Collapse Is Assured

Brethren, 

I wanted to write this as a sort of companion piece to what I was talking about the other day.  I touched on it a bit then, but there are three main points that I think really merit hammering home:

1.     Collapse is assured.  We, as a society, lack the will to do what it would take at this point to arrest it, even if enough of the population were capable;
2.     There’s no way to predict the timeline or exact fallout from this, so those of us who see it coming are best off taking care of our own, building our skills, collecting what resources we can, and teaching our children to be as formidable as possible;
3.     And finally, not losing hope or heart no matter how hopeless it all looks.  Easier said than done, but that’s why I want to harp on it.  

There is no one more disgusted by the Public than those of us who must deal with It- with them- on a regular basis.  And brethren, let me tell you- stereotypes don’t come out of nowhere.  Just as there’s more merit to the stereotype of the overalls- clad, MAGA- hat- wearing redneck sitting gape- mouthed in front of Fox News than we like to admit, there is equal accuracy in the stereotypes that get social media accounts suspended and their operators doxxed and canceled.  


The lowest class of society are not only exempt from paying taxes, they’re subsidized by their betters.  When charity is outsourced to government- no matter what level of government it is- two things are inevitable.  One, the undeserving will always get some, if not most, of those resources; and two, it will always and inevitably be weaponized.  This is why I cannot support any government welfare; it is impossible to design a system that is immune to being gamed, that won’t snowball past sustainability, and that won’t be weaponized by the ruling class.  


And yet, it is as dangerous to say this publicly as it is to acknowledge that humans are by nature a hierarchal species.  Egalitarianism is inherently utopian.  Egalitarianism is just as much a lie as any other utopian delusion.  


I have utmost respect for the Founders, but Thomas Jefferson was wrong when he wrote that all men are created equal.  We have but to look at the World IQ Map to see that.  (I will, however, concede that he could not have known that those words would take on such a life of their own, and break free of the context in which they were written.)  


I don’t have a better system to propose than the one put forth by the Founders,but I think we can all agree at this point that the one they incepted is well and truly dead.  The Republic of the Founders died in 1865.  It pains me to admit that the leftists are correct about anything, but they are correct that the Stars & Stripes is the flag of the American Empire.  


Brethren, I don’t know about you, but the moment I had that epiphany, every scintilla of affection for the Stars & Stripes that propaganda had instilled in me died on the spot.  I still have love and respect for the Betsy Ross flag, and for the Battle Flag, but the American Empire is such a monstrosity that not even nostalgia can redeem its flag for me.  And if you have this same sentiment but feel guilty for it, please know that there is no good reason why you should.  Indeed, you should scrutinize the motives of anyone who says differently.  


The Stars & Stripes is the flag that flew over the Union armies as they invaded Southern States that had done their best to secede peacefully.  (Yes, we’ve been taught that it was Southern soldiers at Fort Sumter who fired on Union forces first, but anyone who knows for sure is long dead, and history taught by the victor is suspect at best.  I am not convinced that it was the South who fired first.  Even if they did, the Yankees shouldn’t have been there in the first place- their presence was in and of itself a provocation.)  


History as taught in the publicly funded school systems should be questioned at the very least.  The primary goal of the public school system is not to teach its students useful information, or even to create good citizens.  The primary goal of the current American school system, no matter which school system it is, is to train its subjects in obedience to authority.  Either students will learn to submit to authority or they’ll be started down the incarceration pipeline, but either way they will be formed and trained to navigate a society in which they are not expected or allowed to exercise a degree of autonomy which could correctly be termed freedom.  


Nor will they ever.  It will take longer than the lifetime of anyone now living to restore what was lost 161 years ago, if such a thing is even possible.  


I say collapse is assured because the critical percentage of the population that must be in agreement for true social change, or for drastic action, will never approve of the extreme measures that would be necessary to forestall catastrophe.  The catastrophe may not take the form of total collapse- and given how many nukes we have, I hope and pray it doesn’t- but we’re already in a steep decline, and I think everyone agrees at this point that the status quo cannot and will not hold.  


Look at welfare obligations.  Look at the national debt.  These financial burdens alone are more than can be fulfilled.  As one contributor to the most recent issue of Islander magazine pointed out, debts that can’t be paid won’t be.  


If I ever see a penny of Social Security money- which I won’t- it will have been drastically devalued from what it was worth when it was extorted from me.  Yet I have no doubt that I will be expected to act as the Boomers do, to be grateful to have even that much, to believe that the pittance given to me is the same money that I paid in instead of money extorted from my nieces and nephews and their peers.  


Same with Medicare.  Do you know, brethren, that the entire healthcare industry revolves around Medicare and Medicaid policy?  That government money is what really funds the healthcare industry.  That’s why it’s so dysfunctional.  Everybody wants to gripe about how broken healthcare is- and it is completely broken, don’t get me wrong- but the reason is because government pulls the puppet strings through money.  Obamacare exacerbated the problem, but the fundamental issue was already there.  


I mention Medicaid, too, because the people who qualify for Medicaid use medical services as disproportionally as they use every other social service.  The people on Medicaid are almost certainly also going to be on SNAP- Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, more commonly known as EBT or food stamps- and collecting whatever other forms of welfare for which they are eligible.  


That welfare, by the by, is why this segment of the population bother having children at all.  And what wretched creatures most of those poor children are!  


I know one medic who was called out for a sick child and arrived to find the mother on her phone, seemingly indifferent to the suffering of her visibly sick toddler.  When he asked if she had given the child any Tylenol, the mother responded in a tone that suggested he was stupid for even asking the question, “No, that’s your job.”  


This attitude is typical of the segment of the population that utilizes these programs, especially in urban environments.  Welfare queens are not a myth.  I myself, at 19 years old and making so little money as a grocery store bagger that I had 3 roommates and kept a box of emergency food in my closet, once saw a family pay for groceries including steak and lobster with EBT, and when I loaded their groceries, it was into an Escalade.  I have taken payments for wedding cakes that were paid for with EBT.  Friends of mine who worked in the Deli took payments for cold cut and sandwich platters- cold, because hot food doesn’t qualify- with EBT.  


Brethren, I was raised in a household that teetered between upper working class and lower middle class depending on what the economy was doing and whether my dad worked any hurricanes that year, but I myself have been solidly working class my entire adult life.  I’ve gone hungry to pay bills.  I’ve had to save receipts for optional purchases until the return window passed, just to be sure I could actually afford it.  When I looked into whether I qualified for any of those programs, I didn’t.  I still don’t, and despite working in the healthcare industry, I can’t afford health insurance.  Despite making the most money I’ve ever made, I still live paycheck to paycheck.  Actually less, given that I have debt.  Debt, which is essentially impossible to avoid if you want to own land, a home, or make any purchase of a comparable scale.  You need credit to do that, and while not paying utility bills on time will tank your credit, actually paying them doesn’t build it.


The entirety of the current paradigm is designed to train and incentivize the population to be fat, lazy, stupid, and most of all complacent.  It is designed to funnel and trap all but the ruling class in perpetual debt.  


Our current system is, in a word, usury.


There is a very good reason you don’t see that word used publicly, and why the people who try to are punished so severely for it.  


Between that, and the snowballing welfare obligations and social degredation since the 1960s, we’ve passed the point of no return.  There is no political solution.  There is no rescue coming.  The ruling class have ensured that rescue would necessarily be tyrannical, and once such means had been accepted, there would be no coming back from them.  


It’s over, in other words.  Has been for a while.  


I know it’s hard to accept.  But this is the world in which we live.  The world in which we were raised, the world we were taught to navigate, is well and truly dead. 


We are best served by seeing, and accepting, reality as it is.  


And so, brethren, I will tell you time and time again: prepare.  


Things are bad, and they will get worse.  The rising cost of living, the increasing pressures on farmers and individuals who own even a little bit of land- it’s bad, and it’s going to get worse.  The ruling class has no incentive to do anything but increase the pressure- slowly at first, and then faster.  


As you’ve probably noticed, they’re speeding up.  


The Boomers are dying, and as a group, they’re going to squeeze every last benefit from the rest of society that they can, right up to the last second.  The Millennials are weak, cringe, and contemptible as a generation.  The Zoomers are hardly better.  


There will be no rescue.  The decline will continue, and whatever resistance wasn’t killed in the womb will be killed before it can mature.  


There will be more Lindsay Clancys.  


And while there will be noble men who try to stand against this, any success they have will be limited.  I mentioned the Bronze Age Collapse previously- Ramses III was a pharaoh during this time, and one worthy of the name.  In better times, he probably would have been one of Egypt’s great rulers; as it is, he presided over a decline.  The best he could do for his people was to blunt the worst of it for them, and keep them from fading from the historical records like many of their less fortunate contemporaries.  


We start from a much better position than those ancients.  While we are in decline, our prosperity was so much greater than theirs that even our poorest can, with proper management of resources, slowly accrue useful things to pass on to our heirs.  


So brethren, I urge you again and continually: build practical skills.  As much as you can, learn about plumbing and sanitation.  Learn about electricity.  Learn about carpentry.  Learn to sew.  Learn to cook.  Learn to grow.  Learn to hunt.  Learn to fish.  Learn CPR and first aid.  


Participate in your community where you can.  Going to church, volunteering with fire departments, participating in HAM and citizen radio groups- all of these things help build relevant relationships and skills, and give you a way to start building a network of useful connections.  It also helps open up opportunities for barter with trustworthy people.  


Do these things, and teach your children to do them too.  The ruling class is going to train and incentivize your children to be as fat, lazy, stupid, and complacent as the rest of the Public if you let them.  


For the sake of your children’s future, and everything you hold dear, don’t let them!  


The current default is contemptible.  If you want strong, resilient children, you’re going to have to make them.  And you’re going to have to instill in them an antipathy toward the current paradigm, in which victimhood is currency and weakness is incentivized in every way.  Fortitude is the single most valuable thing you can instill in your children.  


Even without a lot of money, you can start building a cache of resources for them.  Look for deals on things like solar ovens, physical media, and manual tools.  Look for physical copies of reference books for useful skills.  


Most of these will be older works.  It’s refreshing to even skim them- I got a copy of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration a while back, and started laughing within the first couple of sentences at how completely politically incorrect it was.  The ruling classes are very good at propaganda, and shape publicly acceptable language through every means.  It’s good to expose yourself to works written prior to the current norm.  


Not least of all because things have been bad before.  Maybe not in this particular way, but freedom is constantly eroded; it is not the historical norm for common people to enjoy peace and prosperity.  This is a good thing to keep in mind when you start getting demoralized- because it’s natural and inevitable to get demoralized, and disheartened, and want to stop struggling quite so much.  


The main reason people embrace tyranny is because it’s easier.  Being a person worthy of autonomy is hard work.  (This is, incidentally, why democracy can’t work.  Normies are consensus machines and easily manipulated by default.  Even when you know this, and even when you recognize when it’s happening, it’s hard to fight the impulse.  Or instinct, I guess I should say.)  


But it’s worth it.  This is what humans are meant to do: take care of our families and our people, build things, create beauty, and strive to leave a better legacy for our children.  


Too many people take the easy way out, and refuse to put in the hard work to better themselves.  But when you do, there’s a unique satisfaction in it.  Just like there’s a timeless coziness in cradling a warm cup in your hands and appreciating the home you’ve created for yourself, there’s a sort of bone- deep rightness when you look at work produced by your own hands and find it good.


​This is what we were meant to do.  So brethren, work on relevant skills, share your blessings with the deserving, and sleep with the peace of one who is acting in accordance with God and nature.