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I came to it later than you, but I agree. I see no way out. Currently, I think a military coup is the only thing that can prevent a complete collapse of the nation. I hope I’m wrong.
Then you have to ask yourself, does that happening, and a couple million Americans being killed by the American Military to get the other couple hundred of million in line, is that a nation that worth continuing? Basically being held at gunpoint to keep laboring for the owners as the point and pretend everything is fine?
Things may somehow end up even worse upon collapse initially, but given our people's apparent hatred for one another across identity lines and clear geographical lines, I have to believe maybe collapse, divorce, and reformation into several nations would be for the best long term.
They say the history bends towards justice, but maybe that requires something that the modern nation states, made in the pursuit of perpetual stability, left out an essential component that may also be absolutely vital in nature: the renewal that comes from collapse.
It sucks, it will hurt if it happens, but I try to take a larger view than that, generational suffering.
Maybe this stranglehold by the owners is inevitable when things become too intransigent. Maybe the information age accelerates the decay of an empire. I don't know.
But I'm hesitant about maintaining this union at perpetual gunpoint again. It's a fucked situation, maybe indicitive of a reality we just aren't open to hearing, that the science and progress people need to be separated from the god and racial resentment people.
That said, ecological collapse is decades away however we rearrange this deck chairs because people still want their fucking POP figures, smoke em if you got em, TB.
I'm not the way I am to be sad, BTW, it's just how I get to peace instead of horror, disdain, depression, and anger. I zoom out enough until the soap opera of my fellow self-sabotaging monkeys floating around the nearby star becomes academic. It's a viable coping mechanism that isn't born out of willful ignorance (which I despise above all) but intential detachment, for what it's worth.