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Days Of Rage Are Coming

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Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

The resistance will take the form of subverting the signifiers of wealth that exemplify the few who have benefited so greatly while everyone else lost ground.

It's time to trade in your Jag, Mercedes, BMW (and maybe your Prius, Volvo, Lexus, etc.) before the Days of Rage start. As I've explained before ( As the "Prosperity" Tide Recedes, the Ugly Reality of Wealth Inequality Is Exposed), the rage of the masses who have been losing ground while the Financier Oligarchs, the New Nobility and the technocrat class reap immense gains for decades has been suppressed by the dream that they too could join the Upper Caste.

But once the realistic odds of that happening (low) sink in, the Days of Rage will begin. For those still who don't know the facts of rising inequality, here's what you need to know.

The top 1% skim 23% of all income:

While the top 5% has enjoyed substantial income gains over the past 45 years, adjusted for inflation, the bottom 90% have lost ground:

The last time there was mass unrest in America was the civil rights/Vietnam War era. The power of the civil rights movement arose from the core injustice of segregation (separate and unequal) and institutionalized racism/bias. This institutionalized injustice drew people from all classes and ethnicities into the streets, where they were promptly beaten by police.

The anti-war's Days of Rage drew from a different well of unrest. In effect, the college-age offspring of the great American middle class had decided that sacrificing their lives for the Domino Theory/defense of previous incalculably stupid Imperial decisions made no sense.

But when they made their doubts known, the Powers That Be's response shocked them: we don't care what you think, you're going to fight our war, no questions asked. The middle class is more than an income bracket; it's a mindset of entitlements, one of which is that the middle class's opinions matter.

Surprise, middle class America--the Power Elites could care less what you think. If the Empire needs your sons for an insane war, deliver them to Caesar, and we'll ship them home in body bags, or alive but hooked on smack, whatever--the individual consequences don't count.

Seeing middle class kids destined for successful careers in the Establishment being beaten, shot down and arrested as if they were rabble laid the Imperial Project bare and disabused people of their naive faith that the Power Elites cared what they thought.

We are approaching another moment in history that disabuses what's left of the middle class of their fantasy that they matter. The poor don't harbor such entitlements; they know all the high-minded promises are shuck and jive. They have fewer illusions to crush.

The heavily-militarized police and the central bureaucracies of repression would love to confront an unarmed mob of middle class kids. It would be child's play to teargas them, beat them, and trundle them off in mass arrests.

But this time around, people have gotten wise to the militarized brutality. The Occupy Wall Street movement taught us all a powerful lesson: if you assemble 500 people in a symbolically important place like Wall Street, the Power Elites will assemble 1,000 cops/F.B.I. agents et al. to crush you.

So the resistance will take the form of subverting the signifiers of wealth (when nobody's looking) that exemplify the few who have benefited so greatly while everyone else lost ground. For example:

If you want to retain your signifier of wealth/success, you'd be better off turning it into an art car:

Alternatively, you can cover it with adverts (Eat at Joe's). People will assume it's a company car and you're just the schmoe hired to drive it.

But by far the safest strategy is to dump the Jag, Benz, etc. and acquire a well-worn econobox vehicle with some rust spots and dents, a car that won't attract any notice in a sea of other old vehicles driven by people clinging to the dignity of personal transport.

If you really want a new car, then buy a working-class hero car, i.e. a new American Muscle car: a Mustang, a Camero, a Challenger. But for goodness sakes, don't dress like a tech-bro or a financier.

 

 

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Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:21 | 6589458 koan
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There is no Glock 45, there are .45 calibre Glocks, me thinks you should stick to a calibre easier to handle.

After all it's placement not size that counts.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:32 | 6589517 zstard
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If your placement's not that good, size matters.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 15:17 | 6589755 jakesdad
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& green lasers can be had for well under $100...

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 18:18 | 6590570 Head_Shots_Work
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OMG really? Well trust me - I have the mother fucker and it's ready to use. The laser sight helps. Also helps that I cut a lot of firewood so I'm strong as an ox. I have a pussy Ruger 380 that I can stick in my sock. SO what is it? I don't really care - it's a Glock 21 or 23 - something like that - who cares? All I need to know is what kind of ammo I need to slam into it. Mostly Hornady JHP. But what's REALLY cool - is my double barrelled pump DP12. And I have it loaded with buckshot. It's not always the placement when you are shooting at a carload of idiots - a 45 will go through a car door or a cement block. A 380 won't. Too bad I lost all of this stuff in an unfortunate kayaking incident last month. 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:30 | 6589504 zstard
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30 round clip? What Glock .45 is that?

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:39 | 6589540 Teh Finn
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http://www.hkparts.net/shop/pc/-Glock-45-Cal-26-Round-Magazine-KCI-p2298...

Apparently this works in the Kriss Vector as well.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 18:23 | 6590590 Head_Shots_Work
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Thanks for replying. It's bizarre to look at and hold. You think you need another handle for it, looks like an uzi. Mine's a 30 round though:

http://www.armslist.com/posts/1544942/columbus-ohio-magazines-for-sale--...

it's pretty weird - I prefer my 1911. The glock, however, is amazing in the fact that it doesn't really kick up much because of it's awesome design. These suckers are great "shock and awe" type weapons, but if I'm going to be in a fight - I'm taking my AR and striking from a long distance. The best thing to do in a fight is not get into one - and with an AR with a nice sight you can be pretty damn far away. I spent as much for my laser and sight as I did the AR. 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 13:57 | 6589308 seek
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There's some truth to this. One of my cars used to be a Porsche, and after the '08 crash the hostility I experienced driving it was so noticable (and roads went to shit so fast) that I traded it in for a 4WD Jeep Wrangler. When times are bad it's stupid to advertise personal wealth.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 15:20 | 6589767 jakesdad
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I bought an is350c (convertible lexus) couple yrs ago as my mid-life crisis car - it's nice enough to get noticed & occasional comment but not so flashy to scream insecure douche w/a small penis...

 

right in the sweet spot!  :D

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 13:59 | 6589322 VWAndy
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That stall thingy.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 13:59 | 6589323 Niall Of The Ni...
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Rubbish. Only people who don't matter get their cars burnt. The PTB could stop France's frequent carbecues any time. They just couldn't care less.

Anybody who matters, if he can't get where he's going by private jet, takes a bullet-proof limo---with automatic machine guns installed for the benefit of anybody daring to approach his betters. Go ahead. Try torching one of those suckers.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:20 | 6589450 PleasedToMeatYou
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They say that Molotovs to the tires will set them afire.  Hot flaming rubber will burn long enough to explode a gas tank, I heard. 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:37 | 6589547 slammin_dude
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50 BMG, molotov cocktails, or...blocking the road....shit it's not that hard....also taking over the private airfields?? i mean how hard is it to think more than one step ahead?

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:00 | 6589332 Head_Shots_Work
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Actually - only some hapless liberal idiot millionaires will put themselves in harms way. All the big boys have exit strategies. The problem with crowds is that they are dumber than rocks. 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:08 | 6589368 minion_of_icke
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It's "COULDN'T care less" ffs... second time I've read this on ZH in the past couple of weeks. Couldn't the author afford a proper education? /sarc

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:16 | 6589417 PleasedToMeatYou
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I alredy lernt about that in Callij. 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:19 | 6589442 robertocarlos
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What if you only care a tiny tiny bit? Then you COULD care less but you still don't care.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 15:43 | 6589850 minion_of_icke
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Caring is a discrete function. You either do or you don't.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 18:25 | 6590603 Head_Shots_Work
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I can remember a lot of old girl friends I sorta cared for, really I did. 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:09 | 6589377 swass
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Deflation is the great equalizer.  This is what happened in the great depression and what the Fed and banksters have been desperately trying to prevent.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:29 | 6589498 theyjustcantstop
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I've commented on this before wealth is relative, you can be walking down the street, run across some broke junky coming down off his, or her high, he, or she knows there's a 90% chance you have something worth $20,00,enough for his, or her next high, you now are the richest man, or woman on the block, their going to take what you have, whether it cost you your life, minor injuries, or lose a couple hundred dollars you had to buy your family groceries.

ebt's, and other govt. entitlements are the only reason large cities in america are not full-on war-zones, and politicians know it.

I think there's to be a few million Simon Wiesenthal's, hunting down politicians, and criminal bankers, and their cronies.

what's sad is many innocent will not have fair trials, but they made possible the unjust trials that have happened.

 

 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 15:49 | 6589872 PleasedToMeatYou
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I agree with your point, but isn't there a better analogy than "Simon Wiesenthal". 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:34 | 6589533 slammin_dude
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Ya whatever, your generation strip mined all the wealth from ours and the next 3 generations, loaded us up with debt, fucked us every which way you can possibly concieve and now that some of us can finally buy something nice we "shouldn't" because someone will burn it?

Fuck off! The world is going to shit, at least i'm going to enjoy some luxuries of modern civilization before it all goes to hell.....Advice from the "ME!" generation is like listening to Karl Marx talk about hard work and productivity....or a "liberal" talk about logic....

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:42 | 6589575 RandomWisdom
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The people most at risk are the upper middle class and those pretending to be.  The ultra rich have contingency plans to go under ground with their treasure only to resurface after the culling has run its course. 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 14:55 | 6589636 SgtShaftoe
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When we moved to the country a year and a half ago, we got a real 4x4 SUV with the same logic. It's an older truck with surface rust, but we installed a bull bar, winch, brand new engine, aftermarket performance suspension and virtually everything else. It's a reliable and capable mountain truck that isn't at all flashy.

You can also hit a full sized mule deer or elk at 50 with no damage to the truck.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 18:32 | 6590636 Head_Shots_Work
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Sounds somewhat like my 'lurker' vehicles. Currently a 1998 suburban, engine tuned to the max, awesome transmission, shocks and springs and tires. Looks like shit on the outside. Also - my recent acquistion, a 1995 Lincoln Continental Town Car Excecutive - totally blacked out windows. 100,000 miles, new tires, shocks, hoses, Bible Black. This car just scares the shit out of people. Trunk big enough to put a small car in. 21mpg so not awful. I could drive it through most creampuffs out there without even flinching. My wife's fancy dancy Toyota Highlander - leather airconditioned and heated seats - the whole package (including the totally POS 'top of the line premium sound system') is the one we'll be keeping in the garage. It's great - when I'm in that old burb or the 'mafiamobile' the crowds literally part to let me go through.  

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 15:12 | 6589732 jcdenton
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If we listen to recent Bill Holter and Jim Sinclair and maybe even the Canadian Rob Kirby, we could be experiencing soon a period of "Mad Max" scenarios. They could be as short as a month, and/or as long as a year.

However, a contingency has been put into place. It has been in a planning and implementation stage for up to 35 years. So, I would prepare for a transition period of 30 to say 90s days. Beginning around the first part of October. Hopefully, if all goes well we can expect a pleasant Thanksgiving and Christmas (which is actually the conception but another discussion).

https://app.box.com/s/hfgvcqg7gqh7i27at6sv53ywu87lwarp

I hate to rain of the doom and gloom parade. It is going to be tough for a time. Prepare for that. Like and extended hurricane, or post a F3 tornado, or a mild (survivable) earthquake. But someone engaged in forward thinking and prepared for the rainy/stormy days coming. Have heart. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Why have you never heard of such news you might ask yourself. I attempt an explanation in the Read Me First. This all better explained via complete comprehension of context of the archive presented. This can't be explained in a sound bite via Fox News, CNN, CNBC, et al. It can't be fully explained in a full page op ed at the NYT or the Dallas Morning News. For some, the full satisfaction would entail 2 full college semesters at the post-grad level. It could take 10 seasons of a TV docu-drama series. Writing this out and publishing it on paper would be encyclopedic ..

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 16:50 | 6590166 PoasterToaster
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What will be funny is just how much better everything will be without the overlords loving hand on our heads.  Contrary to the Mad Max threat they have always held over us.

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 18:37 | 6590666 Head_Shots_Work
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I'm in agreement, civil unrest due to a breakdown in our grid or 'just in time delivery systems' would be overwhelmed if it occurs on a large regional or national basis within a week. We don't have enough police and military to be everywhere and many of the local gendarmes will be taking care of their own. if you have ever studied what went down during Katrina - then multiply it times 100. Better have a good prepared community of friends in a rural/semi-rural locale. Could take weeks to months for things to sort out dependent upon what kind of scenario is taking place. 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 20:46 | 6591226 Chad_the_short_...
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The jew will make sure every rich person BUT the jews get attacked. 

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 21:53 | 6591432 DipshitMiddleCl...
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think ill be okay in my beater 2001 f150 and my 2002 honda civic si

 

:)

Fri, 09/25/2015 - 03:15 | 6591939 Promethean
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I think it would be wise to "invest" in a few good quality machetes.

Silent, effective and they never run out of ammo.

Think of then as an ultra portable guillotine and think of all the fun one could have trying to lop off the head of some scumbag banker with one try.

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