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A Guide To Gracefully Losing Faith In A Collapsing, Dominant Culture
I recall a Buddhist parable involving a stick that appears from a distance to be a snake, causing fear to rise in the perceiver. As the perception shifts upon closer examination, the fear subsides and the relieved hiker continues down the path. Understanding and awareness have a lot to do with how we feel and how we act. As hosts to the dominant cultural mindset (our collective understanding of who we are in the universe), our minds play a critical part in both perpetuating our dominant way of life and also in shifting away from it. And so it’s just possible that I have performed no greater service in my three decades of activism than to simply challenge myself and others to consider the possibility that the social systems that support us and we sustain are inherently incapable of meeting basic human needs and that we must make a fresh start, in a sense, if we are to survive this century and prosper thereafter.
These systems are the largely invisible, cyclical patterns of interaction among and within society’s individuals, institutions and principalities. They include small town school systems all the way out to our globalized economic system and to the mother of them all, our globalized monoculture. You need to perceive the stick as a stick before you can confidently move on, and this consideration is a critical step in transforming the way we live. When an alcoholic decides to sober up, he needs to understand, as AA puts it, that he is powerless to the substance. This understanding is a necessary condition for recovery. Likewise, about 7 billion humans living on our planet are powerless to make our global systems support equitable, sustainable, enjoyable living. Further, we are powerless to use the tools of these systems to prevent our world from crashing down on itself.
In a few critical ways, our global monoculture dates back to the Mesopotamian settlements our history texts associate with the Agricultural Revolution. Over the millennia, this rapidly expanding cultural system, under the guise of various imperial masks, has come to produce predictable results, terrible and also quite marvelous. The terrible includes unrelieved poverty for the majority of the world’s population, widespread unhappiness and spiritual alienation, even (especially?) among the wealthy 10 percent of the world’s population, and the unsustainable use of natural resources. This last result seals our present day ultimatum – our culture and our survival as a species have become incompatible. As if possessing a will and mind of its own, the culture has a voracious appetite for assimilating all cultures into itself and then separating every thing under its umbrella from every other thing into the smallest possible units, mainly to compete with each other. Its compulsion is to consume and waste, grow and expand, dominate, control and compete at a speed and intensity that is destroying the societies we assume it has evolved to serve.
The systemic template of our civilization’s form of social organization is a domination or hierarchical model, in contrast to the tribal or partnership system, which is still fully operative among isolated tribal people and recessively, in remnant forms, throughout our society. Our institutions, even small ones, are virtually all hierarchical – power, wealth and status are concentrated in individuals occupying the higher positions of a pyramidal organizational structure. In contrast, a group of friends arranging for a day together at the park is more likely to organize itself and otherwise behave in a tribal or partnership fashion. Some nuclear and even extended families exhibit partnership qualities, as do cooperatives and collectives.
Despite the predictability of what is, in other ways, a very chaotic and patchwork culture, social innovators, entrepreneurs and activists continue even in this late and desperate hour to put their best energy into trying to make this system work. Though stepping from our prevailing way of life to a better one must be done in fact and not simply in our minds, I sense that we are forestalling the necessary leap in part because too many of us remain not only actively invested in the prevailing way, but mentally invested as well. And there are lots of folks who at some level perceive that things have deeply soured in our world but who, like the townspeople adoring their naked emperor, keep this outlook and associated anxiety well guarded, and carry on. Indeed, though the system as a whole is failing, individuals in society are rewarded with survival goods for maximizing their effectiveness within the system. And just as our collective faith holds up the currency and the economy it serves, our collective faith is also what ultimately keeps civilization itself, and its supporting culture, afloat. Our active cooperation with the systems and structures of the culture is an expression of this faith.
Though I press myself into the service of partnership community building as an alternative to this, I also express through my actions a reluctant allegiance to the big culture and systems upon which my survival depends. Yet as I personally go about my daily business in life, I carry with me some fluidly changing version of the following reminders to help reorient my thinking:
- Release your faith, Jim, in the capacity of our dominant culture, its systems and tools, to save us from social oppression, economic collapse and biological extinction. Though some of its tools (solar panels?) may be employed in the cultural hereafter, they are useful only in a marginal way in the current cultural context. Culture, as a function of how people think, understand and see the world, is the locus or hinge of social change. It is, for example, the source and determinant of technology. Promising and threatening technological advances (and potential advances) in bioengineering, fuel cells, etc., are very important, but secondary, concerns. “Keep your eyes on the prize” of cultural shift.
- Our culture, however it serves us, is now collapsing. I can’t imagine that any anthropologically trained space visitor would conclude otherwise. With each passing day, a newborn child stands less of a chance than a child born the day before of absorbing, internalizing and embracing what the grownups need to pass on to them to assure the culture’s survival. Teenagers and other adults are anxious and dis-eased. I assume that the rate of demise is of an exponential magnitude and that we’re now in the ‘moving very, very fast’ stage. We are also destroying the habitat our biological lives depend on at a similar rate. This is a collapse on two (related) fronts.
- Practice seeing the world as it is, in its genuine meaning, as interpreted by your most honest wits. Process attendant pain with others. Pay particular attention – honest attention – to young children. Resist writing off absurdities and horrors as normal, as business-as-usual, as just-the-way-the-world-is, as in ‘toddlers/teens just behave that way’. Allow yourself to witness and feel the effects of a desperate and dying culture.
- It may be possible to stop or even prevent a war, move more poor people into affordable housing or to make a nonpolluting car. Efforts like these are necessary. Keep making them, but also keep in mind that while they cushion systemic blows and enhance the lives of individuals (perhaps millions of them), these measures will not directly alter our cultural or systemic trajectories. If you teach a child to read in school, or campaign for school reform or more public expenditures for the school system, keep a third eye as you go on a not too distant future in which children, as fully reintegrated members of their communities, learn, grow and become strong, healthy adults in some manner very different from what they experience in today’s institutional settings.
- Try to be a responsible, centered, loving person. It’s good for you and the world. But while bad people exacerbate social problems, they are not the problems. Likewise, good people are not the solutions. Though individuals make consequential choices, systems rule for the most part. The force of our dominant culture – as a system itself – and the many social, economic and political systems flowing within it drive and shape much of what we do, how we live and even many of the smallest choices we make. Car driving, as an example, is a terribly polluting, resource depleting, violent and isolating activity, but at the same time it is a very rational, life sustaining practice performed routinely by good people everywhere. Invisible systemic forces within the flow of our culture, and the structural manifestations of these forces, compel it. We will therefore have to change the cultural flow, create systems that work for people generally as they are. We will never get our current systems to work by trying to make people in them better, as many of us have been struggling to do. Look to see (and change) systems more and blame (credit or change) individuals less.
- Unlike physical systems, the social systems that shuttle us around, as powerful as they are, are also paper-thin. They are vulnerable to change, even rapid, dramatic change. They have structural and material manifestations that seem overwhelmingly formidable, but our social systems are ultimately sustained through the sponsorship of our minds. This principle was demonstrated in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, an effect of a private conversation that snowballed into a movement with irrepressible force.
- Have faith that people can live equitably, sustainably and happily and that we are ambitious and inventive enough to fully recreate the way we live. ‘Where there is a will there is a way’ applies. Generating will requires awareness. For sure we are facing a profound social and psychospiritual challenge associated with cultural collapse and transformation. Humans are also stunningly adaptable. People are stuck, tethered to the dominant system, but as we become aware that our cultural Titanistad is really going down, enough people will scramble to invent and to cut paths for others to follow. One method our culture uses to bolster our faith in it is to convince us that we can’t live any other way:
- We’re not good enough (starting with innate depravity).
- It’s up to the people in power to make big change.
- The weight of change itself is too heavy (as if it’s all on my plate).
- Or, there simply is no viable, even thinkable, alternative to the basic competitive, hierarchical framework we’ve been living under.
Confront and challenge these familiar mantras as they creep into your mental projections.
- Look out for and pay attention to forward-reaching experiments. For some time, cultural innovators have been trying to experiment a way out of the dominant mode of living. Many of these social experiments are small, perhaps even conventional-looking trials. Many fail, which is par for the course of change. In trying to assess an experiment in this regard, ask yourself, ‘Does this experiment point to a world, say ten or twenty years out, that I would want to live in if the experiment were to succeed?’ I would cite Gaviotas, of rural Columbia, and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, of Boston, as two large-scale examples that inspire this kind of change. Catch yourself dismissing outright any person or group trying or saying something strange and different, then lend support to those pointing to a world you really want for you and our children.
- Don’t get stuck on, or worry over, what the world or your part of it is going to look like or how everything is going to fit together once the cultural dust settles. Contemplating ‘What if’ and ‘How are we going to’ obstructions might itself be the biggest obstruction. We have to move forward and out of where we are. A mass redeployment of creative energy and focus, driven by cultural shift, will produce results that are unimaginable to us now. ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’. Internalize the necessity.
- The dominant cultural vision is not one of global diversity, but global assimilation. It imagines every person living essentially the same way, speaking the same language, trading in the same currency at the same store. Assume that creating a new way of life in the ashes of this vision will be closer to creating new ways of life. The tribal/partnership system has a very good and long track record as a basic form of social organization for humans, but:
- this form allows for genuine cultural diversity and countless ways of living beyond the basic form;
- people may invent civilizational forms that work in ways our current form doesn’t; and
- there are options and possibilities other than these two basic forms.
- As you free your thinking in these ways and relieve yourself of the burden – in your mind at least – of trying to make our systems work, encourage others to do the same and link up with an experiment in progress and/or innovate yourself. But even if you make no outward change in your life, this perspective shift will bring us significantly closer to a much, much better world, especially if you risk a conversation now and then. How we perceive and how we think are powerful forces of change.
- Find like-minded people to support and to support you. There are millions of people suffering various kinds and degrees of oppression and desperation as they try, often in isolation, to negotiate our troubled world. When hands and minds are joined and we begin to see that the source of our trouble isn’t located in us, only some of the symptoms, we create a bond with enormous potential for change. ‘Where there are two or more gathered’ for this kind of conversation and mutual support, anything can grow from it. There is a ‘tipping point’ somewhere in this social transformation and your small contribution is very likely a needed one. As such, it is also a decisive one.
I have to honestly think of myself as deeply cynical and hopeless in relation to what I believe our cultural systems and institutions can ultimately provide us. A new deal with the old dealers won’t save us. New dealers in the same game won’t either. A new game, or an assortment of new games, might. The needed change is fundamentally a cultural change, not a piece of legislation or a piece of technology, and it is a change that is struggling from many directions to break through. The mainstream culture is focused on news-making individuals, institutions and events – not systems – so this cultural shifting is relatively invisible and under-reported. Have faith in it, be on the look out and maybe even jump in somewhere.
66 Comments on "A Guide To Gracefully Losing Faith In A Collapsing, Dominant Culture"
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 1:57 pm
This article is crap. America’s finest days
are ahead of us. We won’t run out of resources
because our military can blow up any country
and easily win a resource war.
And Friday evening me and Mick burnt
up a 7 foot high stack of Chinese wood
pallets, 3 old sofa’s and a set of radial tires.
We also had big blocks of white styrofoam
from buying Chinese flat screens.
The smoke could be seen for miles.
It’s making America Great Again.
onlooker on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 2:08 pm
The ideas in the above article are very good. And they serve as the template for some future society. However and I think the author hinted at this, they cannot save us collectively from the dire and grim destination we are headed for. That is because at its core we have overshot our carrying capacity for this planet as a species. It is purely an ecological matter. So no amount of cultural adaptation or change can allow us to solve this underlying predicament. Only via a die off of quite a number of humans along with a more benign economic throughput from the remaining humans can any hope exist of our species continuing in any sort of coherent non chaotic manner. The wild card is climate change and its incredibly disruptive potency.
Apneaman on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 2:20 pm
GSR, are you getting your cut? You should since you are paying for all that muscle.
Here’s How Much of Your Taxes Have Gone To Wars
“As of Monday, the average American taxpayer will have paid nearly $7,500 to fund the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria since the 9/11 attacks, according to previously unreported Pentagon budget data sent to Congress this summer.”
http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2017/09/taxes-united-states-war-iraq-afghanistan-syria/141337/
Apneaman on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 2:33 pm
Looks real fucking graceful.
Puerto Rico. Advanced showing of what collapse looks like.
Puerto Rico now seems to be the first nation state, such as it is, to be destroyed by climate change…
https://damnthematrix.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/puerto-rico-advanced-showing-of-what-collapse-looks-like/
Graceful denial
The Media Really Has Neglected Puerto Rico
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-media-really-has-neglected-puerto-rico/
Graceful leadership from the Cheeto
Trump attacks Puerto Rico mayor: ‘They want everything done for them’
President’s tweet accuses Carmen Yulín Cruz of ‘such poor leadership’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/30/donald-trump-attacks-puerto-rico-mayor-carmen-yulin-cruz
onlooker on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 3:07 pm
Governor of Puerto Rico said the followingL
We have 100 percent of land-line telephones working now,” Rossello said…”
That sounds highly dubious. Sounds like much self congratualations is already going on amid the devastation and suffering of the people. Yeah graceful indeed.
Hello on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 4:21 pm
Importing negros and other assorted 3rd world sludge is never a good idea.
A few, that’s ok, to put on display in a zoo, sure. But millions? To roam free? In a civilized nation? That cannot end well.
dave thompson on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 4:57 pm
I have been working on my own home power generation system using a steam generator attached to my backyard furnace/incinerator.
Using old discarded items found by the side of the road (thanks to mick and speed).
Things like old sofas, mattresses, tires, all kinds of plastics, pallets, cardboard, you name it.
Man, it is making my neighbors mad, but I think it is based on jealousy because I get all the free energy.
Outcast_Searcher on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 5:04 pm
Apneaman, when the hapless and irresponsible Puerto Rico and Greece are the whole world, be sure and get back to us.
Meanwhile, the global economy chugs along year after year in the face of endless denial from doomtards like yourself.
But thanks for playing.
makati1 on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 5:30 pm
“Do you consider debt as income? Before you answer that, let’s perform a thought experiment. Imagine that you had taken a long cruise last fall and charged $10,000 to an American Express card. When you did your taxes this year, would have told the IRS that you had $10,000 income from American Express? Of course you wouldn’t. Suppose a major oil company issues $800 million worth of bonds to develop a new old field. Would the company report that as income to the stockholders or the IRS? Of course they wouldn’t. I am sure those sound like silly questions as the answer is a self evident “NO!” We do not consider borrowed money as income. It is a liability that must be paid back. Then why do we count Federal Government debt when measuring national income? I will leave speculation as to the “why” to the readers and focus on the fact that we do count new Treasury Debt as income.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-28/we-are-already-depression-if-borrowing-money-not-income
“… I believe the U.S. economy is in a depression masked by debt. I further believe there is no indication we have had an actual recovery of the actual economy.”
Exactly what I have been saying for years.
energy investor on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 5:56 pm
Since 2004 I have watched as China grew from 3 million bbls per day of oil consumption (mostly their own production) to now import 8 million bbls per day from countries they now effectively control like Venezuela, and a wide range of North African and Middle Eastern countries.
The USA produces almost none of its own rare earths or uranium, but gets it from China. Energy independent when it imports 7 million bbls per day of crude? Yeah right. Delusional more like!
As we watch the end of American Empire with “Nero Trump” at the helm, we realise that the loss of Pax Americana will not be as bad as the spectacle that the USA has provided in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.
What has changed in our minds about the USA?
At age 70 years I have ALWAYS been a supporter of America – despite its foreign regime change shananigans and commercial exploitation of smaller countries….ever worsening.
Then we have the most grotesque spectacle ever of a golf-playing dick head who has never known poverty, criticising a US protectorate that has been mis-managed and now devastated.
When small Pacific island nations are devastated by a cyclone (your hurricane), we first ship them our first responders to assess the damage and these carry (Rotary) emergency boxes to help families survive the first few days with some dignity. Then we fly into the affected islands, people and materials to begin the rescue and reconstruction, knowing that for the survivors, all they are capable of doing is rescuing what family and possessions they still have. WE ORGANISE AND DISTRIBUTE the aid as their administrative and communication structures have been destroyed – along with water, phone and power.
That the USA as a nation can be so ignorant in the face of the dire need in Puerto Rico, just shows how unfit the USA and its president/ buffoon is to govern that territory.
We watch as Trump complains about the local people’s inability to marshall their resources and marvel at the containers stacked on the docks as evidence of utter and contemptible US incompetence.
America, you have lost your global leadership. You slept while China bought the world’s strategic resources out from under your noses. You never realised that the people of many countries did not worry that you pulled out of the TPPA because you would have screwed it if you had stayed in -to the benefit of Big Pharma, Coca Cola etc.
You have risked losing the respect of your neighbours in Canada and Mexico and are about to learn that BOEING’s strong arm tactics are losing you Britain – your closest ally.
Can you find a way to do any worse? It took Rome some 4 centuries to collapse. You will achieve it in 2 decades. When your USD 5 trillion unfunded public pension obligations are added to your debts and your off-balance sheet derivatives, blow up yet again, who will pity you?
If you cannot help Puerto Rico in their hour of need, you are just a garulous bully who is likely to find the entire playground becoming ever more hostile.
And you will wonder why.
My kindest advice from the bottom of the South pacific is “Get your act together, while you still have time. There is not much time left.”
energy investor on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 6:02 pm
If it comes to taking sides…
Today Australia and New Zealand would favour USA against Russia and China (including the SCO and BRICS).
Tomorrow?
Don’t count on it. You are pissing off too many people.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 6:42 pm
Hi Dave i got a cousin who welded a big square incinerator and he throws in firewood and bags of trash and an occasional sofa cushion. The whole thing is 50 feet away from the house and there are water lines to circulate hot water back to a radiator in the house.
It heats his whole 3000 sq ft house in the mountains. When he doesn’t use that, the natural gas furnace kicks in.
Glad 2 hear U got a similar system. Ya the neighbors dont like the smoke but that’s why they is the neighbors.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 6:44 pm
Bad news Mr. Hello,
all those savages are now your superiors
down at the company so you better knuckle
under, keep it polite, and go out with
them at lunchtime to KFC.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 6:46 pm
Did everybody hear what really happened back
at the Ferguson Riots ?
After white police officer Wilson shot
innocent unarmed helpless black teenager
Wilson, the local population rioted
uncontrollably.
The local black population burnt down all
the businesses and buildings in the
downtown, everything except the KFC’s.
The local police force evaluated
situation, and retaliated by burning
down the KFC’s.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 6:49 pm
Hi Sleep Apnea, dang I appreciate your
explaining that I already paid $7500 this
year to keep our military going.
I want a better deal though.
I want to pay $19,000 and blow N Korea to
smithereens. Tired of Kim Jong Dong playing
around with nukes. Or at least let me
have a couple too. Bored with regular fireworks.
shortonoil on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 7:03 pm
“That is because at its core we have overshot our carrying capacity for this planet as a species.”
Our only shot at maintaining this system would be if we could extract resources from other heavenly bodies. I don’t think that made the budget this year?
makati1 on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 7:05 pm
” Though stepping from our prevailing way of life to a better one must be done in fact and not simply in our minds, I sense that we are forestalling the necessary leap in part because too many of us remain not only actively invested in the prevailing way, but mentally invested as well.”
I made the leap and don’t regret it. Moving from a dying culture to a growing one was the best decision of my life.
“… people can live equitably, sustainably and happily and that we are ambitious and inventive enough to fully recreate the way we live.”
The key word is “fully”. This is my “third life”. Twice before, I recreated the way I lived. Experience gave me the strength to move half way round the world to a new culture and climate. I hit a home run, won he lottery and scored a touchdown all at the same time by leaving the FSofA. No regrets.
Davy on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 7:18 pm
“Today Australia and New Zealand would favour USA against Russia and China (including the SCO and BRICS).”
Include Canada in that group, you all are peas in a pod. Don’t, you think the whole idea of the “against” is the problem? There is no longer the option of deadly competition. If that is the direction we as a global people go in then the end is near. I know, that is how the US has been operating lately. I agree. This includes the trade side of the equation that inevitably always drifts into a hot situation.
BTW, the Anglosphere (minus GB) is not doing anything to be deserving of the position of pointing fingers. The Anglosphere has got wealthy on the backs of Pax Americana. It is not like you did any sacrificing. If Anglos would jump in bed with the Brics it would not take long before the Brics would piss the Anglos off too. I have never come across a group of nations that are so pissed off at others and try to talk about how friendly they are. What’s up with that? What a friggen uptight group of people. It is like you guys think you are special or something. More like spoiled brats who never really mastered greatness and had to settle for second best and got an attitude because of it.
Yea, the US has turned into a disgusting mess at all levels ra, ra, and ra. I agree so the frig what. Shit happens and nations decline and decay that is how life works. Has it ever been any different? NO. This world is flying apart and this will preclude any honeymoons. The techno optimist talk about golden decades ahead but what I am seeing is a nasty mix. Sure there is growth and development but who knows when we put the whole friggen global civilization on a balance scale what is the real dynamics? Is it growth or decay? No one can say for sure. Any doomer or cornucopian who thinks they can answer that question is a clueless. We will know in the review mirror and or when we are in pain and hungry. When will we have no optimism and what will happen then? Will we be at each other’s throat? Likely, because we are at each other’s throat now and times are not that bad.
shortonoil on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 7:22 pm
“If you cannot help Puerto Rico in their hour of need, you are just a garulous bully who is likely to find the entire playground becoming ever more hostile.”
The US federal government is no longer in the business of helping others on this continent. They are far too evolved in being a federal government. It’s a full time job, and it takes every nickel they can steal. Morality has absolutely nothing to do with it. BAU
Davy on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 7:22 pm
mad-kat1, you are so wonderful. Everyone needs to bow before you and ask for your blessings. I for one get sick of hearing how wonderful you are and how horrible my life is. This generally is a sign everything is not well when you have to make the point so much. It points to problems. Are you having problems mad-kat1?
makati1 on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 7:49 pm
Davy, my posts ALL begin with: Makati1
If they bother you, don’t read Them. lol
Yes, I am very happy here, thank you. I share that with anyone who wants to know. I also point out the positives here that do NOT exist where you live, the FSofA Police State Gulag.
“The Bombs Are Still Falling” – MSNBC Urges Government Censorship Of Social Media “To Protect Democracy”
“Georgetown Bank Teller Steals $185,000 From Homeless Customer With Garbage Bag Full Of Cash”
“Therapists Pen Open Letter Blaming Trump For “National Mental Health Crisis”
“”They Won’t Know What Hit Them” Shocking Undercover Footage Exposes Antifa’s “Premeditated” Violence”
“The Financialization Of America… And Its Discontents”
“Trump Tax Plan To Benefit “Top 1%” Most, Cost $2.4 Trillion, Middle Class To Pay More Taxes”
“Exposing The Slimy Business Of ‘Russia-Gate’ (What The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You To Know)”
And on and on…
Davy on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 8:04 pm
And if I don’t then what? You think too highly of yourself mad-kat1. You can’t have your cake and eat it. If you spread hate and discontent and it is in my direction you will get a whiff back in your direction. I have been consistent with this policy for years now. Maybe you need to practice self-reflection or man up.
Dredd on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 8:15 pm
The revenge of Puerto Rico: move to Florida, Texas, and Arizona and vote the psychopaths out of office.
(When You Are Governed By Psychopaths – 5)
makati1 on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 8:39 pm
Davy, I don’t give a damn what you think. Who you are. Or even if you survive to tomorrow. You provide entertainment for those of us here who have an open mind and are not brainwashed. Nothing more. You continually act like a spoiled 12 year old and a bully. Not a rational adult.
deadlykillerbeaz on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 9:16 pm
Oh no! Another cynic!
Good God Almighty, will wonders ever cease!
Orange groves in Florida may not recover. Thank your lucky stars you won’t be subjected to oranges that are worthless, that’s what the useless eaters get these days.
However, if you have ever eaten a real Florida orange, you’re in for a treat.
The commercial store bought orange makes good compost, so wait until the grocer throws them in the dumpster.
They’ll rebuild your soil nutrient base, plus the ground gains water.
Not fit to eat at all.
Lots of words these days, some good, some bad.
It’s all a lost cause.
Life goes on, better get it while you can.
It won’t be long and it’ll all be gone, so you better get it while you can.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ9NrEHSxK8
Have fun ferkrissakes!
makati1 on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 9:29 pm
“The American people are entering a world of slavery more severe than anything that previously existed. Without jobs, dependent on their masters for trickle-down benefits that are always subject to being cut, and without voice or representation, Americans, except for the One Percent, are becoming the most enslaved people in history.
Americans carry on by accumulating debt and becoming debt slaves. Many can only make the minimum payment on their credit card and thus accumulate debt … those with financial assets are wealthy until values adjust to reality.
As an economist I cannot identify in history any economy whose affairs have been so badly managed and prospects so severely damaged as the economy of the United States of America. In the short/intermediate run policies that damage the prospects for the American work force benefit what is called the One Percent as jobs offshoring reduces corporate costs and financialization transfers remaining discretionary income in interest and fees to the financial sector. But as consumer discretionary incomes disappear and debt burdens rise, aggregate demand falters, and there is nothing left to drive the economy.
What we are witnessing in the United States is the first country to reverse the development process and to go backward by giving up industry, manufacturing, and tradeable professional skill jobs. The labor force is becoming Third World with lowly paid domestic service jobs taking the place of high-productivity, high-value added jobs.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-economy-is-failing/5611414
The Great Leveling continues.
Davy on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 9:34 pm
Global research dot com is an extremist site.
makati1 on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 9:42 pm
And also a factual one. The view of the world presented there is much closer to realty than any USMSM media source. Americans don’t want to know the truth. It hurts too much. But that 2×4 of reality is going to hurt even more when it lands between their eyes. It is going to drop them to their knees. Payback is a bitch!
Davy on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 9:58 pm
Some fact some fiction and peddled by opinion. Where is the payback? Your emotions are flaming mad-kat1
Theedrich on Sat, 30th Sep 2017 10:43 pm
Puerto Rico is a perfect example of overshoot. The U.S. seized the territory in an unprovoked war of aggression against Spain (1898), a war “justified” by the “false-flag” sinking of the USS battleship Maine in Havana harbor. The island’s Catholic population was and is predominantly Proto-Mongoloid (i.e., Amerind, with some Spanish admixture) and Spanish-speaking, and with an average IQ somewhere in the 90-95 range. Since 1960 its population has ballooned from about 2.4 million to over 3½ million. Given the low intelligence and gullibility of the P.R. masses, it was easy for their politicians to delude the muddy mess with Latin-American Marxist promises as promoted by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and the Vatican’s Papa Frank. The obvious fantasy was that American Whites, through their swampy government in D.C., would bail them out when the time came to pay the bill for all the freebies. (Political correctness made it inconvenient to point these facts out.) But the fantasy didn’t happen, and the bondholders are now left holding the bag.
Cometh now Señorita María with her 190-mph wind gusts. Since low IQs are typically poor and live in shacks, and the physical infrastructure of muds’ territories is always decrepit, the hurricane had no trouble at all in whisking away their tin roofs, destroying their electric power stations, washing away roads, bridges and wiping out other amenities of civilization.
The result has been a great wailing and weeping in Washington and the Yid media, with the Demonic Party, as expected, blaming the failure for instantaneous recovery on President Trump. The bitchy mayor of the capital city, San Juan, blames Trump for P.R.’s woes, says in effect he is “killing” her sheeplings there because he didn’t wave a magic wand and immediately cure the results of her own and her voters’ stupidity. Sob stories abound, with no mention of the fact that the island’s population, like that of southeast Texas, is largely responsible for the failure to build infrastructure and take precautions against hurricanes, which visit that area annually. It’s Mother Nature’s way of keeping populations within bounds.
But like everything else in America nowadays, the plan is to have no plan, and to assume that Mother Nature will suspend her laws. And, of course, to depend on Whitey to pay all the bills when the easily foreseeable, but unwished-for event occurs.
Go Speed Racerws on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 12:52 am
Hey Mr Makita1 power tools,
Thanks for the global research link.
It doesn’t seem the slightest bit extreme,
it’s comments seem 100% accurate in every way.
Pointing out that the US people have for all
practical purposes lost their country, and are now
just serfs.
As a high-tech US worker, I see first hand the greedy
rich 1% The 0.1%, and even the 0.01% .
They are entirely psychopath freaks, murderous
non-human monsters, criminals, lunatics.
They offshore everything, and they bring in all sorts
of foreigners to work right alongside of us.
People from China, Taiwan, South Korea.
Three people make as little as 25% what we get.
They work alongside us typically up to 1 year st a time.
Lot of them have to go back at 3 months and then
They are gone about 10 days and then they return.
This is to satisfy what little legal rules exist against
hiring foreigners .
The foreigners are nice people.
The nazi psychopath 0.1% of course
enjoy the effect, the US worker is less likely
to get a raise, and he certainly doesn’t.
And get this straight these are not even
people with green cards, thesr are total
foreigners working right here on US soil
In the hesrtland.
Further malice against the US worker by
placing all the factories offshore,
and sending unlimited design contracts
to foreign companies who do the design
work that I once did. They do it and the US
worker merely checks the deliverables.
Of course I think the whole practice is
absurd from political perspective.
The college keep cranking out more
graduates but with so much foreign cheap
hiring and importing them and I am picking them
up at the airport, who will hire them LOL it’s
impossible, or they will get $14 an hour.
Apple and Microsoft is the best work but as
a percentage of the workforce they hire almost
nobody. Nobody is good enough for them.
Three foreigners coming and going they stay
at apartment rentals paid for by their companies
and they drive rental cars during their entire stay.
There is a lot of overhead to flying in foreign
laborers but that is exactly what is going on and
these are the highest of the high-tech jobs
in the country, going to foreigners who don’t
even have a green card.
If you don’t know and see this practice,
then it’s because you don’t work in electronics.
I despise the millionaire billionaire ruling elites
who are unwilling to hire the best and brightest
of those who grew up here and are the authentic
red white and blue.
Th super rich are scum sucking psychopaths who
would kill their own grandma so long as the
deal will get them sufficient proceeds.
In no way whatsoever are American business owners
patriotic, all they want to do is lower American wages
and hire Chinese, bring them right into our own
communities without eve giving them green cards.
Sorry Davy that article is not the slightest bit
extreme, it is accurate, the American worker
Is dispossessed, without proper work or
in income and a slave in his own country.
If you think otherwise your not working in
this economy to look directly into the
Underpaid foreigners eyes working right in
the same office with you.
Thanks Makita 1 power tools I wish the article had
positive elements, it does not. It is accurate and
accuracy results in a gloomy hopeless outlook.
Trump claimed to be the advocate of the American
Worker. LOL he is not. Nor
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 12:59 am
What a god damn piece of shit is the iPhome.
Worst keyboard in the history of human existence
and never never. Never any improvement.
Mother phuckers at Apple don’t even care that
their iPhone keyboard doesnt work.
But Trump urinates on the Amrericsn worker
who elects him. Hillary is a sick evil bitch, an old
bitch nag who had no business even running.
Obama got th lights back on but is a 100% sellout
Of the American worker.
Try Bernie Sanders or just to get a gun and
Shoot ykurself because it’s not possible to make a
living on $20 an hour anyway. That’s what the
Rich Caucasian US masters want to do is kill
every last American worker and replace them all
with Muslims East Indians and Chinese.
And they will never fix the iPhone keyboard they
will just keep taking our money until none
Is left for them to take.
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 4:00 am
What a god damn piece of shit is the iPhome.
Worst keyboard in the history of human existence
and never never. Never any improvement.
An iPhone is intended to make phone calls or text short messages, not to write long texts about burning sofas on Mars. 😉
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 4:27 am
@Go Speed Racerws
Sounds pretty authentic and the conclusion is correct: what is happening to you and Middle America is absolutely intentional. Donald Trump is merely a speed bump on the way towards a world without national borders and everybody getting race-mixed.
The 1% (and we have Davy here as their closet water carrier) wants to own the entire world, they are the new Bolsheviks and NOT “nazi psychopaths” (but Americans always love to cry “fascist” or “nazi” against somebody they don’t like).
Fascists and Nationals Socialists want the opposite of what the (((US 1%))) wants: preserve the purity of the Italian and German Volk respectively. The US 1% in contrast wants to destroy any notion of ‘Volk’ (Folk/People). In this they want exactly what the Soviets of former fame wanted: globalism, that is one world under the control of Moscow or Washington respectively.
Fortunately for the world, there are not enough white Americans serfs left to race-mix with the entire world. These imported ethnicities at some point will say ‘thank you very much’ and take their piece of the American Pie…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yHTpGog0IY
… once the entire diversity shit-pile will blow up right into the ugly faces of the US 1%.
http://tinyurl.com/yb4ru5p9
If you want a country of your own, Go Speed Racerws, you will have to fight for it. Even a former liberal-Republican like Paul Craig Roberts meanwhile says that the only solution is an uprising against Washington.
With almost a century delay, the Americans are now finding out what the Germans already knew in the twenties and thirties: if you do not remove the (((1%))) and put them on the train, they are going to destroy you and put you in their Gulag. It happened to the Russians after 1917…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6p1zxKnDeM
…it will happen to you. Fortunately for the European-Americans there are 700 million in Europe (or rather 640 million minus the British) with an interest to destroy Washington power. We could have a repetition of 1776, but this time it is not the British who need a beating.
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 4:58 am
This is currently the most popular British conservative, more than May:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qktUFVnZDPk
He is a rabiate anti-European, like most elder British. That is exactly what we need. The Brexit negotiations are going nowhere and the British will probably pull out without an agreement.
Now how to break up the West, that stinking sarcophagus of the white race, with continental Europe turning to Russia and China?
Easy: use Brexit to create maximum conflict with Britain, if possible even a desirable shooting war.
How:
Gibraltar.
Spain has long signaled it wants the Rock back, that 1704 anachronism when a Dutch-British expedition force took the Rock fro the Spanish,. controlling the entrance to the Mediterranean and Suez Canal. The Germans could have even prevented the (((Anglos serfs))) setting foot in Italy in 1943 if they had acquired permission to occupy the Rock, but the British bribed Franco into not doing that with Canadian grain, the Germans could not deliver.
Currently the leftist Catalans are probing an uprising against the more rightist nationalist Madrid. One time-tested method for a government to suppress an uprising is to start and external conflict. Remember the Argentinian junta under Galtieri, who used the Malvinas crisis to deflect intention from an internal crisis; that always works.
All the Spanish need to do is occupy the Rock in a Nacht und Nebel action and provoke a standoff between Spain and the UK. Spain could claim that the Rock will be handed back after a Brexit agreement, knowing that this will never happen. For the EU that has military ambitions, the Rock is certainly worth the 60-80 billion euro the UK and EU are currently fighting about. We do not need the British as we have a gigantic Eurasian hinterland that is far more interesting.
Let the fun begin.
WW3: the war between Eurasia and Anglosphere.
If we do not destroy the West now, Europeans will be history, just read the story by “Go Speed Racerws”.
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 5:04 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGQL0WuszJE
Live pictures from RT. Polling stations in Barcelona are open. Expect a massive “Si” for independence.
Davy on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 5:34 am
“The 1% (and we have Davy here as their closet water carrier”
Clog we are both 1% when stacked with the other 7BIL. You want to own your golden decade fantasy but not the 1% label.
“Let the fun begin. WW3: the war between Eurasia and Anglosphere.”
I thought the golden decade was ahead? Now you are admitting to your won civil wars.
deadlykillerbeaz on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 5:38 am
Cloggedonecellbrain, nobody cares about Europe these days except for marauding gypsies and idiot refugees.
If it gets set ablaze, it will be no loss.
Cheers!
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 5:40 am
I thought the golden decade was ahead? Now you are admitting to your won civil wars.
The “golden decade” was a phrase from this Hildebrandt chap from BlackRock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM9_PrBoq9Q
And I agree with the potential for a golden decade in Europe. But getting rid of the multicult Anglo-Zionist rule over western Europe is far more important than yet another decade of boring wealth.
I prefer fighting for a European Paris-Berlin-Moscow over acquiring iPhone-29 and Windows-328.
Davy on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 5:47 am
Maybe that golden decade preached by our board Europhile is made of fools gold. How is Europe going to pay for that shiny 100% renewable economy and support all those old people? We know things are bad in the US. Just spend a day on this anti-American site but look at the rest of the world:
“This Is A Crisis Greater Than Any Government Can Handle”: The $400 Trillion Global Retirement Gap”
http://tinyurl.com/b7mqf7r
“I wrote a letter last June titled “Can You Afford to Reach 100?” Your answer may well be “Yes;” but, if so, you are one of the few. The World Economic Forum study I cited in that letter looked at six developed countries (the US, UK, Netherlands, Japan, Australia, and Canada) and two emerging markets (China and India) and found that by 2050 these countries will face a total savings shortfall of $400 trillion. That’s how much more is needed to ensure that future retirees will receive 70% of their working income. This staggering figure doesn’t even include most of Europe.”
“Pay-As-You-Go WoesThe European nations noted above have nowhere near the crisis potential that the next group does: France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Spain are all pay-as-you-go countries (PAYG). That means they have nothing saved in the public coffers for future pension obligations, and the money has to come out of the general budget each year. The crisis for these countries is quite predictable, because the number of retirees is growing even as the number of workers paying into the national coffers is falling. There is a sad shortfall of babies being born in these countries, making the demographic reality even more difficult.”
“The Wall Street Journal recently did a rather bleak report on public pension funds in Europe. Quoting: Europe’s population of pensioners, already the largest in the world, continues to grow. Looking at Europeans 65 or older who aren’t working, there are 42 for every 100 workers, and this will rise to 65 per 100 by 2060, the European Union’s data agency says. By comparison, the U.S. has 24 nonworking people 65 or over per 100 workers, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which doesn’t have a projection for 2060. (WSJ)”
“Many of Europe’s private pension companies and corporations are also in seriously deep kimchee. Low and negative interest rates have devastated the ability of pension funds to grow their assets. Combined with public pension liabilities, the total cost of meeting the income and healthcare needs of retirees is going to increase dramatically all across Europe.”
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 5:49 am
Clogmeister sir, nobody cares about Europe these days except for marauding gypsies and idiot refugees.
If it gets set ablaze, it will be no loss.
Cheers!
Europe is still whiter than America ever has been. If a country will be set ablaze it will the US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrm_JAnVKzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO1agIlLlhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-Cqkq6zWc
Why do you think Davy has an Italian passport and is a 24/7 doomer? Because he knows what is coming. And so do Makati, Greg and even Ghung.
Now kneel you fool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLwjUyAo34
1945 and perhaps even 1776 are going to be reversed.
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 5:51 am
Dozens of wounded in Barcelona:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/referendum-in-katalonien-38-menschen-verletzt-zwei-davon-schwer-a-1170827.html
Davy on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 6:03 am
“Why do you think Davy has an Italian passport and is a 24/7 doomer?”
Davy does not have an Italian passport yet clogged. Davy said his wife might get him one. I am not really that interested but it would be nice to have. Why not? I am a localist. I plan on staying here at the farm as my future goal. My wife has a wonderful place in Falcade, Italy. Her dad invested his savings in forest land in the mountains. When I was there last 3 years ago we took wonderful walk in the mountains to these lands. Wonderful place but nothing like the farm. I am now to the part in my life where I have no desire to travel anywhere. I am against it because of climate change and I believe the best way to extend our survival is go local. I am preaching and living this way of life. If I travel it is because of obligations to family not pleasure. There is no pleasure in travel for me. It is a pain. I plan on making my last stand at the farm whatever comes. My boys are still too young so I will have to do what it takes to support them. That may mean move if things get bad but when they get of age in 7 years then I will tell them to go where they need to go. I will die here at the farm if it is war or famine. I am no longer interested in moving.
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 6:14 am
Catalonia:
– 6% Spanish territory
– 15% total Spanish population
– 20% economic output
– 25% Spanish export
– 50% Spanish start-up-investment
– 33% Spanish Olympic medal winners
Catalonia: rich city globalist leftists who refuse to pay for Spanish deplorables
Go crush them Madrid!
Davy on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 6:32 am
“Go crush them Madrid!”
Like I have said in the past the Paris Berlin Moscow confederation nonsense is just a smokescreen for authoritarianism and Empire.
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 6:52 am
With Britain gone we can now do what Britain always managed to block so far:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/emmanuel-emmanuel-macron-eu-army-joint-defence-budget-french-president-nato-britain-brexit-russia-a7968346.html
Putin was the first to be received in Versailles (Putin arrives in Mercedes.lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UwJBKOFkM0
Macron is interested in buddying up with Trump, unlike NWO-freak Merkel (Trump waited full four days with congratulating Merkel with her electoral “victory”):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yz7GWNfBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjoT_LL0Nfw
Can you connect the dots?
GregT on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 7:55 am
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again Cloggie. Trump is not the saviour that you believe him to be. As long as central banks control the money, it makes no difference who makes the laws. The hand lthat lends, is always above the hand that borrows.
There is no need for exponential growth, other than a system mired in debt, with interest attached. Even if that little problem could be solved, there still remains the problems associated with population overshoot.
Alternate energy will not solve the monetary problem, and will do absolutely nothing to solve the consequences of population overshoot. There are going to be extremely troubling times ahead for everyone.
Those who are already living well below what we consider to be poverty, will not be affected nearly as much as those of us in the first world, to start. The first wave will be economic, the final wave will be environmental, and will be planetary.
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 7:58 am
May preparing for “chaotic Brexit”:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/theresa-may-briten-bereiten-plaene-fuer-chaotischen-brexit-vor-a-1170833.html
Expect a Cold War between London and Brussels.
Time for secret talks between Brussels and Moscow and Beijing about how to divide the world after the end of American hegemony and WW3 and a massive armament program:
http://tinyurl.com/yaqguroa
Either one of them.
Meanwhile in Barcelona: 337 wounded and counting and many severely:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/newsblog-zum-referendum-krawalle-zwischen-polizisten-und-waehlern-a-1170819.html
Heck if Barcelona can secede, Greater London (majority Muslim) can too. They can even receive clandestine weapons from Eurasia to that aim. It is only a small distance from the coast. Muslims have no problem risking their lives in contrast to the British. They will even let 1400 of their girls be abused for years on end by Muslims. Only reaction? “Please, please don’t call me a racist!”.
Cloggie on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 8:03 am
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again Cloggie. Trump is not the saviour that you believe him to be.
I had indeed my hopes shortly after the election that he could be a Putin, but these hopes were crushed. I still do not doubt his intentions as expressed during the campaign, but he is to a large extent now under control of the (((deep state))), but not entirely.
I think he told Macron to escape from the empire while Europe still can.
GregT on Sun, 1st Oct 2017 8:09 am
The empire’s tentacles include the IMF, the BIS, NATO, and the UN. If any country is to beak free of it’s grasp, the first thing needed is monetary reform. They will not allow that to happen Cloggie, not without war.