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Helen Norton Artist's avatar

Well, this changed my day, but confirmed the suspicions that the current 'collapse' is on such a grand scale, that most people cannot see it as they squirm around in their own small private hell or heaven of illusion.

Those with larger big picture sight, can see the black goo that is spreading over everything and you have given us the 'template' in history of patterns forgotten, due to the 'victors' having rewritten history to hide their crimes.

We have seen very clearly the 'end of science' in these last 3 years on a scale we could never have imagined. It has been dead for decades, but the veils have been torn off the mysterious dancing girl, to reveal a fat ugly big pharma monster, there all the time, creating the sickness it pretends to heal.

It has been very hard to fathom. The end of sound medical practice is attaached to that demise.

We are watching the destruction of 'industrial and agricultural sense' as the technorats, try to turn the knowledge of 'making concrete' and raising cows, into an algorithm in a computer, therefore forgetting how to make it.

We have seen the art world (my industry) turn into some sort of strange vanilla carton world which contains nothing but a form of 'animae pink slime' therefore degrading the potential potency of what art can do which includes cause revolution through the imagination pointing out what normal sight can't see. Its all happening. Thank you again for your excellent work.

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Jim Davidson's avatar

An excellent essay, thank you for it. There were a few places where commas caused confusion and two or three sentences the sense of which was clear but the wording hadn't been reviewed closely.

Austrian economics enthusiasts like Lew Rockwell would quote Murray Rothbard saying that gold is the best form of money. Others would quote FA Hayek's Denationalisation of Money and call for market chosen money. The thousands of competing crypto currencies offer many choices to trade and commerce.

Quite a few people since Andrew Dickson White wrote about fiat monetary inflation in France under John Law and later under the Directorate are against government issued money. You say that the government represents the people but evidence is all around that the government only represents the powerful and wealthy.

Asimov wrote Foundation and it's sequels about a corrupt decadent empire, the slow collapse of which would lead to a very deep, long, terrible dark age from which humanity might never recover. His protagonist said that only the rapid fall of the empire could leave enough people with knowledge to rapidly build a new and lasting order.

It's hard not to suppose that Asimov was thinking of the American-British-deep state empire of his day when he wrote his galactic empire novels. We will find out how bad things get very soon.

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