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The global corporate empire is final imploding. Even Trump knows this, as he rode the glorious "deaths of despair" strategy to victory. In that sense he was far more honest than the competing "everything is awesome" camp, which is why he got elected. The toll corporations have taken on this planet and on the human race is inestimable. The net beneficiaries of this way of life have been fewer and fewer, on the way to no one. The Occupy movement attempted to reform the immutable system, when the only real way was to sit back and watch it implode, by way of "business as usual" - The linear extrapolation of self-destruction. In the meantime we are just living the well-marketed delusion that won the last election. 

And getting in the way...

I am finally realizing that, as fun as it may be, railing away at today's denialistic Consumption Borg is both pointless and futile. People believe what they want to believe even if it brings inevitable self-destruction. We see this in our own friends and family all the time. Try having an "intervention" and see how that works. At the societal level our span of control is even more non-existent. As I've said many times when a problem grows beyond the capacity of a society to fix it, then denial is as much the solution as a drawback. Because it hastens the badly needed "reset". 

  

Given the inordinate array of variables we are confronted with, human beings by necessity must fall back on linear extrapolation, by way of ordering society. Nothing would get done if people didn't believe in some concrete version of the future, regardless of how asinine the assumptions. The narrative they come to embrace is more "real" to them than the constant flow of information overload indicating that reality may be deviating badly from "plan". After all, investments have been made, both in terms of time and money. What good would a discounted cash flow model be if it inexplicably terminated halfway to the payback point. We must dance like well trained monkeys while the music is playing.

So while humans surely can't order reality, the next best thing is to order society, which no surprise is the overwhelming preoccupation of the human race - to develop competing narratives that capture the imagination of the masses and otherwise convince them to believe something that seldom is in their own best interest. Which is what the political system represents - a group of people voting for a well-marketed version of the truth. By way of creating a human ordered reality at the polling booth, oblivious to the constraints of the natural world. 

The "time to live" for best laid plans varies from cycle to cycle depending upon the extenuating circumstances. And some would say that predicting when a given "cycle" will end or even how it will end is a fun parlour game at best. A fool's errand at worst. Be that as it may, the steady second derivative drumbeat of this cycle has been the final erosion of the corporate way of life: The competitive consumption-oriented lifestyle. It's now bankrupt in every way possible - financially, morally, environmentally, and humanly.

It's so far beyond failure it's killing its own subjects at an astronomical rate. Think of what Fentanyl represents, it's the  synthesization of heroin but at a fraction of the cost. And at the same time an analog to the prescription painkillers dispensed by the Deathcare system for decades to an aging society of consumption addicts now in a state of chronic diabesity and chronic pain. When taken in conjunction with the typical consumption-oriented lifestyle, it's essentially corporate-assisted euthanasia. Soylent Green. 

Likewise, at the economic level, what are stock buybacks if not an admission that the economy has been cannibalized to the point that there are no more worthwhile investments to be made. Supply and demand have now been wholly supplanted by supply and debt. Therefore, a stock buyback program taken to its logical conclusion is merely a plan to take a company private by buying out the existing shareholders. While bypassing the economy entirely. Forty years ago stock buybacks were illegal, today they are 4% of GDP. By no coincidence the same level as the U.S. deficit, and U.S. "growth". Every new dollar of debt falls straight to the bottom line into buybacks and out the door to the Cayman Islands via insider selling. 

What does our corporate controlled government that enables this corruption have to recommend for it?

What does our higher education system that gives the imprimatur of approval to this failed way of life have to recommend for it?

What are the corporate media doing other than monetizing confusion?

My greatest epiphany throughout this era is that the only valid belief system is reason. Because without reason there is no sanity.

And without sanity, there is no chance of getting out of the asylum.