"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men" - George Orwell
For most of the past seventy years the greatest threat to this species and planet was thermonuclear warfare. Now, the greatest threat to this species and planet is the corporate way of life. Globalization is a human and environmental disaster on an unprecedented scale. The failure of which was self-evident in 2008, and yet compliments of ongoing monetary bailouts, the disease was allowed to continue to consume the planet. Fear is the overriding human emotion, and right now fear is existential. Manifest in obligatory denial.
Unacknowledged by the Idiocracy at large, during the past decade, Globalization has collapsed the developed world down to Third World status. Which has been merely papered over using every device known to man and many previously unknown: bank bailouts, chasmic deficits, zero interest rates, record monetary expansion, and serial asset bubbles.
And yet for all of the gimmicks, just so long as the contours of global slavery remain intact the sheeple continue to believe in Globalization. It's when would-be reformers start talking about "socialism" that fears the Ponzi scheme might collapse take hold.
And yet for all of the gimmicks, just so long as the contours of global slavery remain intact the sheeple continue to believe in Globalization. It's when would-be reformers start talking about "socialism" that fears the Ponzi scheme might collapse take hold.
Therefore as Orwell reminds us, the depth of depravity is such that the accepted narratives must be of an amnesiac nature to forget the sequence of failure that led to this juncture. Which is what allows failure to be recycled. Corporate Disneyland is final imploding, yet the burden of proof remains on us realists, because the corporate propaganda machine is cranking like never before.
Sadly, the trade wars, rising nationalism, rising hate crimes, and societal acrimony are not a figment of the imagination. They are merely assiduously ignored. Ironically, Trump's election itself was a marker of Globalization's failure, capitalizing on rural deaths of despair; and yet no surprise, his presidency is just another deceptive gambit by the world's rich to plunder the middle class. Under the auspice of being the working man's last, best hope.
The notion of a spoiled dilettante serial business failure being the saviour of the working class, is beyond farcical. Illustrative of the depths of despair.
The notion of a spoiled dilettante serial business failure being the saviour of the working class, is beyond farcical. Illustrative of the depths of despair.
Trump's popularity comes down to the fact that he has tapped into the existential fear:
In times of enormous demographic shift and economic uncertainty, populism exerts a strong appeal for the anxious voter
Trump relies on righteous indignation, blame, and contempt as weapons of war"
Make no mistake, this IS an existential moment, however contrary to popular belief the two opposing sides are not Democrats and Republicans. That's merely the circus spectacle while corporate Disneyland self-destructs in the background. Neither side is prepared for what comes next.
The true enemy is the competitive consumption lifestyle itself, something that myriad addicts don't ever want to admit. They're hooked. They love their corporate infotainment spectacle. They love fake news and fake food. Fake education. Fake science. They love consumption.
But mostly, they love fake reality:
The Learning Channel:
And yet, the cost of this circus keeps mounting in terms of morbid diabesity, mental health disorders, fentanyl suicides. environmental collapse, and mass shootings. All of which is a mere down payment on what is actually owed for the past decade of abject denial.
This is an existential moment for a species that turned its back on reality in order to have mass produced corporate replicas of what used to be real. Watched as it blew up in their faces, and then stewed away for another decade in a toxic waste dump until there was barely anything left to recover.
Disneyland is a choice. And for those who can't give it up, a terminal one. I predict nature will win and the carbon record will be thick. Those who would tell us any different, are just members of the Mickey Mouse club.
And their fear level is about to skyrocket.
And their fear level is about to skyrocket.
