For some of you, this won’t be anything new. I believe I’ve been pretty consistent on what we can expect from this time of tribulation. The only thing new would be a few contextual refinements, things no one could have foreseen. But in broad general terms, nothing much has changed.
The major corporations will continue to metastasize like cancer, forming almost a separate economy. They are absorbing everything, consuming all the productivity and credit (future productivity) and crushing other sectors of the broader economic system. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. It’s very much the Walmart Effect: out-competing all the little guys in town until they all close. The big store will capture all the economic activity, absorb all the business, and then drop the value of what they offer against the price, like any monopoly.
Right now, the stock market has no relationship at all with how us little people live. We aren’t included in their prosperity. We’ll be sucked dry by a rentier system. The coming economic distresses will hit the lower edges first, working its way upward. But the system itself will break from other causes.
For example, AI. All the available credit is being absorbed, to the tune of roughly a trillion dollars, to fund the build out of facilities. Further, all the memory chips and processors that the industry can produce will be sucked up. Whatever devices you have now will have to do, because the prices of computer hardware has already approached double, and it will continue to rise. I didn’t see this coming by my analysis, but by conviction. I upgraded all my computer hardware over the past year because my convictions warned me this would be the last chance for a while.
I’m still doing the same with my bicycles even as I write this, because the hardware prices are soaring. I’m buying from old stock when possible, because convictions tell me that bikes will become even more critical for my future activities, though I don’t yet see exactly how.
I’m watching out for censorship. A lot depends on the source and means of it. Under Biden, it was globalism that associated me with a large dissident population to which I didn’t actually belong. That was one kind of problem calling for its own path of resistance. If the current regime does something similar as a matter of course, it will be a slightly different kind of problem. Their methods are limited to a certain range of things.
If it starts to happen because Zionists notice me, it will be lumping me in with the pro-Palestinian cause, even though I don’t support Palestine. If the source of pressure comes from Zionist Christian groups, it will be associating me with the broad anti-Dispensational crowd, and that would be accurate. They would use a different set of tactics. It could be a combination of both, and frankly that is what I consider most likely. That would be less likely to result in censorship, per se, and more like propaganda attacks.
Propaganda attacks would include things like waves of sock-puppets trying to post nasty comments here, reputational threats posted online elsewhere, trying to get me kicked off the service provider, etc. If we add in the neocon influence, it could mean debanking and a host of AI bots digging in my background, or worse. I’m keeping an eye on trends in the political wrangling online. The problem with AI is that it can so easily fake stuff in my name that I would never support. It would be hard to think of anything worse than to have my message contaminated by fake material. It would be very easy to do with intercepting my email traffic or planting fake comments on forums I’ve never heard of (previously this was called a “Joe Job” when done manually).
But AI can easily do much more that we can’t even predict right now. Some uses are quite intentional, but we are already seeing uses that were never intended. Imagine those vast AI hardware farms directed to overwhelm the traffic on the Net so that ordinary human users can’t even get a word in edgewise? Passive consumers of content would never know the difference, but genuine content providers would suffer filtering. What if the AI bots were controlled by neocons? What about bots controlled by wokies?
It would no longer be necessary to assassinate people like Kirk if their message was swamped in the first place. I’m expecting to see something like that, as well.
Here’s the thing: Our God is at work in the midst of all this. Right now, too many people are comfortable and unwilling to consider their path in life. Only when their world is shaken do people stop and consider spiritual matters, when they have nothing else left. While a lot of people are going to suffer randomly, God is watching a small handful of His Elect who need to be shaken from their comfort zone to awaken. The numbers of covenant people right now are minuscule, but we shall see a good harvest of souls from the torments of the future.
