If The Future’s So Bright How Come I Don’t Need Shades?
self-sufficiency.
Anyway, those are some thoughts on what we can do at home. In the bigger picture, we need to focus our thoughts, our voices, and our vote on doing what we can to keep nations at peace. Governments have an unfortunate tendency to make war in order to extract themselves from depressions, and we certainly don’t want a future that requires shades. Think peace.
So, when is all this financial gloom and doom due to occur? Who knows. I have reason to believe we may be living in a very different America by year’s end. Such a statement though moves us away from ‘facts’ and back toward crystal ball gazing. You know, the biggest mistake I have seen predictors of the future make is timing. A lot of people called this financial fiasco we have fallen into clear back around the turn of the century. It’s just that they were a few years off on their timing. Now the crisis is here, and it will continue to manifest. But the folks in charge, the string pullers, the ones with a vested interest in keeping things how they are… have done an amazing job of delaying the inevitable. So the remaining bubbles might be contained a while longer. However, all bubbles inevitably burst. That is a fact of history. Why not get prepared now?
At the end of the day, I personally see the entire process that is unfolding around us as mostly good news. Truth be told, we are living in a sick society. We know it. Our inspired, finely crafted system of government no longer represents us. We handed over the hen house keys to the foxes pigs, and they have spent their time looting America’s wealth for decades … sticking their heads up from the trough only long enough to assure us everything was ok. Why didn’t we notice the BBQ sauce on their faces?
So, here we are. We turn on the TV and are assaulted with empty, mindless programming, dumbed down stories of the important happenings in the world, and a plethora of prescription drug commercials half filled with disclaimers about their disastrous side affects. Come on. We need to flush this stuff. We want America to be true to her purpose again. We want the rampant corruption and insatiable greed to stop. To paraphrase Gerald Celente of Trends Research.com, the focus needs to shift away from the greed and corruption on Wall Street in favor of a return to Main Street… Agi-business must give way to a return to the family farm… Wall Mart must be reclaimed by Mom & Pop style storekeeping.
In short, we need a renaissance. The only thing is, we feel powerless to effect the needed change. Well, natural processes are about to give us a hand with that. Global economic circumstances are likely to have us focusing more and more on our own locale as a source of foodstuffs, energy, governance, and security. Big brother is about to be downsized. Greed and animus are on their way out… compassion and tolerance will be coming in. Depressions, 2012, gloom and doom…are not signaling the end of the party. The human experience is just getting warmed up. Yes, at the end of the day there is indeed a brighter future ahead. We are giving birth to it now.
So now you are informed. You now know that the inevitable next round of stimulus packages won’t work. You know that if the stock market goes up further, it won’t hold. You know that if the prices of precious metals fall, it is a buying opportunity. You know that if California is miraculously pulled back from the abyss, it will likely fall back in. You no longer believe the ‘happy talk’ coming from the government talking heads. Do something with this knowledge. Get prepared. Be the leader in your family and community.
2010 Update. January 17th 2010:
In short, nothing has changed. In fact, there may be more of a need for unorthodox points of view such as the ones articulated in this article, because it appears that the economy is recovering even more so than last July when the article was first penned. The stock market is up. Certain economic indicators have turned up. Many “experts” have declared the recession over.
But what’s also true is that many economic indicators are not recovering. This article tries not to be a statistics piece, so the positive vs. the negative indicators will not be argued here. The more important argument is far simpler: The bubbles are still inflating. It’s as simple as that.
All the points made in the article are still in play. The public debt bubble continues to grow, and at some point it will burst. When will this happen? I don’t know. It could have happened in 2009. It could happen tomorrow. Or, the bubbles might expand for a while longer.
The year 2009 witnessed the largest government intervention across the globe in world history. In the U.S., borrowed money was fed into specific areas of the economy. One place this money did not go (for the most part) was in to fixing