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America's Looming "Great Surprise"
Submitted by Jame H Kunstler via Kunstler.com,
The unfortunate consequence of not allowing the process of “creative destruction” to occur in banking and Big Business is that the historic forces behind it will seek expression elsewhere in the realm of politics and governance. The desperate antics of central banks to cover up financial failure can’t help but provoke political upheaval, including war.
It’s a worldwide phenomenon and one result will be the crackup of economic relations — thought by many to be permanent — that we call “globalism.” The USA has suffered mightily from globalism, by which a bonanza of cheap “consumer” products made by Asian factory slaves has masked the degeneration of local economic vitality, family life, behavioral norms, and social cohesion. That crackup is already underway in the currency wars aptly named by Jim Rickards, and you can bet that soon enough it will lead to the death of the 12,000-mile supply lines from China to WalMart — eventually to the death of WalMart itself (and everything like it). Another result will be the interruption of oil export supply lines.
The USA as currently engineered (no local economies, universal suburban sprawl, big box commerce, despotic agribiz) won’t survive these disruptions and one might also wonder whether our political institutions will survive. The crop of 2016 White House aspirants shows no comprehension for the play of these forces and the field is ripe for epic disruption. The prospect of another Clinton – Bush election contest is a perfect setup for the collapse of the two parties sponsoring them, ushering in a period of wild political turmoil. Just because you don’t see it this very moment, doesn’t mean it isn’t lurking on the margins.
This same moment (in history) the American thinking classes are lost in raptures of techno-wishfulness. They can imagine the glory of watching Fast and Furious 7 on a phone in a self-driving electric car, but they can’t imagine rebuilt local economies where citizens get to play both an economic and social role in their communities. They can trumpet the bionic engineering of artificial hamburger meat, but not careful, small-scale farming in which many hands can find work and meaning.
The true genius of Hillary is that she manages to epitomize every failure of our current political life: the obsessive micro-manipulation of image, the obscene moneygrubbing, the tired cronyism, the entitlement masquerading as sexual equality. Mostly, though, she has no idea where history is taking us, in case you’re wondering at the stupefying platitudes offered up as representative of her thinking. I’m not advocating for this gentleman, but it will at least be interesting to see Martin O’Malley jump into the race and call bullshit on her, which he will do, literally, because he has nothing to lose by doing it. The eunuchs on The New York Times Op Ed page certainly won’t do it.
What happens on the world financial scene will determine the flow of events up into the 2016 election. The built-up tensions and fragilities are begging for release. The defining instant might be Greece’s unwillingness to fork over another debt payment, or the death of the shale oil “miracle,” or some act by Saudi Arabia’s enemies, or some chain of exploding booby-traps in the shadow banking netherworld. The great surprise for America especially will be the recognition that our current living arrangements have no future. That’s the only thing that will prompt a new consensus to form around some alternate, more plausible future, and the emergence of a generation willing to fight for it, even if it requires some real creative destruction of the things that are killing us anyway.
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We will always have these same problems (of more everything) if we have an exponential currency model.
Pointless to speak about changing anything while our money system mandates exponential expansion.
pods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrUXPn7HCjM
Wow, just when I think Kunstler couldn't possibly be any stupider, he comes out with this idiocy.
He provides confirmation bias and a soothing balm for the cognitive dissonance.
JPM is buying Silver like crazy folks: SOMETHING IS UP BIG TIME
Here’s a breakdown of the Comex’s most recent silver deliveries to JP Morgan:
April 7th: 1,110,000 ounces
April 8th: 1,280,000 ounces
April 9th: 893,037 ounces
April 10th: 1,200,224 ounces
April 14th: 1,073,000 ounces
April 15th: 1,191,275 ounces
April 16th: 1,183,777.295 ounces
All in all, JP Morgan has added over 8.3 million ounces of additional silver in just the past 2 weeks alone.
Dollar/stock market crash right around the corner or what is Jade Helm for?
No worry . . . they are just making silver cufflinks with matching bolo ties as Christmas gifts for all their bankster employees
Don't forget the timely limits that the Comex brought in on gold and silver in December. Gold will be limited to $400 per day moves and silver $12 as paper tries to control metal. Note that limit is not in effect after First Notice Day.
I'd be fine with $12 per day move in silver as long as it was a move up.
If it ever moves down $12 in one day when valued at $15, it'll likely be at $5000 the next day/week.
Would love to see Walmart go out of business. I would rather pay a few dollars more to fill my cart and see employees of a company get paid better.
No one 'saves money' at Walmart, they don't put the money in the bank, they just spend it on something else....
Very interesting.
"The built-up tensions and fragilities are begging for release."
A condition which often culminates in a "war-gasm". Don't get any on ya
Does JPM sell to/feed the SGE...?
True dat. Everything is Awesome.
Let me give that Knustlertalk a try:
and then there is Michelle Obama, a hulking frame right out of Encino Woman casting that supports a gapping maw, tossing down whole lobsters as if it were a log in a wood chipper on multi million dollar tropical vacations while her minions determine the exact amount of insect infested rice and canned butter beans your child deserves.....
Not bad. You only forgot to slam Walmart. Other than that, I encourage you to start your own blog.
What' is Michelle Obama?
Nothing without the guns of governmnet asserting that she is something.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Not "our" money system, but their ponzi system.
The banksters need to repay us.
In the coming Revolution, their ponzi system shall be the first target. No need for bombs or bullets, just Stop paying. Stop paying, as they need us, our backs, to support their plunder and tyranny, and we certainly don't need them.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
our current living arrangements have no future
Worse than that, the arrangement of things is such that they seem to have future........right up until the sudden chaotic realisation of their failure.
Some have the privilege of seeing beyond this seeming. Most do not.
Well stated Lady Jessica . . .
We are all slaves, to some degree, to our own Normalcy Bias. After all, the Sun will be coming up tomorrow, why not everything else as well? With approximately 70% of the population in this country living paycheck-to-paycheck, we are all doomed anyway, whether or not we saw it coming.
Rare events can be a bitch like that. Nobody expects them to happen so nobody prepares for them. Few today expect a once in a 1,000 year shattering economic/geopolitical event to happen, yet they do happen.
Bit like 100 year storms.Having been thru' three in 18 months, another misnomer.
"We are all slaves, to some degree, to our own Normalcy Bias."
Yes, but one of the problems is what we demand, or don't, that becomes normal.
If you go to a restaurant and are treated rudely and the staff is dirty, you would probably leave. That is because you demand to be treated well, and eat in a comfortable and clean environment.
If you demand Liberty and they provide ponzi and tyranny, then you may expect a change.
We don't have to except their ponzi and tyranny.
We do not have to:
CONSENT.
It's that simple.
The end is always nigh.
And nigh is always near it's end.
The end is nigh impossible to predict
Except we do know for sure that the end of nigh is sooner than later
nothing is going to change except in the sense of collapsing.
nothing good will come out of this for generations. generations.
demographics, geography the country is in death spasms.
you've got to hit bottom and unfortunately the ussa has not yet hit bottom.
and as the article states, there is no savior in the wings. no one. zero, zip, nada.
you're on your own and most of you can't even feed yourselves.
With respect, but that is a lousy attitude.
Your, like all American's, attitude should be of anger and demand. We should each be our own "saviors," demanding relief from the tyranny that has descended upon us. Certainly none of us need another hero full of lies, graft, and treason.
We only need ourselves, and to follow the guide that has already been provided us. The guide of Liberty and human dignity that our humanity and souls demand. The guide of the Constitution and Bill of Rights for a non-criminal governmnet providing justice to the people who ordained it.
But then we have little choice because Liberty carries with it not just a "right," but also a "duty," to resist tyranny, and "to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for your future security."
You may choose to do nothing, but I take up my "duty," and demand that my Liberty, human dignity, and the Constitution be honored.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
'Bout the last question to be asked is, what knuckleheads vote these cockroaches into power?
The free shit army.....
The USA as currently engineered (no local economies, universal suburban sprawl, big box commerce, despotic agribiz)...
The amazing revelation of how all those shitty pieces fit together as we watch them spin apart like a broken Bernankecopter.
Degeneration in the making and it's all a matter of time. Civilization can only exist when everyone uses the same rule book, but we've created entire classes of people, from top to bottom, that is predicated on the single rule of "I want my free shit NOW and fuck what you want". The entire complex system has become very delicate and fragile, yet we have people pushing on it while thinking they are immune. Wealth and power mean nothing when the barbarians are beating down the gate on their "Rape, pillage and burn" world tour.....
Hopefully the century of artificiality will come to an end. The world is drowning in everything fake. Fake money, fake food, fake relationships, fake wealth, fake profits, fake news, fake heroes, fake politicians. We need collapse, and we need people with the seed of decency to survive it.
Fake tits too, but let's keep those, Ok...? Thanks -
Just like these - courtesy of Dow Corning ?? :-D
http://www.pacificradiology.com.au/assets/Uploads/625x200xPIPbreastBanner.jpg.pagespeed.ic.1OBJwvAGBD.jpg
("A different view of the expected" perhaps??)
Should we be fearful of what crawls out from the ashes?
Thanks Mr. Kunstler, that was a fiber filled diatribe against the current insanity.
"The USA as currently engineered (no local economies, universal suburban sprawl, big box commerce, despotic agribiz) won’t survive these disruptions and one might also wonder whether our political institutions will survive."
Let us hope that none of them survive because the current system is unsustainable and tastes of evil.
Hitlery knows exactly what she's doing. Note: Server...
Member CFR.
I found it interesting that VT after vilifying AJ came out with a retraction today RE: JH. It's scary and as I hear & watch ear bleeding mil jets fly overhead in BFE.
Something wicked this way comes.
Gold & guns won't stop it.
You'll be lucky to have grub & water.
Another mea culpa from one that refuses to BTFD, and now seethes because of it (and writes verbose, darkly-philosophical mashups attacking someone other than themselves).
Where are your charts?
The USA politico puppets have a course plotted by their ZWO gangbangkster masters to use the USA until it's used up.
Mission nearly complete.
Today is Hitler's birthday.
Take a break from your tribe-enjoined slavery and sing along with me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8zUcg_Lks
To spare me having to click on the link, can you just confirm if this is "Tomorrow belongs to me"?
D. uber alles.
I prefer "Auferstanden aus Ruinen".
'Is it safe'...?
Clove oil is
The USA as currently engineered (no local economies, universal suburban sprawl, big box commerce, despotic agribiz) won’t survive these disruptions
I like to keep an eye out for these local economies at home and when I travel. Jim is very much right. In large sections of America there are no local economies. If you factor out the local schools, clinics/hospitals and local government , most towns have no economy at all. No local food production, no local energy production, no local manufacturing, no local clothes/shoe manufacturing, no heavy industry. In short, many places I visit and my own home county, are totally dependent on globalization. America gave up making things decades ago.
As Jim points out, any disruption in corporate globalized trade, via war, fiscal crisis or economic crisis, and America would simply collapse.
As Jim points out, any disruption in corporate globalized trade, via war, fiscal crisis or economic crisis, and America would simply collapse.
Or find it's way back, if they have to people can be pretty amazing, if they have to
You are both implying that a die-off at some percentage is a bad thing. The gene pool hasn't had a good cleaning in a long time.
I just realized how utterly callous that sounds. LOL. Sorry.
Lead the way....
/s
edit, we are guests, not hosts, on this planet.
That would have been a very good idea. Unfortunately our masters aren't interested in eugenics. On the contrary.
Our masters' first priority is removing from the gene pool those breeds of humanity whose intelligence, creativity and initiative would and should have allowed them to conquer the planet by now, and as it is pose the greatest threat to their masters' rule. That would be European Christians and their progeny, along with the Jews of Israel and the diaspora.
In the near term, sandniggers and common or garden niggers have the least to fear. They will still be valued a while longer as beasts of burden too stupid to successfully revolt.
Our masters' first priority is removing from the gene pool those breeds of humanity whose intelligence, creativity and initiative would and should have allowed them to conquer the planet by now, and as it is pose the greatest threat to their masters' rule.
Bears repeating with emphasis. Straight up FACT.
"The prospect of another Clinton – Bush election contest is a perfect setup for the collapse of the two parties sponsoring them"
I pray Jim is right, but I think he is wrong. Americans have almost zero self awareness. They really do rely on corporate media to set the tone for how they view America and the world. If major corporate media is blasting out that Clinton vs Bush is an epic election which will determine two very different paths for America. If after the election the media touts Bush or Clinton as a new vital force for American progress, then teh American people will accept it.
Look at congress. Something like 12% approval rate, but a high 90% re-election rate. This means no matter how much Americans hate congress, a smart media campaign can get anyone of these ass clowns re-elected just by marketing the candidate to the viewers of corporate media.
People who read ZH are not the people who watch CNN, MSNBC or FOX. That vast majority of Americans is waiting for this media outlets to tell them what they should think. Period!
To see the outcome of the next "Election", simply re-wind to the outcome of the last one. Quite the media frenzy over Dear Leader's election, along with his Nobel "Peace" prize for nothing.
The MSM know full-well which side of "their" bread is buttered, and they have their own agenda (which is the agenda of those persons / Institutions who really control things).
I still suspect Hitlery will have an unopposed election, simply 'cause she'd be the frst "woman" President, and that idea alone has a lot of traction within the "Twittering Set", as you must surely know.
Well then, let's just get this war started. I'm jonesin' to kill some fucking liberal fucktards.
Look. The only "creative destruction" our masters are interested in is new ways to cull proles who have outlived their usefulness on an industrial scale, and replace us with machines that will play the role of the New Socialist Man far better than humans ever did.
The game is to go on until robots are developed that can do anything a human prole can do and do it better, leaving our masters free to put us down like horses past their prime as beasts of burden (while they upload themselves to computers, that they might live forever), and leave it to our replacements to conquer the galaxy, they being more suited to the punishing environments of the galaxy beyond earth than we ever could be.
And that's the best case scenario. If we try to resist being flung on evolution's compost heap, our masters have seen to it that if they go down, we will die with them, those not vaporized by nuclear fire quickly dying of hunger, plague or radiation poisoning.
Either way, our fate is sealed.
There is hope. Just not for us.
Although very short-termist, it does seem that way.
Of course, developments in Ukraine may suggest that "option 2" may be the favoured one just now (except that "they" have no intention of joining "us" in the planned events . . .)
The Making of the Nazi (1943)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l14WDZCnz-w
"but it will at least be interesting to see Martin O’Malley jump into the race and call bullshit on her, which he will do, literally, because he has nothing to lose by doing it."
Except that if he starts to get any real traction, he may suddenly die in an 'accident.' But I don't think we need to worry for O'Malley. I note how he hasn't been in the news for some time, and suspect he has already been told to shut up and go home.
Needn't be an "accident" - there are plenty of "sudden onset" illnesses that would allow temporary removal from active campaigning (and so threat elimination). I'm sure Mr O'Malley has been made very aware of what "could" happen if the official agenda is not followed.
Time for an other Mad Max episode I quess, Mad Max IV Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWNWi-ZWL3c