current collapse?

CURRENT COLLAPSE?

You see it every once in a while, the breathless proclamation that The Collapse Has Already Started.  I have stated the same thing.  The collapse isn’t some far away event you can safely ignore, it is already here.  Yet, nobody elaborates on that statement.  You are left either to panic madly or to just ignore, once again, and return to your hedonistic lifestyle jabbering on your cell phone, drinking extra mega-big size Slurpee’s in your soccer mom SUV and eating Popeye’s chicken by the bucket as a Netflix movie snack.  Damn, I’m hungry now, and it is only five in the morning.

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The thing is, all our lives we have heard that The End Is Nigh.  One almost has to think that this was deliberately encouraged on the part of the social engineers ( who, after all, have plenty of extra money from their global drug running or their printing press ).  Like conspiracy theories, over saturated to completely eliminate their validity ( to the point no one wants to see the complete impossibility of the third tower being anything but rigged to pancake), constantly chanting the mantra of Collapse has made the charge largely impotent.

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No, that isn’t Ebonics for “important”.  And, aside from the easy cop-out of “the powers that be did it”, it could be as simple as most people confusing Decline with Collapse.  Or, worse, using them interchangeably.  We have been in a decline, resources running out as population explodes.  I won’t talk much about resources, except in the context of economics.  Economics can influence resources and resources determine economics.  So what determines the difference between decline and collapse?  Really, nothing, except that when you’ve reached the state of collapse, you cannot decline any further.  Perhaps that accounts for the confusion.

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We’ve been in decline headed towards collapse, but we use “collapse” as a Really, Really Super Bad Part Of The Decline.  Yes, it is semantics.  Some might even disagree with me on the definitions.  Which is fine-tomato, tomahtoe.  I’ve even used different definitions.   Regardless, indiscriminately using the word collapse for the entire roller coaster of imperial and energy decline has ruined the meaning for most of us.  Am I mangling the meaning again, by declaring “we are already in the collapse”?  Of course I am.  One might be excused for expecting more from someone who caresses words for a living.

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What I mean, but am not adequately saying, is that the edge of the waterfall is in sight.  The imagery of the decline has included Greer’s stairsteps.  I disagree with this on many levels, including the impossibility of feeding seven billion people on declining petroleum.  But being a Druid Dude, his lens might be too nature orientated and to him a collapse really means an ecological collapse.  Probably the most infamous image of collapse is Hubbert’s bell curve.  Which later morphed into “the bumpy plateau”.  Myself, I’ve always preferred the Waterfall Collapse.  Very slow downhill journey until a sudden plunging fall.

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But we still circle around to WHY I think the collapse is right in front of us.  Why?  Prophets of doom have been wrong so many times Greer uses that as an excuse we will never Fast Collapse.  You know, because, sure, a religious dude screwing up the day of rapture invalidates the possibility that Yellowstone will blow, an asteroid hits or those raghead sheep molesting Muzzies in Pakistan start the process towards global thermonuclear war ( I’m not sure who to cheer for.  Dudes who refuse to eat steak or dudes who refuse to eat Communion wafers ).

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Sorry, it is just the Druids day for mocking and discontent.  I’ve favored Rawles far too many times lately.  Again, why collapse now?  We can all feel it.  Something major is amiss.  Just like in 2007.  We had no idea what was in store for us, but we felt a disturbance in the fabric of the universe.  And why did we?  Because economics.  We knew something was seriously screwed up.  I can’t remember the order of events, so I won’t list all the unease with events such as mortgage company failings and etcetera-we just knew it was past time for badness.

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What is different this time?  Not a whole lot, because nothing got fixed in the last ten years and every time something was amiss it once more set off our panic button.  Suddenly gold surges or suddenly there is the LIBOR scandal, or the Chicago Exchange scandal, or England refuses to give Venezuela the gold it owns.  Whatever.  It never stopped for ten years.  Eight years ago Portugal almost went bankrupt, this week there is a border hot engagement between the Paki’s and Indians.  Everything and nothing seemed to be the moment of impending collapse.

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How can a brother figure all this crap out?  It is a jet fighter spewing chaff all over the radar screen.  They do NOT want us to panic, early or otherwise.  Distractions are endemic.  The Kabuki Theatre is playing both matinee’s AND midnight showings.  Basic institutions have been failing, massively, this entire century.  Why is this year different?  There isn’t one indicator we can point to.  The Baltic Dry Goods Index, King Copper, oil production, GDP, indebtedness.  All have been up and down for over ten years.  Dammit, man, if you are a doctor and not a surgeon, tell me the disease! 

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For me, and perhaps it is just me, once again ( and I’ve written on this before ) I’m at the point I’ve never felt such unease as I am now.  That “disturbance in the Force”.  Damn, why did Disney have to gay up such a great movie ( easy, Lucas did it first and showed the path.  Can you say, Jar-Jar? )?  I’ll elaborate because I think it is important.  Back in 2005, I knew I had to get the hell out of Carson City.  Somewhere, anywhere.  We were rapidly moving towards the Florida Experience, where rent was getting too high to survive.

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I bought a bunch of land in different places.  We tried to move once, but the land was simply too far from town for a bike commute daily ( once a week would be fine ).  I was temporarily defeated and moved back to Carson.  Financially it just got worse, and then the last year before we moved permanently, the unease over the economy in general intensified.  I had five more years of child support, and the ex was a vicious whore who made a honey badger look mellow.  A job was tied to me NOT being in jail.

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That was a time of real unease, obviously.  But it was also easily remedied.  Moving to my own junk land and living like a bare assed savage so I could put every possible penny in prep supplies as quickly as possible helped sooth my panic.  In other words, there was no solution but at least I could lessen the impact of a dangerous situation.  This time?  I’m at a complete loss as to what I could possibly do, and my unease this time also comes from economic vulnerability.

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I know you all look at me and savage jealousy pieces your hearts.  Look at that perfect hair, at his age!  Look at him, self-employed.  Well, every coin has two sides and while I love my freedom from stupid ass moron bosses, working for yourself also means you have to worry about customers.  Working some monkey spanking job, if they close the doors there is always another job even a Mexican won’t do.  Your own business, if that goes under most times you can’t just replace that.  I know, I know, diversify.  The point is, I think there is a higher risk/stress factor.

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So, previous to the 2008 crash, I was stressed about being unemployed when child support was due.  I know I’m funny that way, not wanting to experience prison sex.  Now I’m stressed about being unemployed, perhaps forever.  Both situations were NOT helpless, as I took precautions in both cases.  It was just that the stress factor climbed high enough that I think my Lizard Brain was particularly motivated and attuned to danger.  That is what the Lizard Brain does.  It collects all data your conscious mind skims over or ignores or forgets, then tabulates the danger you are in.

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It isn’t woo-woo crap, mystical crystal gazing crap, feeling the power of the universe crap or any other crappy crap.  It is a biological computer built in to save you from yourself and it works really good.  One part of your brain can worry about social danger and the other about actual danger.  That “hair on the back of your neck standing up” or “that feeling in my gut”, or the “something just told me” feeling, that is your lizard brain alerting you to the possibility of real danger.  It is just calling for a moment of alertness.

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I wasn’t feeling this kind of unease two years ago when I started working for myself.  I had just spent a year saving almost all my take home pay, so there was that security net, but we all know how fast money can go.  I think that all the subtle clues I would lately subconsciously put together as a danger puzzle simply were not there then.  This is the lizard brain warning, not just everyday worry or stress or psychosis.  You may not know the difference but your lizard brain does.  And I think he is squealing in fright right now.  Continued tomorrow.

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