Hard Times Are Coming
The rise and fall of civilizations
is always clearer to track in hindsight
like the stages and progression of battles in a war,
but in the trenches, in the decades of decline,
it’s hard to see any trajectory other than the fall
as society gets richer and softer, more liberal and permissive
until it’s so far Left, so far up on its precarious pinnacle of achievements
there is nowhere else for it to go
but down.
This was the 1,000 year dream of the 3rd Reich
which never was,
and the Brave New World which even though is
can never last.
Eventually the People,
with its collective governments and institutions
of misinformation and indoctrination
have to revert to the mean
have to swing Right
back towards greater freedom,
liberty and personal responsibility.
Eventually everything designed to get
too big to fail has to fail.
Eventually the good-times
with their good-time mentality and morality
have to end.
I just can’t see it happening
within such a system.
For once an authoritarian system is in place
it doesn’t just step aside voluntarily
since involuntary is as good a way to define the Left
as voluntary is the Right.
The only way I can see a voluntary society returning
is a collapse of the New World Order as we know it,
and this isn’t just a national or regional issue
as it has always been in the past,
it’s now global.
And it isn’t just a slight “correction”
able to be managed as a “road bump”
on the endless march of progress,
it’s a total collapse.
Collapse, like war, is easy to think and talk about.
It’s a lot harder to actually live through,
yet some silver lining awaits on the other side
when civilization rises again.
It’s gonna take hard times,
and hard times are coming,
and yet…..
Good times or bad times
It’s all just times, and all
Time is illusion
(10/26/23)
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