Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
“But
we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was
another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling:
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among
the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell
warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But
in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of
their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to
love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their
capacities to think.” – Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death
“What
Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was
that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one
who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of
information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would
be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would
be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea
of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley
feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some
equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal
bumblepuppy.” – Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death
I
find myself ruminating about whether there is anything myself or any
other average Joe can do to make a difference in this world, controlled
by psychopaths, satanists, egomaniacal billionaires, corrupt evil
politicians, a cabal of greedy financiers, neocon warmongering
globalists, and the propaganda entertainment complex. When a complex
entity becomes too large, it becomes inefficient, bureaucratic, corrupt,
and uncontrollable.
The corruption, waste, and purposeful
use of governmental power to enrich politicians and their billionaire
benefactors, to the detriment of the country and the average citizen,
has grown to an incomprehensible and uncontainable level. Whether DOGE was a legitimate undertaking by Musk and
his tech geniuses to cut wasteful spending and uncover fraud, or
nothing more than a PR stunt designed to keep the MAGA army satiated
with the appearance of making America great again, it appears to have
sunk into the swamps of DC, foiled by the uni-party once again.
But
the show must go on, and this past week’s episode of “As the Empire
Crumbles” was certainly entertaining, with the most powerful politician
in the world hurling insults at the richest man in the world, who
responded by accusing the president of pedophilia, while calling for his
impeachment and the creation of a new political party. The MAGA
acolytes were flabbergasted, as their two heroes, who were going to
usher in a new golden era, came to blows and have irreconcilably broken
up. Who could have predicted that the two biggest egos on the planet would ultimately clash and dissolve their partnership? Many of the twitterati were convinced it was just more 4D chess, just as they believed the Q bullshit during Trump’s first term.
The
world was captivated and enthralled by this trivial social media war,
while NATO/Ukraine desperately attempted to initiate WW3 with their
attacks on Russian airbases, the Crimean bridge, and Russian passenger
trains. Thousands of tweets and hundreds of articles have been written
about this Trump/Musk bickerfest, while the world is imploding and we
are accelerating headlong towards a global war, initiated by the three
stooges running France, U.K. and Germany, and cheered on by the likes of
Lindsey Graham and Mike Pompeo.
Trump’s campaign trail
promise to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours has proven to be nothing more
than his predictable bloviating bullshit. It has become clear
he has absolutely no sway over the EU warmongers, or his own Deep State
CIA operatives carrying out the attacks on Russia, as his weak and
ineffectual efforts to end the conflict start to diminish his presidency
from the outset.
The
Gaza genocide continues, with American financial and military support,
even though Trump promised to end that conflict. Iran continues to
resist efforts to stop its nuclear enrichment program. China
pretends to be negotiating with Trump on tariffs but is content letting
the Soros installed leftist judges across the country place roadblock
after roadblock in the way of Trump’s tariff, deportation, and
governmental downsizing agenda. Foreign leaders know they can
wait out all of Trump’s threats by just slow walking negotiations and
hoping the Republicans lose the House in 2026.
China is biding its
time until they believe America is sufficiently preoccupied with its
own domestic turmoil and its Ukraine quagmire, and they will initiate
their inevitable Taiwan takeover. The United States has not won a war in
80 years and is in no position to wage war in Europe and Asia
simultaneously. Trump professes to be for peace, but the Deep State
actors controlling the government and the globalist billionaires pulling
the strings will force him into WW3. That is how Fourth Turnings roll.
With the intense opposition to the Big Beautiful Bill from Musk and key Republicans in the Senate, the next few months could get messy on the fiscal front. Musk
is entirely correct, calling the BBB a massive, outrageous, pork-filled
disgusting abomination of congressional pork. When the mind numbingly
stupid media outlets declare it will add $3 trillion to the national
debt over ten years, that means $3 trillion more than the $21 trillion
of additional debt already projected. And this assumes no recessions, no
financial crisis, no wars, and no fake pandemics. They purposefully
give the impression our national debt only goes up by $3 trillion over
ten years.
I’m absolutely certain the average prole,
distracted by their technological bread and circuses, has no clue our
debt is on automatic pilot to increase by nearly 70% over the next ten
years. The average person remains trapped in a false comfort
zone, designed by their overlords, to keep them satiated with toxic
foodstuff, propaganda disguised as entertainment, and believing going
deeper and deeper into debt, buying trinkets and baubles makes them
wealthy. Until that comfort zone is shattered by the bitter reality of
the next financial implosion, the masses will do nothing to try and
alter the disastrous course plotted by their overlords.
The
GOP passage of $9.4 billion of DOGE cuts is nothing more than a PR
stunt to convince the ignorant masses they are actually doing something
about the deficit. The dopes making bets on Draft Kings and
posting videos on Instagram have no concept about how ridiculously out
of control our government has become. They add $6 billion to the
national debt every single day, so their $9.4 of “cuts” will be gone in
37 hours. Our deficits are big, but they are not beautiful. Our deficit
in FY24 was $1.8 trillion. Through the first 7 months of FY25 the
deficit is $1.049 trillion. At the current rate of spending, the deficit
will be $2.2 trillion by the end of the fiscal year.
Interest on
the national debt is now the second biggest expenditure and has gone
from $500 billion during Trump’s first term to $1.3 trillion today.
These deficits are clearly unsustainable, and anything which is
unsustainable will not be sustained. But the corrupt, captured
politicians and insatiably avaricious Wall Street bankers will keep
dancing until the music stops. Then they will use their next engineered
financial crisis to take more of our money and further restrict our
liberties and freedom. CBDCs and social credit scores anyone?
The
real reason Trump and the GOP need to pass the big beautiful, bloated
pig of a bill is because our Ponzi scheme economy depends upon the
never-ending issuance of trillions in debt every year to give the
fabricated appearance of stability. This is why the GOP
applauds Musk’s low hanging fruit DOGE cost savings and ignores them in
their outrageously corpulent budget bill. The truth is any actual
reduction in government spending (36% of GDP) would ripple through an
economy entirely dependent upon government largess and immediately
create a massive recession and probable depression.
Ponzi schemes
have to keep growing until they run out of suckers believing the
bullshit underlying the Ponzi. This is where those controlling the
levers of society (Bernays’ invisible government)
utilize their limitless well of propaganda techniques, technological
distractions, and mindless entertainment venues to keep the ignorant
masses amused, delusional, and living in denial of the reality staring
them in the face.
Since the 2008 financial crisis we
have been muddling through economically at a 10,000 feet macro level,
with periodic crisis episodes (housing collapse, fake pandemic) utilized
by the powers that be to issue trillions more debt as the antidote to
the initial crisis created by too much debt. At a micro level,
the average American has seen a significant decline in their standard of
living, as official government reported inflation has eroded 40% of
their purchasing power, when in reality they have lost more than 60% of
their purchasing power. The reality for the average American prole is
debt slavery, either self-imposed to keep up with the Joneses or forced
upon them to survive this globalist-imposed death by a thousand cuts
economy.
Credit card debt of $1.3 trillion is at an all-time high,
up $350 billion (35%) since 2020. The average balance on those credit
cards is over $7,000 and the average interest rate on those unpaid
balances is over 21%. Student loan debt of $1.8 trillion is at an
all-time high, up $100 billion since 2020, with over 25% of these loans
in default. Auto loan debt of $1.7 trillion is at an all-time high, up
$350 billion (27%) since 2020. The average length of these loans is now
70 months. The borrower is underwater by the fifth year of these loans.
Shockingly, credit card and auto loan delinquencies have been soaring in
the last year, with credit card delinquencies above 3% for the first
time since 2012, and auto loan delinquencies surpassed 8% for the first
time since 2010. Does that sound like a consumer on solid ground?
In addition, the housing market is a disaster looking for a trigger. The Wall Street hedge funds (Blackrock)
bought up millions of homes, driving prices 140% (Case Siller Index)
higher than the 2012 low, while outstanding mortgage debt has risen from
the 2012 low of $13 trillion to $21 trillion today. Prices are
ridiculously high and mortgage rates of 7% make it virtually impossible
for an average working stiff to buy even a small home. The market is
frozen.
This is why Trump and his GOP minions must avoid a
recession at all costs by continuing to rack up $2 trillion annual
deficits. A recession would result in millions of layoffs, which would
mean unpaid mortgages, which would mean foreclosures and slashing of
home prices, which would trigger housing collapse 2.0, which would turn
the recession into a depression, causing a stock market collapse. Now
you know why they are desperate to pass this big, beautiful behemoth of
bilge.
The Fed is in a precarious position of their own making, with all choices pointing towards disastrous outcomes. They
are already sitting on over $1 trillion of unrealized bond losses,
while their Wall Street owners sit on another $400 billion of unrealized
bond losses. If these entities ever have to realize those losses, our
entire banking system would collapse. The Fed has cut rates by 1%, but
market rates went up, as their power to mislead market players
diminishes.
They have reduced their balance sheet from $9 trillion
to $6.7 trillion. The last time they tried to reduce their balance
sheet in 2019, the repo market spasmed and they used the Covid cover to
drastically print more fiat. Trump is mocking Powell and demanding
interest rate cuts. Powell is pretending to be independent, but he is
praying for some kind of crisis to again set the printing presses to
hyper-speed. I’m sure the ruling oligarchs are hatching a new crisis to
expand their wealth, power, and control, while further impoverishing and
enslaving the plebs.
It
is clear at least to me, we stand on the precipice of an economic
conflagration capable of putting the final nail in the coffin of this
empire of debt. At the same time there are unrelenting evil
forces who are frantically creating the casus-belli to initiate World
War III and the massive death and destruction that would produce. The
simultaneous commencement of these two events would produce the type of
climax expected in the waning years of a Fourth Turning, with a final resolution expected by 2032.
Most
people are blissfully unaware of the imminent demise of their
comfortable existence, so addicted to their techno-gadgets and mindless
social media performance art, they are incapable of critical thought
regarding the dystopian world they inhabit.
“People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” ― Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death
“If
politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue
excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is
another matter altogether.” ― Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death
If
you ever needed proof politics is nothing but show business, it is this
big, beautiful bill episode of drama, fiction, comedy, and tragedy.
Excellence, clarity, and honesty have no part in this absurd
psychodrama of lies, accusations, and continued downward spiral of this
empire of debt. We know Huxley believed
the masses could be sufficiently distracted by their own ego driven
pursuits, but I don’t think even he realized how much power the
technological “advances” of our times (TV based mass media, the
internet, corporate/government controlled social media, Big Pharma)
would be used by the ruling elite to control, manipulate, sedate, and
scare the ignorant masses into voluntary subservience. Everything we are
witnessing and living through is nothing more than a theater
production, designed by Bernays’ invisible governing authorities to herd
us towards their technological gulag, with the slaughterhouse as the
other alternative.
Huxley’s 1932 dystopian vision, which he believed was more likely than Orwell’s 1949 dystopian vision of
the future, and reinforced in a letter to Orwell in 1949 shortly before
his death, has been the pre-dominant method used by our overlords to
rule over, manipulate, and exploit the foibles of the unthinking masses.
They have kept their citizens distracted with pleasures,
drugged into passivity, taught to feel rather than think in government
run indoctrination centers (public schools) and overloaded with so much
useless trivial information, they are incapable of distinguishing
between good and evil – actually believing their servitude is freedom.
While
Huxley’s dystopia continues, the ruling class fears their passive mind
control methods aren’t as effective in achieving their great reset
agenda, and in need of some Orwellian censorship, disinformation, brute
force, government intimidation, harsh mind control, and guaranteeing
compliance through fear. Aren’t we lucky to be experiencing the best of
both dystopian visions. Those controlling the levers of society have
used the school system to create a soulless amalgamation of hedonistic
mass consumers; purposeless, apathetic, with muddled brains unable to
understand their unintended enslavement to the evil demons running our
world and controlling their lives.
Knowing most of what we see on
our screens and hear from supposed “experts”, left wing corporate media
talking heads, and Fox News bimbos, is gibberish and propaganda, it is
hard to distinguish real threats from clickbait, purposeful
disinformation, and scare tactics designed to make you do what they want
you to do. The precarious financial situation of the country is real.
The danger from an AI cage built through a tech-state merger with Palantir to surveil and digitally profile everyone is real.
The threat of the Ukraine-Russia conflict morphing into WW3 is real. The desire by billionaire globalists to introduce a Great Reset, Great Taking, and CBDCs is
real. The planned, funded, and executed invasion of our southern border
during the Basement Dummy administration by third world dregs, with the
sole intention of destroying the social fabric and finances of the
country, run by the Soros/Clinton/Obama triumvirate is real.
Even
with the dismantling of their USAID insurrection funding source, this
week’s festivities in Los Angeles kicked off the summer of civil war.
There is nothing real or spontaneous about these riots. Whenever pallets
of bricks suddenly show up on streets in city centers, you know Soros and
his ilk are behind the organized destruction of that particular city.
The brick and bomb throwers are being paid to riot and take photo ops.
This will assuredly be rolled out in our other Democrat controlled urban
shitholes across the land. The governor of California and the communist
mayor of Los Angeles are paid acolytes of Soros,
stoking insurrection and should be arrested and thrown into the
dungeons of DC, like the grandmothers and patriots who sauntered through
the Capitol on January 6.
We
find ourselves on the precipice of a financial, social, and military
calamity, all driven by the three driving forces of this Fourth Turning: debt,
civic decay, global disorder. Anyone not noticing events are
intensifying, conflict is expanding, anger is building, and the world is
accelerating towards that precipice at breakneck speed, is simply
ignorant or their minds are so numbed by their i-gadgets and government
school indoctrination, that it’s beyond their comprehension to
acknowledge reality.
At this point in history, I do not believe
there are enough awakened critical thinking citizens to make a
difference during the waning years of this Fourth Turning.
We can’t vote our way out. We likely can’t shoot our way out. We can’t
buy our way out. When the majority are proud of their ignorance and
believe it is superior to actual knowledge, your society is pretty much
fucked.
“What is happening here is that television
is altering the meaning of ‘being informed’ by creating a species of
information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using
this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in
the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means
misleading information–misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial
information – information that creates the illusion of knowing something
but which in fact leads one away from knowing. I am saying something
far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic
information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be
well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if
we take ignorance to be knowledge?” ― Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death
The
existing financial, social and political paradigms will have to
collapse and be swept away for any real change to occur. The problem is
it appears that is exactly what the billionaire globalist elite are
trying to trigger. In the aftermath, amidst chaos, financial ruin, civil
and global war, social strife, and a political vacuum, they envision
establishing an authoritarian global world order, with CBDCs, social
credit scores, 15-minute cities, and Big Brother level surveillance. If this vision prevails, Orwell wins the award over Huxley for the most accurate dystopian nightmare.
“It
does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless
minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” ― Samuel Adams
“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.” – George Washington
Our only hope resides in the hubris and arrogance of the ruling class.
Once the collapse is underway, its course is unpredictable and
unstable. The best laid plans have a way of going awry. This could offer
an opportunity for normal rational people to make their stand. If a
liberty movement, backed by the 300 million firearms residing in the red
states, could re-ignite the brush fires of freedom in the minds of men,
maybe we could reset the course of our country. The odds probably
aren’t worse than they were in 1776.
At this point, all we can do is prepare mentally, physically, and
spiritually for the coming storm. Buy supplies, guns and ammo. And
remember what your forefathers accomplished with far less. The choice is slavery or freedom.
