Not Quite the Apocalypse

We are in deep doo-doo, and it will get worse, but it’s not the End of the World.
Having once tasted civilization, humans are loathe to go back to something less. Granted, most of humanity haven’t seen that “something less” in the fullest sense, but every time they get a taste of it via psychopaths and predators, they realize it’s no fun. People tend to be self-organizing, and some societies more so than others. Having lived in Europe, I can tell you the Dutch would recreate a very secular civilization all by themselves, and the Germans would try to impose theirs on the rest of the world out of self-preservation. This has nothing to do with their governments, but the habits of the people.
America has suffered much from destructive major social influences. As the economy collapses further, we rightly expect more people to become predators. It will be bad enough to require vigilante law, and pretty harsh at that. The official government in most contexts will come apart. Too many government officials are themselves of the predator mindset, the kind of folks who become predators when you turn them out. That’s how they got into government service in the first place. We’ve had really bad government for a long time, and only the social structure and the luck of timing in economics kept it working. We won’t do as well as the Dutch, Germans, or even the French or Italians. The Greeks will be very different from us, so I’m not sure “better or worse” is a useful label. That’s simply my impression from having dealt with the people, but Americans really suck at this kind of thing because the influence of TV, movies, other popular entertainments, and our utterly senseless education system.
America is the world’s greatest consumer of mind-bending drugs, both legal and illegal — that should explain a lot.
That there is a global predator class steering much of our decline is simply too obvious to pretend it’s a mere conspiracy theory. The conspiracy is real. I seriously doubt it’s run by folks approaching omnipotence and/or omniscience, even in the relative sense. They aren’t any smarter than the most intelligent folks outside their circle, and their servants simply don’t understand.
What I’m really saying here is I claim to see things they can’t or refuse to see, and whether I am any smarter is hardly the issue. I’m banking on an extrapolation — by following the advice of a bunch of folks who wrote a collection of ancient literature we call the Bible, I’ve had a really good success at what they seem to consider important. I’ve followed the advice of some other folks who seemed to understand those ancient writers in arriving at some of these conclusions, and as I attempt to explain the broader world around me, that ancient wisdom seems to hold up well. Their claim to speak for the Creator and Master of the Universe seems to hold up, too. So I’m using my limited intelligence to make sense of what they say I should expect, and I’m sitting here muttering about it to anyone who will listen.
And I say these Illuminati are chasing something which they can’t obtain. They have tremendous influence, and most of them are truly brilliant, but I think their assumptions are badly broken. The problem I see is, too many of those who claim to share my reliance on the Bible share too many assumptions offered by the Illuminati, either as propaganda, or as instruction.
I agree with Vox we are actually in a hidden deflationary spiral. Most of what we call money which we count, and which we measure as available to be used as “money supply,” is credit in virtual space. Credit is simply the willingness of someone to let you borrow on the promise to repay with interest. That willingness is fading fast. This portion of the money supply is about to collapse, and we will end up with a far smaller money supply. A few folks get this, and most of them are the predators trying to keep you from understanding it. They want to trap a lot of people in the system they are about to crash on purpose, because your trust in that system keeps available the things imaginary money can buy, and they plan to buy a lot of that right before they pull the trigger.
That’s the reason for all these hurried fraudulent repossessions and foreclosures. Those things are real property. The real problem is whether the system by which ownership can be enforced will hold up. It’s not just law, but a social contract, a common assumption we all have to abide by certain limits. There are limits to what the current system can enforce against a mass population no longer supporting the rules. This is the part I doubt any group of Illuminati can calculate, and certainly not their vast army of servants. That the vast army of banking elite here seems too deeply invested in managing the coming chaos convinces me they aren’t the Illuminati themselves, who would surely have a better plan.
If not, then the Illuminati are a lot more fragile than I thought. Frankly, I think they plan on getting most of humanity to kill each other. This is far easier than most folks imagine, but at the same time, actually quite hard to accomplish. That is, it’s not hard to get us into war, but actually killing large numbers all at once is not that easy. Most of the previous mass slaughters can’t be repeated in the current situation.
TPTB didn’t do a good job of squelching the 2nd Amendment, and there was too much money to be made in selling small arms and ammunition. Mark this up as much to sheer incompetence of the servants (we were never supposed to find out about “Fast-n-Furious” nor see through it) as to miscalculating the peasant resolve and ingenuity. So instead we’ve seen a very fast development of a new class of weaponry. But then, the scandalous profit-taking of the defense industry has crippled that, too. Lots of our fancy military toys simply don’t work. We are left with the assurance initial attacks by the government forces will be devastatingly hideous, then the equipment will come apart and the peasants will start winning. You’ll have to figure in the lack of commitment from the government troops, because very few of the police types are real heroes any more, and those who are will realize it’s all wrong and quit. It’s the military and portions of the federal LEOs which are the real threat. The system draws those with weak or no morals, and makes them worse. But they are vastly outnumbered, and for every current combat seasoned troop in uniform, there’s at least ten civilians with similar experience, and perhaps much better moral resolve.
So here in the US, it could become a real mess compared to the rest of the world. On the other hand, even the rebel patriot types don’t know whether they will do anything when it comes down to it. There is a vast potential which is simply unknown and unknowable. However, it is wholly improbable any actual hostilities would be that wide spread. There are flash points you can probably estimate with some research, but history shows that’s how things happen. Most Americans will not be involved in any bloodshed, and it’s likely most won’t even have a direct observation of any.
But I rather expect the current federal government will dissolve. That’s because it simply cannot keep working, and the people running it have shown a spiteful resolve to keep it going on its current path. They are the ignorant servants of the Illuminati, for the most part. Watch for who disappears when it starts coming apart, though. I’m half expecting the system will break rather suddenly, but it won’t be for awhile yet. These idiots are going to push too far at some point, and I find Americans far more tolerant than most of the alternate or underground press. That has to do with the social psychology of activism, and how folks who make the most noise are not those who make the decisions in a revolution.
I’m quite certain the identity of the folks who actually lead the way will surprise most of those posting on the alternative sites today. I can’t predict what will fill the void when the current system comes apart. There are too many really fine heroes hidden out there, and too many really smart predators, as well. It will also take longer than most of those commentators expect, but will arise from something none of us can predict. I seriously doubt anyone will take an interest in what I call God’s Laws or His requirements for government and social structure.
Nor would I expect the Illuminati to have this all mapped out accurately. I doubt they’ll go away, but their plans will be shot down, and it will be a long time before they get anything started again. And, I believe all this crap will come about while I’m alive.