Ammo Dump Earth

Comments inspired by Patrick Lawrence: Full-Dress Irrationality.

"Biden wastes an additional $105 billion"—but America can't afford school lunches or public education. The Fed can't find the money. 

"The Racket" existed way before 'The Vietnam Syndrome'; it is an American affliction rooted in waves of colonial violence motivated by "Great Men of History" and their brilliant philosophies. The Enlightenment could have brought the world into an age of Enlightenment but instead withered into the black death of avarice—an operatic conflagration of The Seven Deadly Sins fueled by percolating ancient carbon-based life forms.

No majority of citizens in the United States can stop Congress and its funders from doing what THEY want. The system's logic has programmed our leaders to continue playing The Great Game as long as possible.

Americans are there to borrow and consume—that's their job.

The Super-Smart guys in the United States are working to accelerate the collapse. Depletion and destruction (creative destruction) is the most lucrative thing they can do. The Great Game is about controlling resources and the wealth those resources generate, from material commodities to the data generated by their debt peons. Their madly defended delusion is that they and theirs will survive the die-off of the plebs and proles due to overshoot in their bunkers, fortresses, or on Mars. They are exceptionally selfish and arrogant. There is no limit to their hubristic ambitions. They are psychopaths. 

Tragically, most well-meaning professionals trying to do good get their budgets from these lunatics. They can't do their good work without going along with the status quo, effectively negating most of their efforts to save civilization from its idiotic sociopolitical and economic religion—A.K.A., endless economic growth and materialism.

Influenced by status, toys, and consumerism, ordinary people pay little attention to The Great Game, and even if they know that the system is designed to take everything meaningful away, they feel powerless to do or say anything. And, of course, they have their culture wars cooked up by the communications machine that captures their data and attention 24/7/365.

We are heading into a dangerously tumultuous period where circumstances will dictate that we live as in ancient times. Global institutions will disappear, displaced by tribalism. Can the transition from complexity to simplicity be gentle, kind, and peaceful? Are people capable of that? 

If you want to prep for the changes in the most powerful country in the world, you need to sell ammunition; then you'd be able to afford that bunker and the luxury of pathological delusions.