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Supply crisis, sky rocketing prices, energy crisis, even famine in some places. That, and world leaders resigning, while massive protests (more or less violent) shake many nations. This is the situation right now, the long hot summer of 2022.
There is of course one way all this could be stopped.
Yes, another lockdown...
I wouldn´t be surprised if the governments in power will impose new lockdowns this fall and winter as a response to the mounting protests and tensions. In the United States, a lockdown before the midterm elections could be...interesting. Of course, it will be blamed on COVID. And even if this is "true" in some sense (COVID is real and dangerous), I think it´s obvious that lockdowns have other, shall we say, positive effects for the establishment. Accusing protesters of "aiding Russia" will also be used, from the very same people who did business with Russia for decades (even after the sanctions imposed in 2014) and are still doing business with China...
The really interesting question is: Will people accept it this time? That seems unlikely. I wouldn´t be surprised if complete chaos will engulf several Western nations in the months and years immidiately ahead. What will happen in poorer countries, such as Sri Lanka, staggers the imagination. Demands for strongman rule will become louder and louder, not just from the right but also from "liberals". Unfortunately for the latter, Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis are more convincing Bonapartists than Joe Biden or Kamala Harris...
I think we are very, very close to the turning point. Or perhaps breaking point.
I asked a chinese friend of mine if its true that "May you live in intresting Times" is an old chinese curse or at least a way of wishing someone ill.
ReplyDeleteShe said Probably not since she had never heard about it before. Either way, we definitley live in intresting Times. And at least 80%
Of all the ills that are upon us could easily have been avoided by even moderatley competent political leaders. If they wanted to.
Climate change and (in the future) resource depletion are unfortunately very difficult to solve, although perhaps not entirely impossible, but I agree that many other things (everything from rising crime to bad schools to the currently high energy prices) could have been solved. Also the lockdown bullshit. Maybe there comes a point in the life of a civilization when the elites (and even the people) become more stupid somehow? Regardless of the "objective" situation. I think Spengler and Pareto wrote about this.
ReplyDeleteWell, im not really aboard on the climate change train. But almost evrybody whos into that stuff are also in favour of various policies that hugley increase our "climate footprint", such as free immigration from The third world to The West. I suppose this can be blamed on increasing stupidity.
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