I was asked recently, what I considered to be the biggest problem of the current moment, and how would I describe it to my future self. My response was, we are living in an era of great pretending, and if you elevate yourself and pause its actually quite interesting to watch.
The pretending issue goes beyond politics, it’s everywhere. Sure, there was always an era where reality was skewed in favor of one position or another by various groups, people and leaders, where denying the obvious was always odd. However, this current state of our national and international disposition extends far beyond politics into almost everything.
A person would ordinarily expect to see cultural or social pretending as an outcome of political correctness. Denying the underlying social construct behind the rules of the urban society has been the norm for several years. However, the pretending has become so pervasive it has recently extended into finance and economics; places where reality -actual outcomes- used to inoculate facts and figures against pretense.
It is no longer uncommon, heck, it’s become almost standard in this new era, to see CEO’s, CFO’s and even entire boards of directors, maintaining a standard of pretense. It is quite weird to see it happening.
Yes, this era -for a host of reasons- has made delusion somewhat of a norm.
In the social sphere, cultural norms now claim men can have babies, people can choose their gender, labels and pronouns, and everyone else bears the responsibility to conform to the delusion. While goofy, that part is somewhat a weird cultural phenomenon of this western era. If we were not pretending people like AOC would have no career opportunities.
In the political sphere, the axiom of politics being downstream from pop culture is perhaps the reason the infection of pretense has overwhelmed congress and the professional bureaucracies of government. The social pretending has metastasized from the federal level to the state level, and now we see efforts to counteract “wokeism” as a social priority for state and local leaders. It’s weird to see so much time and effort being exhausted on combatting social pretense at every level.
But the more stunning development comes in the sphere of economics, where factual outcomes of transactions are matters of simple accounting. A ledger of sales and profits would normally dictate whether a business was successful or failing, and in the bigger picture would show empirical evidence of the financial health of the community of customers who purchase goods and services.
Under all common norms of economics, if a business was operating at a higher cost than its income; or if the income was to shift or disappear quickly; people would seek to identify the underlying cause. However, in this era of great business pretending, an economic mass formation psychosis has led to complete denial of the obvious.
Accepting the state of the Main Street economy as it is – not as we would pretend it to be, CTH shared several months ago that quarterly profits would be far below expectations, and we would see revised projections from just about every business entity who engages in selling durable goods. People just are not buying stuff because the cost of living and buying energy, food, fuel and shelter, has become extraordinarily difficult. It isn’t rocket science to connect economic dots.
As expected, at a macro-level, topline sales for businesses have dropped or collapsed. Inventories of non-essential products are piling up. Consumers are stressed and/or hunkering down, and general economic activity has slowed dramatically.
None of what is happening is surprising. However, what is surprising is that businesses -while faced with empirical results that describe the situation- would continue pretending.
Yahoo Finance – […] The auto giant Ford warned of a whopping $1 billion profit hit late Monday in the form of higher parts costs, with the company blaming vendor inflation. Ford now sees third-quarter adjusted operating profits in the range of $1.4 billion to $1.7 billion, well below Wall Street estimates for $3 billion.
Somewhat oddly in the face of the major warning, Ford reiterated its full-year operating profit outlook of $11.5 billion to $12.5 billion.
The mood on Wall Street is that Ford’s warning is generally a shocker given relatively upbeat comments on demand and the bottom line when second-quarter earnings hit in late July. Now, the Street is scrambling to mark down profit and valuation estimates on the company.
“Vehicles in transit will be seen as transitory, but surprise inflation is always worrying,” said Evercore ISI analyst Chris McNally in a note to clients, adding that he sees Ford’s stock trading down to about $13 off the quarterly letdown. Citi’s Itay Michaeli also appeared stunned by Ford’s warning. (read more)
The great pretending continues…..
Ahh, but what has caused there to be SO MUCH pretending? In my opinion, it has been caused by three factors:
When life becomes too easy, to some people it becomes not worth living whether they realize it or not. Couple that with seeing life-like depictions of idealized existence depicted in movies and the weak minded are driven to insanity (not that they needed much help).
Another way to look at it is this:
Question: Why do people behave the way they do?
Answer: Because they can.
Religion, is your answer!
as an atheist i disagree. religion is less powerful now than in earlier times. we just know more about it.
I think we know much less about it now, because, after all, we know better. If you ask me, the world doesn’t seem to be doing better to any discernible degree without, say, the true – therefore loving – Judeao-Christian view of life. Just sayin’.
The founding Judeo-Christian system of belief embedded in this country’s political and cultural structure is certainly less influential than in earlier times which is why society is unraveling at the seams. When objective truth and morality is replaced with relative truth and morality you get the “that’s your truth” and “this is my truth” postmodernist type of dialogue and thus, guys can be girls and girls can be cats, pronouns proliferate, sexual deviation metastasizes, and anything goes. As John Adams observed, “This Republic is designed for a wholly moral and religious people. It will not work with any other.”
Indeed Brightlight, you sound almost Geislerian there! The dread moral absolute established by The Immutable God has been the bane of the first sinner Lucifer and all of his followers to date. Ironically most Libtards and Leftists lie to themselves saying “I’m not Luciferian and moreover there is no Devil”. Some are honest about their allegiance to Satan like Alinski but most are tricky about their allegiance to Satan like Hilary, Podesta, Fetterman et al. Conforming to The Truth is freedom, and salvation. Natural Man hates The Truth The Way and The Life. Sadly they will have eternity to reflect on their rebellion.
In the Bible, II Thessalonians Chapter 2, it says that in the last days, God will send a strong delusion to those that reject His Truth, so that they may believe a lie.
There is no money or ‘prestige’ in Actually LIVING “The Golden Rule”…. Religions are BIG Business. There are, admittedly, Good people who ‘believe’ in one diety or another, but those same people might do better. The bible was written by men, over long periods; differing interpretations from many of those men. Remember the adage about whispering a story in one person’s ear at a gathering, and being passed along through twenty people???
When you become desperate and are in real suffering you will change your mind. I am certain.
Jeff, with all due respect I agree that religion is not the answer. A real relationship with our Creator is available to all, whether we “believe” it or not. If you want to know more let me know.
That is one lazy ass answer! If you don’t blame immigrants, blame religion. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Talk about weak minded.
Religion, or faith?
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
Brain Dead individuals believing what they see on TV between 6 &7 and believing their web browser headlines.
Willful complacency and laziness.
I give some creeedence to my web browser headlines, too, but they don’t come from the NYT/LAT/WaPoop.
It reminds me of the old Monty Python movie where the knight is getting hacked to pieces and each time he loses an appendage he’s proclaiming “it’s just a scratch” or “nothing but a flesh wound,” finally he’s just left as a head now proclaiming his rival is a coward and is running away because he’s afraid of being bitten to pieces.
Really funny, and apparently also very real !
“I’m not dead, I feel fine.”
“I’m feeling much better, really!”
Yes – he identified as alive and that was all that mattered. 🤦🏼♀️🤣
That and the special effects team. They were far from sophisticated but they did fine work with their limited budget.
The DVD of Holy Grail actually has a feature on it called the Killer Rabbit icon in the corner of the screen. If watching on a computer, you can click it and it shows the cost of each prop item – such as the coconuts – used in the scene.
Add to that the need for investors to stay in the market so the financial community can get out and make huge profits.
People have been lulled into believing in false narratives about the true state of circumstances.
It is easier to go along with the projected “la la la” belief that all is well than risking facing hard, cold truths.
Deny, deny, deny….
La la la….
Will they also step with smiles into the ovens?
In 2005, when I bought James Howard Kunstler’s book “The Long Emergency” and looked at the names of the chapters, the first one was “Sleepwalking into the Future”. After reading it, countless countless times I have found myself remembering that phrase and even using it in conversations.
In the meantime, Biden’s Nuremberg speech claimed its first victim:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/politically-motivated-attack-say-name-18-year-old-cayler-ellingson-murdered-angry-democrat-two-weeks-joe-bidens-demonic-speech-declaring-republicans-enemies-state/
I read that story and said exactly the same think you did. biden, the thief who sits his tail in the Oval Office, has his first notch in his tyrant belt of a republicans.
Those of us who refuse to pretend the last election was not stolen have been labeled “extreme and dangerous”….
historically….that’s been a huge first step before eliminating certain segments of a population. With four million illegal border crossings in the last two years, it is not difficult to see where this is going.
that doesn’t say it was political. but this does: https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/police-driver-admitted-to-intentionally-killing-teen-at-foster-county-street-dance-during-political-dispute
This is an important milestone. I heard the story on Jack Posobeic’s podcast – thanks for the links so I can note the name…
Cayler Ellingson
I want to remember it the way I remember Ashli Babbitt.
Her murder at the hands of officialdom is probably in the larger sense more heinous.
Both both are darkly prophetic.
P.S. And I hope the family sues Xiden directly for his actual incitement to violence (unlike the false charge of such against PDJT).
You can call it “pretending” if you want to, but I call it lying–to yourself and everyone else.
God calls it being blinded, futile thinking, foolishness, and having a darkened mind. The downward spiral all begins with a deliberate rejection of God.
agree….the pretending is the outward spin….necessary to keep appearances
what truth is to a sound society, pretending is to a society in rapid decline.
God Bless America
The cold spot in the pit of my stomach tells me we might be in that place when those who refuse to see are blinded lest they see. The day does come. Have we run out of grace?
“ blaming vendor inflation”
NEVER HEARD OF THIS. lol
Welcome to Babylon
So, if we agree that those in authority are DELUSIONAL, isn’t the notion that “this is all INTENTIONAL” at least reasonably subject to serious question?
Isn’t it possible, being delusional, and out of touch with reality, they have NO IDEA whats coming, what the logical, inevitable consequences are, for themselves or the World?
Are they “the Insane Idiots In Charge”?
If economic/business leaders really let the cat out of the bag, the whole house of cards will immediately collapse.
As I understand this, WEFers and Biden accomplices are trying to control the “great destruction” in order to bring in the “great reset.”
At this point, for them, lying and denial is essential in order for them to accomplish certain things prior to the demise. What exactly these things are to accomplish is unknown to us outsiders.
Since most of us are ignorant of macro economics, they can say whatever they wish.
Bottom line: WEFers et al believe in their infallibility as gods and therefore truly believe they really have control. However, never in the existence of humanity has the Creator allowed such hubris to go unanswered by Him.
I await His educational action against them.
Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 31 helpful votes I thought of this verse listening to “Brandon’s” MAGA defamation speech.
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. …
At this point, I don’t see them lying and denying. They have come out of the closet completely and yet the kool-aid drinkers are so blind they do not understand. All they care about is “being taken care of” believing that their “god,” The State, has their best interests at heart. Boy are they in for a rude awakening!
Even so come, Lord Jesus.
it’s not coincidental. it is the very nature of a godless state to act abnormal and to break from sound judgements.
when yuu attempt to lord over people and abuse the truth, by pretending. you commit to a different kind of violence:
sloth…a sin. and a very toxic and cancerous and infectious sin.
My consent is withdrawn. I will never allow this corrupt government to rule any aspect of my life. My moral and righteous conscience disallows me to even contemplate making compromises.
not this time, not ever.
God Bless America
I, too, have chosen the hill upon which I am willing to die. They can kill my body but not my soul.
Yep.
And that is why anyone with half a brain had better be storing food and fuel.
Because we are in for load of trouble when these crackpots who are now in charge lead us on down the road to la la land.
When things fail spectacularly, and they will fail, we will be on our own for a bit before the wise and strong can bring them back on line.
“… we will be on our own for a bit before the wise and strong can bring them back on line.”
For most of my life I have been an optimist, but now, not so. Ever hear of the Dark Ages. When the Fall comes, it will be a dark time for a very long time as there are too many devils roaming the earth these days. The rich and powerful a la, WEF, Bilderbergs, Davos, China, Russia and their Oligarchs, N. Korea, Iran, Islamic terrorists who want to reestablish the Caliphate … to many to name will be vying for everything they can grab and control . Freedom and liberty will live only in the hearts of man and it will take a very long time to resurface and regain dominance. And who will be around to fight this? Maybe America because of the 2A. But, human nature being what it is, the cycle will simply repeat itself again and again, until the Lord returns to establish his dominion over His earth, His creation. The Second Coming.
So, no, I don’t expect things to be brought back online any time soon.
Satan’s minions do not know they are minions. They are deluded to believe they are RIGHT! They have no idea they are just tools.
This is a great website for a far deeper understanding of the Old and New Testaments and Christian theology in general.
https://www.youtube.com/user/bethisraelwayne/videos
His latest teaching, he did only 11 hours ago, is very consistent with this topic.
it is always informative and enlightening to learn and to understand the ancient language and spiritual meaning.
I appreciate you posting this.
when we read the bible, we are training and re-training our spiritual bodies and minds to understand truth.
God Bless America
I love reading the various passages in the original language of those inspired to write it. A typical ancient word will now have as many as +10 different meanings, in modern English, and yet a ‘modern’ translator must choose ‘one’ modern English word to translate it. Thus all scripture, you read in your own language is based upon the judgment of the translator to one degree or another.
A particular biblical passage has so much more meaning when you read it with all, +ten variations of the same singular ancient word in your mind.
It was told that the end generation would be able to understand. If we are in fact the end generation, I think the fact that we can compare our reality to the ‘right’ modern word is a part of revealing that mystery.
BTW his whole set of teachings is amazing. Plus his personal story of converting from a Jew to a Christian is inspiring as it reminds me of what the early Jews that became Christians must have gone through. Not that there is any difference as one brought forth from the other, as was God’s plan from the very beginning.
Logically God had to start his message of salvation somewhere upon this Earth using the language of the people at that time.
For example the very first verse in the Bible.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
Most non-scientists will just pass over this as poetry; but Beginning is (Time), the Heavens is (Space) and earth (Mater)
In this very first verse, written by ‘inspired’ sheep herders, is the very basics of our current physics.
As a born again Jewish believer it was not a conversion I had but restoration back into the olive tree Roman’s 11
As messianic Jews are being restored daily
Amen, though I still love the Jewish people that have not converted.
I’m crying writing this, like the father of the prodigal son.
Still Jesus, who was a Jew, along with all twelve, will unite us all.
My go-to source for learning is Skip Heitzig at Calvary Church in Albuquerque, NM.
Expository Bible teaching, word-by-word, verse-by-verse, chapter-by-chapter, book-by-book.
Great teaching.
https://calvarynm.church/teachings/
most if not all Calvary Chapel churches, teach verse by verse. I’ve listened to Skip for years, he even had the pulpit at the “home church” in Costa Mesa. Very good teacher bringing the light of the Word
The Criminally Insane never know they’re pretending.
Until $!)&! get’s real, people are going to keep doing what they do.
The temperature just isn’t high enough.
There is a simple reason so many are accepting the pretense. Its because during these times truth is stranger than fiction, the truth being that the elites are trying to pull off what we are seeing. Fake pandemic? Depopulation efforts? No, it couldn’t be! Therefore, considering that is the truth, everyone is buying into the fiction.
Excellent piece, SD.
Yet another of yours I read, in my mind, with Neil Oliver’s voice, accent, and demeanor.
They’re back! And the MSM, in mock bafflement, pretends to wonder why:
‘After a six-year hiatus, the Clinton Global Initiative returned to New York City this week, bringing together leaders from the worlds of nonprofit, government and business, with a few celebrities sprinkled in for good measure.
‘The Clintons shut down the initiative because of scrutiny during the campaign. And they kept it on ice for six years for a variety of reasons. First there was the recovery from Mrs. Clinton’s defeat in the presidential election. Then the #MeToo movement brought a harsh spotlight on past Clinton ties to Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. Later, people close to Bill and Hillary say, Covid protocols kept them away from large crowds.’ – NYT
Let’s spell it out for the New York Slimes’ cognitively challenged stenographers. Clinton Global Initiative -probably the world’s largest charity fraud and money laundering operation – shut down in 2016 because it might actually be prosecuted, with a new sheriff on the scene.
But Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr extended professional courtesy to their fellow Uniparty lawyers, the Clintons, and nothing happened.
Now Obama’s weaponized ‘Justice’ Dept is in full-throated pursuit of Donald Trump, as are various state prosecutors. Presumably with a sub rosa guarantee of immunity from ‘Attorney General’ Beria-Garland, it’s safe for the Clinton crime family to emerge from hiding and relaunch their sordid racketeering operation.
In retrospect, the Clintons’ immunity was telegraphed several weeks ago, when Hillary began offering for sale those ‘But her emails …’ hats – an in-your-face gesture saying loud and clear, ‘I’m untouchable.’
Swine Hilda must of bagged enough Ukraine loot to be able to fire it back up!
Like the ‘Big Guy’ referenced by Hunter Biden, Hillary’s commission is 10 percent.
And yes, business is booming within the D-party money laundering community.
It’s hoped that President Zelensky can attend next year’s CGI bash in person … bearing cash-filled suitcases entered into the US with a diplomatic passport (no baggage inspection).
Life is good!
Pretty much Hitler in the bunker thinking. Clown World. Enjoy till the nukes start to fly. The economy is already crashing and i am sure our friends crossing the southern border will join Antifa to burn things down. Heard today Venezuela is indeed emptying the jails and sending folks north. How could our government simply not give a damn about the American people. Hell Biden can send Hunter to fight China.
Trying to get reality though their thick skulls.
there is a genuine axiom: fake it until you make it.
the problem with his administration (joe malarkey and obama before it):
they aren’t interested in “making it”.
it’s just fake it.
and when you are finished faking it, just fake it some more.
there is no real work involved in this kind of regime. we call that a shithole country. Not the people, it’s so called leadership.
President Trump produced MAKING IT. And he did so, with a style that was truly enigmatic.
this talent, the ability to actual lead and produce good working policies that allow America to be resilient and to thrive, is why he is such a threat to the corruptors.
they have built their entire politics lives faking it, and producing nothing of worth or value.
sloth. indifference…greed…self interest…laziness…incompetence..apathy…
the corruptors built a system of institutions that spend enormous sums of money *yours* campaigning and giving lip service to issues. And most of these issues are manufactured, distortions.
some people think that suckerturd is going to create some fantastic “meta” alt reality environment.
fact is, our US Government and most President and congress have already created this virtual world.
I do not consent.
God Bless America
The Pretenders have us surrounded.
“…we are living in an era of great pretending…”
Sundance
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
Ronald Reagan
What to do?
… gaslighting projecting gaslighting projecting gaslighting projecting gaslighting projecting gaslighting …
Pretending is a key feature of Marxist thought.
Wasn’t the classic joke in the Soviet Union that there was zero unemployed because everyone pretended to work and the government pretended to pay them.
Seems everyone, except those having to pay the bill, are the pretenders. The middle class and below have to deal with the ugly reality every day.
Living in Hawai’i I tempted fate and took a few univ classes..one in anthropology..very interesting…another in public policy.
the professor teaching public policy was describing why legislatures create tolls and taxes on public ordinance. The example was parking lots in in honolulu and waikiki.
The reality is that when you create scarcity, you can demand higher prices.
I asked: why not just make more parking lots and improve public transportation?
answer: you make more money with less work forcing scarcity.
God Bless America
I’m sure if I looked hard enough I could find pretending way back when.
However, for me it jumped off the charts with obama’s fake unemployment numbers and the great Rush Limbaugh calling him out on it daily.
I used to tell former liberal friends how amazing it was the things they had to pretend not to know.
think you should turn that critical eye against pretending inwards and realize that Trump doesn’t have what it takes to defeat the Left
not sure how many grand failures do I need to list to make the point, but the fact that he appointed the swamp creature who signed off on a raid of his own home should concentrate minds on the fact that Donald Trump is himself a swamp creature, always has been
if you want to lose AGAIN, roll with Donald Trump
Dems are practically begging you to do so – they know how to beat him and proved it
Yes, by CHEATING and STEALING an election!!!
And see David is PRETENDING!!!
Sadly, our children did not grow up with cautionary tales like The Emperor Has No Clothes.
This generation is going along with this nonsense like that empire’s people did.
I’m waiting for a child to out them with a common sense comment on reality.
The Emperor Has No Clothes was replaced by How To Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell.
Brainwashing
Well, as one of the stupidest nations on Earth we pretend that all is well at the same time we are well over 30 trillion dollars in debt and heading further south rapidly.
“It’s weird to see so much time and effort being exhausted on combatting social pretense at every level…”
Not weird, it’s perfect… It suits the structure and duality of the two party system.
Progressive neo Christians arguing in the streets with the progressive liberals over petty erroneous distraction.
All while the government burns the country to the ground.
Idiots make this easy!
I’m raising my girls, as girls.
If they want to explore their options, they can
AT 18, when they move out.
The lie-call it pretending-creeped in for over 50 years imo.
You can have sex before and outside marriage and kill the natural result via abortion, you can become a different face via plastic surgery, you can be a different “gender” if you want to be, you can be taller by coughing up cash for being tall surgery, you can have multiple homes and cars and live on debt looking rich, you can dress up like you have all the money in the world is where we are.
I’m not certain but it seemed to have started in the background in the interbellum period and flourished in the US around Kennedy’s time with all that family’s lies about reality-see Chappaquiddick. And then it metastasized under billy clinton.
The public just bought in. Hey if the president does it why not me?!
It does start with morality and the philosophy that underlines it.
Relativism leads to this-me just living MY truth. Who cares if it infringes upon yours. We just have to fight it out, not in the public square of ideas but now with physical force. Might is right when each person lives their own truth.
The only way it can change is via reality and TRUTH-the eternal Person who can shine His light upon this darkened world.
Reality always wins in the end.
It does require a new reset of the soul to get back to reality. I just can’t see it happening without national suffering of some sort.
That’s a very pro Progressive Age, anti-Federalist, anti-constitutional and conservative argument you’ve got going on there.
Forget law and principles, just force my version of morality upon everyone for the common good.
9-10 Dems would definitely agree, and that’s why we are where we are today.
SO there is no truth Dev? What do we base laws upon, friend?
Read the founders-they knew truth and lived it.
They are called principles, which is very very different than the religious morals being implied.
Note: My pointing out that the statement was absolutely anti Federalist is completely correct. Aka the absolute opposite end of the founders position.
The Bullshit Syndrome. Look right into the camera and lie.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.
Pretending is everywhere. News is pretending to be worth something to those not where the news happened. We are to trust others in being truthful in reporting, however, built in bias is evermore real and pervasive.
Pretend any news one reads regularly is the unvarnished truth – an idiot is.
Discrimination produces news to pretend it’s important.
Truth of Joe Biden in violation of his own extension of a 2001 federal emergency is obvious. Pretend otherwise, but he has and is giving aid and comfort to terrorists while welcoming them into our country. Both to externals, such as Iran, and to those entering here. Pretend it away ? Not as long as truth is made to others.
Not only pretending, but the German Minister of Finance, Habeck, has actually said that businesses can close due to lack of business/profit, and not go bankrupt. They are just apparently ‘on vacation’.
That doesn’t sound so delusional, you can always pause a business. But if the business owes debts, and cannot pay, that’s when bankruptcy normally kicks in. Is he saying that businesses can default on their debts without declaring bankruptcy?
The price index graphic needs a third column. “Change since Biden.”. The year-over-year pretending has already begun.
Everybody is pretending. It’s like pro-wrestling. It’s all fake. We pretend we care about something or someone and pretend we are okay.
All the world’s a stage, and we are the players.
The moment you finally understand you are faking everything, is when you discover who you really are.
I call it “The age of Deceit”.
“…The pretending issue goes beyond politics, it’s everywhere”
And it will NEVER go back, only get worse with each passing day.
Mock them back into Reality, from their “The Land of the Fleeced in the Home of the Knaves!”
As export prices double while imports shrink by half, Europe’s postwar consumer economy –an anti-natalist, weak security, “socialized” redistribution of productive workers’ gains to economically extraneous academic- political “talkers vs. doers” (read, feministical quota-babies and their “diverse” ilk; Britain’s post-Boris Cabinet includes not one white male)– faces unprecedented demand-supply imbalance.
Think recent, blacked-out, Netherlands and other major popular reactions to lurking despots’ sabotage of everything they touch: Understanding that immiserating personal travails are intentional artifacts of a malignant globalist plutocracy, long-suffering citizens will rise to cast off chains en masse.
The detachment from reality can be traced to the recent explosion of the non-profit sector. When you exempt a corporation from the governor of profit-motive, it acts dumbly.
Most non-profits distill down to publishing companies, as is evident from their remittance records, they mainly produce Annual Reports, regular dues solicitations, a market for ‘booth’ space paraphernalia and ad-space in local media. So, their main product, when it’s all boiled down, is media. The abstract, frivolous nature of the industry product combines with the lack of the metric for merit that the profit-motive used to provide, to produce the idiocy on display.
The Chinese Dynastic Cycle was characterized by a similar explosion in ‘non-governmental’ organizations, just prior to a a dynasty’s collapse. “When Rhetoric Does Not Match Reality, Revolution Occurs,” goes the ancient Mandarin parable.
“Extend and pretend”. modern monetary theory(MMT).
After the great pretending, comes the great unwinding.
My opinion only.
And then today the old pump and dump. In the morning the market is up a couple of hundred points knowing what’s coming. Then it happens… oh no the market drops 500 like clockwork.