the soil or pest insects, rodents, etc.
Or, put 10% in gold and hide it, spend the rest, and then cultivate modesty.
America is a project, and it's not really going too well.
Projects can and do fail all the time. Where is it written in the universe that the entity called the "United States of America" will last forever and will lord it over all other peoples until the end of time, and will expand into the universe and lord it over all aliens until the end of time?
Didn't Rome believe the same thing? And the British?
Believe me, the rest of the world isn't going to care if this thing goes down. Yes it will be painful at first, they will need to find new currencies and ways to trade, but they will get on with life, humans always do.
AmeriKKKa is THEFT
They came here and killed the Native Indians murdered them all, and then the USA took itself to murder the world,
Then it turned on itself as was predicted in the 1960's.
Experiment my ass, the USA is a kleptocracy, and the world is sick and tired of their shit, so now the USA has to rob its fucking self,
Like I always say, RUN FAR AWAY FROM THE USA, ... if you want to live.
CHS you nailed it as always. Loved your book, "Why things are falling apart and what we can do about it". I'm on my third reading of it....
We are fucked for sure, and appear to have earned it
Seems to me people need to learn how to see, how to get past personal bias, and to share with others, need to learn how to do so without getting fired, jailed, etc., while pushing the real evidence so others can verify the claims made. Anonymity on the Internet is a huge part of this for most people. When privacy is gone punishment will follow for stepping out of line.
Being defended by a strong reputation also helps for a smaller minority. Some are very vulnerable & will feel their reputation will be damaged rather than their claims & presentation of evidence bolstered by the reputation.
This can be a problem so people who aren't anonymous need to make a delicate judgement call about what the outcome will be: will a claim & evidence be heard because of reputation (happens but not usually) or will one's reputation be destroyed for speaking the truth (all too typical)?
As for being intellectually lazy... that's all too typical no matter the era of history or city/nation in question. Sad but true.
Charles Smith, is like the only real person I ever see on the INTERNET that tells the truth, but he does it with class.
Maulden trys to fake it, but MAULDEN is clearly a cheer-leader for te IMF.
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The problem is this is a constant in all human history and society.
[ Read "Richest man in Babylon", if your under 20, and want to become part of the 3% and jump into the 0.01%, its a 4,000 year old book. ]
1.) 97% don't have a fucking clue what's going on
2.) 2.99% know what's going on
3.) 0.01% or LESS, make shit happen
In summary, its nothing fucking new, ... and even if the 3% wanted to tell the 97% percent the truth, they would be bored in a nano-second, the USA public prefer KARDASHIAN-SNATCH by a 60% margin, enough said, don't rock the boat.
Gaining knowledge for what? Is the real problem, it will not set you free, most likely drive you nuts.
The smart thing is for the 3% to educate their child to be part of the 0.01%, that is the only intelligent reason to be part of the 3%, otherwise, its better to be part of the 97%, the so called "BOILED FROGS"
I don't know about other countries, but Americans are allergic to the truth. They do not speak it and refuse to seek it or even hear it. They will not stand for it. When they hear it coming, they yell and stomp in a tantrum and change the channel. Even if the Messiah came today, Americans would not recognize Him, so spoiled and corrupted are they.
So who ever has time and motivation to look at ugliness?
Anyway this is the Obamanation, there is no ugliness, nothing to look at, these are not the economic facts you've been looking for, move along.
Fark the globalist eungenic control fks. There time will come!
Who has the time and motivation?
Very few apparently.
Those few who understood prior to 2008 what was going to happen and then after 2008 saw most of the Western world pass down the rabbit hole, find it virtually impossible to discuss the topic with family and friends, let alone other people.
People believe what they are told on the TV … that recovery is underway and that all is well.
This message is repeated daily.
For these viewers the GFC is already an historical event.
The five years of the “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party” since 2008 are now accepted as the “New Normal”.
If you have been increasingly feeling like ‘Alice’ …. this is the reason why.
WOW, no doubt that CHARLES is reading ZH, I just felt like I read a full concenced snapyse of my shit in one long page.
Just yesterday I wrote "If you really understood the USA, you would go MAD"
For he that gaineth knowledge of the USA gaineth grief, and in much knowledge of the REAL USA is much UN-Happiness.
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Also to peel back the onion and to really learn about the USA, takes at least 50 years of hard fucking study,
I have no doubt that CHARLES on recently perhaps the last 5-10 years figured out the 'real show' in the USA.
Once you arrive there, you will not like what you find, thus the old maxim, "Better to be DUMB and HAPPY".
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Yep, NOTHING will fucking change when over 60% of the USA public is on the NAZI payroll.