More and more I see the sentiment of 'wanting' open conflict. People getting that pre-WWI jitters, frustrations boiling over. Otherwise peacable commentators speaking closer to 'when' rather than 'if'. Playing for keeps is the assumption, respect is satirical, and contempt is growing.
It's almost as if bottling up all collective armed conflict in largely irrelevant dustbowls has given the whole globe septic shock, and now a fever is attempting to purge the poisons.
While there's lots to criticize about the Pax Americana, it did keep the armed conflict to largely irrelevant dustbowls. That meant there was lots of time to build up pressure as the standard of living declined and the prosperity shrunk. Now that America can no longer play the world's policeman, a lot of old grudges are sparking up again.
I think that those running things refuse to see things as they are either because they are in a bubble or are too foolishly arrogant, but who knows? Regardless of one’s beliefs, it does appear that a majority of people can see the incompetence of the West’s current ruling class if for only because our faces are constantly jammed it into from the international community to the local water department.
Since both our elites were significantly more capable and that people really do not like the chaos that comes from massive incompetence, the idea that there is this hypercompetent cabal destroying the world is popular; fighting this cabal (the man or the power) would certainly feel better or at least apparently be more glorious than doing the harder, more boring work to have our society not crumble away from whatever the causes. But helping to maintain the water supply, food, and mail delivery is not glamorous, but it is more crucial than whatever cops’ latest brutality is.
Personally, I believe that it is both crumbling from the incompetence created by greed and corruption as well as the powerful doing whatever they can do despite their increasing incompetence to gain and maintain control without regard to the damage being done in the long term.
They think they want it. They won’t like it if they get it. I’ve never been in an open conflict myself, but I’ve read a lot of books about it. I believe what I read about violent conflict. I’d prefer it never happen, but if it does, I prefer it not happen anywhere near me.
'Your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to keep your shit together while everything seems to be going haywire.'
More and more I see the sentiment of 'wanting' open conflict. People getting that pre-WWI jitters, frustrations boiling over. Otherwise peacable commentators speaking closer to 'when' rather than 'if'. Playing for keeps is the assumption, respect is satirical, and contempt is growing.
It's almost as if bottling up all collective armed conflict in largely irrelevant dustbowls has given the whole globe septic shock, and now a fever is attempting to purge the poisons.
While there's lots to criticize about the Pax Americana, it did keep the armed conflict to largely irrelevant dustbowls. That meant there was lots of time to build up pressure as the standard of living declined and the prosperity shrunk. Now that America can no longer play the world's policeman, a lot of old grudges are sparking up again.
I think that those running things refuse to see things as they are either because they are in a bubble or are too foolishly arrogant, but who knows? Regardless of one’s beliefs, it does appear that a majority of people can see the incompetence of the West’s current ruling class if for only because our faces are constantly jammed it into from the international community to the local water department.
Since both our elites were significantly more capable and that people really do not like the chaos that comes from massive incompetence, the idea that there is this hypercompetent cabal destroying the world is popular; fighting this cabal (the man or the power) would certainly feel better or at least apparently be more glorious than doing the harder, more boring work to have our society not crumble away from whatever the causes. But helping to maintain the water supply, food, and mail delivery is not glamorous, but it is more crucial than whatever cops’ latest brutality is.
Personally, I believe that it is both crumbling from the incompetence created by greed and corruption as well as the powerful doing whatever they can do despite their increasing incompetence to gain and maintain control without regard to the damage being done in the long term.
They think they want it. They won’t like it if they get it. I’ve never been in an open conflict myself, but I’ve read a lot of books about it. I believe what I read about violent conflict. I’d prefer it never happen, but if it does, I prefer it not happen anywhere near me.
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