Muck’s Minute #54 The Future Part IX

If industrialized super-countries (U.S.A. tops the list right now) slowly bleeds off excess wealth too much too soon, through a fiscal and economic collapse, there will be no one on the face of the Earth that will retain the ability to put us on the road to the stars.

This is my greatest fear.

I fear that normal human nature, greed, short life span (with matching short attention span) and ignorance will simply keep things on the same old road until there is not sufficient wealth available over and above the cost of just food, water and the necessities of staying alive to allow us to even try.

Then we are truly stuck in an extinction mode of being trapped with no hope of escape as a species.

We absolutely must – without fail – make our top priority the rapid escape from the Earth and quickly escape the solar system as well. We must, as a species, spread our seed to the stars if we are to escape the fate of the dinosaur. We must convince others to take the long view and the long goal and work toward this goal at an accelerated pace or events of our own nature will catch up with us and prevent us from doing it at all.

There is no way that even a small  fraction of Earth’ masses can be vaulted to the stars. Those here now and those in the intermediate future will die here. But, as a race, we can indeed send representatives and our seed itself to populate other worlds and other stars so that when our time on Earth is finished, humans will live on in other places and times.

The time to begin action is now or we will forever loose the chance. If the masses of this world are too stupid and too shortsighted to slow the deterioration of our Earth, then those of vision and ability and wealth must take action to escape it and do so as quickly as we can possibly do it. (Think Space X)

There is no alternative. There is no other way to insure that we, as humanity (or a derivative of it), can survive. If we are trapped on this fragile Earth, we will die as surely as the least of the species gone extinct before us. The only question is when; sooner amidst the inexorable grinding and detritus of our own nature, stupidity and excesses or later at the whim of the Universe itself.

Now – at last – we come to the short term which, if you listen to the alt-new on the Internet,  is going to be very short indeed.  The Global debt situation is totally out of control, the money-printers (the Fed, the US Treasury and most of the other countries who do this  – worldwide), ever since Alan Greenspan have all lost their minds borrowing and printing and printing and borrowing and borrowing and there are bubbles EVERYWHERE..

Those bubbles are about to POP. When they start vanishing, then we’ll know why the police forces in this country of ours has been militarized with Humvees, machine guns, AR-15’s and most every type of military arms there are to be had.

We will be walking – blindly for the most part – into an even Greater Depression (Oh, how I wish we had Paul Volker as Fed Head back in the 90’s or early 00 years.  He’d fix it the hard way (just like he did in the early to mid-70’s).

But it’s too late now to gracefully fix anything.  There is too much debt that cannot be paid but will be defaulted on via hyper-inflation and then collapse.  The Federal Government can be counted on to fight the losing battle with every nasty trick they can including closing banks, freezing bank accounts and “bailing-in” those very banks with depositor money.  Same with brokerage accounts and look for another ban on holding gold (and maybe silver, this time as well)..

In any event, between now and – say 2020 to 2025 – this bankruptcy will occur along with very likely an accompanying major war.  This war will be started to take the civilian minds off their own problems.  If you think this has never happened before, you don’t know your history.

The severity of the economic collapse of this country is already baked in the cake.  The war isn’t but don’t be surprised if one happens. Yes, we are essentially toast in the short run.  Whether it ends there or we have another extinction event by way of war, we don’t know.

We will have a greater Depression.

I hope to live a while longer so I’m optimistic that war will not result, at least in the short run.  You might make some preps for the short run anyway.  “JIC”

End:  of series:   Future of Mankind

Author: MuckAbout

Retired Engineer and Scientist (electronic, optics, mechanical) lives in a pleasant retirement community in Central Florida. He is interested in almost everything and comments on most of it. A pragmatic libertarian at heart he welcomes comments on all that he writes. View all posts by MuckAbout