Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“It’s not enough to be against globalism or the WEF, we have to also be for something better.” — Tom Luongo, Gold, Goats ‘n Guns
Mr. Luongo makes an important point. I want you to think about this: there is a reason that the WEF-Globalist cabal is losing the battle to control and dominate the rest of us. They are trying to power straight into the opposing currents of reality. Above all, they seek to centralize power and decision-making. But the world is moving in the opposite direction. All of the WEF’s aims founder on the macro trends unspooling in history.
The rising rule for human affairs now is that anything organized at the giant scale is going to wobble and fail. There will not be any world government run by the creatures of Davos or Brussels, or Washington DC, or any other place that the grandiose imagine would be their seat of global power. It’s not going happen so you can stop worrying about it. But you’d better prepare for what is happening: everything in our world wants to get smaller, slower, finer, and more local. Anything that opposes these trends is pissing into the wind.
Since every activity we humans practice has to move in that direction, we are seeing colossal industries, institutions, and arrangements crack up: everything from national government to long-distance supply chains to giant retailing outfits to worldwide business networks to overgrown universities and high schools to transport matrices to metroplex cities to mega-farms to political parties.
Where the rot is probably greatest, but more veiled for the moment, is in the operations of organized capital, the banks and money systems, including financial markets. When these monsters blow, as they must, all the others will shake, rattle, and roll. They have to blow because the fuel tank is emptying.
American oil production may be at an all-time peak now at about 13-million barrels-a-day, but most of that — about 8-million — is shale oil, which is a manifestation of our tremendous debt roll-up since 2009. Now that we’re at the absolute limits of debt, we’re also at the limits of shale oil. The production of shale oil paralleled the accumulation of all that debt both in size and rate of increase, and as the debt goes bad — meaning, unpayable — the organized capital sector will blow and shale oil production will fall as sharply as it rose. It is also a fact that shale oil is subject to natural limits — we’re out of “sweet spots” to drill.
That’s America. Europe is way worse because aside from whatever oil is left in the North Sea (not much), Europe has no oil. Europe’s largest gas field — Groningen in the Netherlands — is scheduled to cease operations in October of this year. You all know what happened to the Nord Stream pipelines. And then Germany, in some psychotic fugue state, shut down its entire nuclear power industry, while France is just not replacing its nuke plants as they age-out. Europe is completely screwed. They won’t have anything we might call modern industry. In the meantime, the WEF is playing them like a flugelhorn, keeping them distracted with “green” politics, an unchecked immigrant invasion, and sexual confusion.
A lot of the same nuttery afflicts us in the USA, of course, but none of that alters the real macro trends. Our federal government is not really getting more powerful, it’s cracking up, starting from the very top, with a mentally incompetent president — the secret that everybody knows. Agencies like the DOJ and Homeland Security may seem more tyrannical for the moment, but they are actually breaking as institutions because in their lawlessness they’ve lost the trust of the people — and nothing is more fundamental to a civilized society than trust in the law. That’s what consent of the governed means.
So, the period of disorderly transition we’re in is not moving toward greater dominance by giants, but to the survival of the small and nimble. We will not see capital formation like the orgy of recent times; rather the vanishing of things falsely presumed to be capital, contraction not expansion. You’ll be struggling to identify and preserve real wealth, which you’ll find in unexpected places, like the friends you can count on, your reputation for honesty, your dependability, acquired skills, and your health, physical and psychological.
The WEF won’t be able to impose its Globalist nightmare of elite transhumanism and surveilled bug-eating serfs, and they know it now. They’re running scared. The vile Yuval Noah Harari has even said so publicly. The political figures and agents serving that cabal will be lucky if they are not hanged in the public squares. The political criminals here in America, the hoaxsters, the grifters, the seditionists, the Lawfare agents, the election fraudsters, know very well the looming danger of their prosecutions, and that’s exactly why the Democratic Party and its blob henchmen and flunkies are acting like desperate lunatics.
Expect: failed national governments, maybe even state governments; failed supply lines; failed electric supply, failed trucking, failed big box stores; failed supermarkets, failed giant companies; failed banks, failed investments, failed money, failed news orgs, failed airlines, failed car dealers, failed hospitals, failed colleges, and much more. But don’t discount human ingenuity and resourcefulness, our ability to work-around and reinvent systems for daily life, even if it’s on a downscaled and more modest level.
Expect rebuilt local economies from production to wholesale to retail. Expect smaller stores, fewer things to buy but much of it better quality. Expect a lot less long-distance travel but a lot more happening in your locality. Expect the rebirth of local culture — theaters, live music, news-sheets, dances — to replace all the canned entertainments we’re used to. Expect small private academies to rise to replace the shuttered central schools. Expect small, local clinics to appear from the ashes of the medical conglomerates. Expect Americans to return to churches as an organizing mechanism for community relations. Expect more formality and less slobbery in public. Expect all of us to feel a renewed sense of gratitude for being here instead of rage, resentment, and grievance, because it’s likely there will be far fewer of us around.
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I’m not against globalism.
And I certainly am not against clearing out a few billions useless unhappy living eaters.
So many are living miserable existences because they have adopted habits and patterns which harm themselves and others.
When you try to convince them to stop ruining their life, they become angry with the one helping them.
All those zombies walking the streets 9n drugs?
Kill them all Billy.
Few will ever recognize their true nature anyway.
Might as well start over.
You know where to start.
Ah, we have our first customer….
It will be a few minutes….
“We have to be for something better than the WEF.”
Uh, how about a constitutional republic as envisioned in 1776 Philidelphia?
Because it worked so well the first time?
Ummm.
Yes, Langley.
Until you secret police statist fucked it up.
Mass extermination to build the new man has already been tried and failed. Perhaps if we would stop vilifying males there would be far fewer drug addicts. As for the poor and low IQ, who are you to decide that their life isn’t worth being allowed to continue. Sounds like you may be a socialist, whether you know it or not.
Nope.
Just a realist.
The majority of the morons on earth will never graduate to reality.
I’m totally ok with ditching every single religion, including scientism.
We’re okay with you relieving us of one moron.
We’re okay with you relieving us of one moron.
Ah, our first volunteer!
George Bernard Shaw is that you ?
Glad to see someone knows Fabian Socialist bullshit when they hear it! Plus 1.
Truth:
So many are living miserable existences because they have adopted habits and patterns which harm themselves and others.
When you try to convince them to stop ruining their life, they become angry with the one helping them.
I like the comments responding to your comment Reset. Some seem to be intent on proving you correct.
Lol.
Good show!
So you support billionaires exterminating billions of unhappy people living in filth and squalor?
That is so cruel.
Far better to let them breed themselves into an even more desperate situation.
That’s what God does.
Let’s them breed themselves beyond what a given region of earth can support.
Pollute the shit out of it, and/or turn it into a desert.
Move to a new location.
Rinse.
Repeat.
Some humans are a fungal infection on the earth.
That they do not care if their actions harm self or others?
Is the mark for their destruction in my view.
TPTB already know who want to preserve this destructive system, and they will systematically remove all such impediments.
I choose to side with the earth.
Which is the same as taking gods side.
Or my own side.
I say damn the torpedoes!
Full poke ahead mr gates!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
A team of shithead Langleybots or a single shithead with multiple ID’s? Seems scripted at a minimum and cooked up just for us.
Central Screw playing games?
Nope.
Just a doosh anon smearing my good name!.
“Central Scrapenheimer!!!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!
Brilliant!
I really LOLED!
You got CIA bots in my FBI bots.
Maybe like Cardi B and Meghan Thee Stallion say: “Dey some ho’s in dis house, dey some Ho’s in dis house!”
Oh, did you already get your engraved invite to a DUMB?
Put an end to socialism, welfare, and all forms of charity handouts and Darwin will take care of the rest.
And before you all jump all over this, all politics is local, all community is local, and all help is local. Back when it was up to a community to support those in need, there were fewer needy as the community members knew who the slackers were and they got nothing. Those who setbacks and needed a helping hand received it. Community based charity helped people through tough times, it didn’t create an industry and generational dependence.
Whelp, Splitscutinizer.
Be the first and lead the way!
Thought so….
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Trade locally. Avoid television.
If generalized, those would doom GloboHomo.
Of course, so would the Ten Commandments.
The Nine Rules for Humans is far more helpful than those hideous rules for the hideous hebrews.
Can you imagine?
They were so disgusting waaay back then they had to literally ban buggery.
Which the Benjamites fully ignored when they raped a concubine to death as their proxy prize to the man they had initially desired to rape.
Judges 19 was the confirmed breaking of the covenant.
All the Benjamites should have been put to the death.
But they were not.
You can volunteer to be the first.
Question of the day while I will soon be suffering global warming,seems we will get 11″to 18″(wet/cement) snow tonight and tomorrow,no big deal(just a pain in ass),New England and have wood stove/gennies/rechargable flashlights long run(40 hours)/lanterns,plenty of food including a slow cook roast with potatoes now that will reheat in easy bake oven easily(remember,I have gennies!).
My guess is the store shelves are bare of milk/bread and a child in line with mother is asking why are the buying cat food when they don’t have a cat!
What is it with bread and milk,you like enough feel you would already have plenty in the home!
Folks have known for days coming,WTH is wrong with people?!
Anyhow,to those in path of this have fun and assume those reading here are ready.
And as always,Prepper Cat is with ya’s!
James, we had our winter storm a few weeks ago, 8″ dry powdery snow with temps low single digits and one night -8, the coldest it has been here since I moved 40 years ago. I watch the weather forecast and bought what I needed several days before the storm was due, made sure the gennie would crank and topped off all gas tanks/cans. A daughter who lives in town said the store shelves were almost bare the day the storm was forecast to hit.
I, too, am amazed that people tend to stock up on bread, milk and eggs when storms are coming and the quantities they buy are ridiculous. I suspect a lot of spoilage for these folks with very little common sense.
Hope you weather the storm well, my friend. And watch out for all those cats. Keep them well fed so you don’t wake up some morning as cat food.
Coldest night=global warming
As is the warmest day, the normal day, the wettest spring, the driest spring, the normal spring. ALL weather proves Globull Warming.
TN,the Ticked Tabby(i.e. Prepper Cat) and all me other buddies of mine thru the years feline and canine are off to the next chapter of life,miss the hell out of them.
I rent a home at moment and thus refuse till I get me acreage to get new pals to share my life with,that said,when I do among other things world holds together(or not for that matter)plan on having a foster/adoption no kill place on me lands.,good way to spend the last chapters of me life I feel.
I was determined to buy in N.H. but the same places with same flu pricing and am just burned out looking,am doing a road trip to north/west N.C.,saw places with a lot of land and at moment very low taxes,thus the road trip.Many friends say if I like want to follow.
I do buy there the land will be open to hunting and friendly people/nasty folks can just move on!
As for snow,as a young teen survived “Blizzard Of 78”,actually,week off of school and bad ass igloo’s/snowmobiling on the roads ect.,what’s coming our way just a major pest/pain in ass.
As always,here is James on a road trip!
James, E TN is also quite nice. If it wasn’t for the wife wanting to stay around the kids/grands, I would have immigrated to the white side of the state when I retired. No income tax and property taxes are quite reasonable.
I had a friend who lived in Mcdowell county in NC and said as brush hippy would fit right in with most folks,and the different mountain areas would keep me entertained for life.
I will also look in general are and perhaps even Tn. along with West Virginia,gonna hit the asphalt last week in March!
James,
If you pass through north centeral NC…stop by Buddy!
Granville County.
Mark,road trip grows,will be in touch later in March,I get a place trust me ,will be worth hunting on and more then welcome!
As I said,buddy loved the north west corner of state,hung with the hill people,only reason left was multi 6 figure offer on job,runs huge construction sites,travelled a lot but loved to be home as soon as possible.He is literally working in Saudi Arabia at moment!
A bunch of good people in the Appalachian mountains.
Bunch of bad ones too. Let’s not sugarcoat it. It depends on the neighborhood.
Nose milk fun!
I think Prepper Cat has been working out….
Trail Camera for lunch? IMHO, Cougars (the 4 legged kind) are one of the most majestic animals.
Damn,tis one big feline!
Insanely beautiful creature,
One of the myriad of God’s great creations.
People don’t believe in God because “Where are these miracles?”
Whelp, the miracles are all around you.
Do you have a wife or husband you love?
Miracle.
Do you have children you made together?
Miracle.
Do you have eyes? The unlikelyhood of vision in any creature defies everything “evolution” can explain.
Miracle.
Have you seen or heard something…anything that made you weep for nor apparent reason? Like art or music?
Miracle.
That fact you can contemplate what is a miracle is a miracle.
Breathe in the air and behold this magnificent animal and witness yet another miracle if you can.
Actually, beer & chips sell out first. And salsa/dip.
Lowcountry or NO country!
Come on James, you should know better. Its kool aid they’re selling you. Ma will not get 11″-18″. Even if you do snow removal is one thing they know how to do. Here in NH I predict no more than 6″.
Mid state seems about 4″ at moment according to me friends who live there,am ready no matter what hits except say a nuke/planet killing asteroid!
Powdered milk and eggs are things.
I have them.
When an entire civilization (being generous) exists on a heavily subsidized industrial base that meticulously maintains a thin-crust wonderland of escapism, comforts, and instant caloric density, the mundane yawns and stretches of mother nature open up fissures that drag whole people like melted cheese to the bottom of the oven as they wrestle the big questions of the day such as take-and-bake or delivery.
Beneath that thin crust is reality, with her cold indifference ready to sort out the density of skulls. And so it does not take much to thrust the porcine mollusks of modernity into an environment that might as well be outer space. It happens all the time. Suddenly for no reason at all, the tide goes out and the hungry gulls sing.
When I was but a kid doing rescue work almost every situation was not some lightning strike of misfortune dropped from the angry heavens but rather the meeting of the mundane in which the simple things of our natural world become massively complex, foreign, and thus dangerous to those who have left the bubble but failed to understand that there is even such a bubble and thus all of the subsequent decisions they are about to make actually increase the likelihood of self-cull.
The ganglion of media nodes tuned to run entirely on carbohydrate-encased industrial seed oils and THC that moves around most people cannot adjust to something as sudden as weather.
Every time I see a highway sign that reads “slippery when wet” I have to remind myself that the driver is totally dry and in a comfortable 72 degrees and at least 2 of his 7 cup holders are full of ENERGY.
Also, cat food needs salt. The wet stuff is the same price – or more than tuna. Which of course gives you ALZ from the heavy metals but thats a worry for tomorrow.
Commentor above descended from Meanderthals.
Auntie took it as a compliment for DV, yes?
“It is also a fact that shale oil is subject to natural limits — we’re out of “sweet spots” to drill.”
We’re not out of sweet spots. We have plenty of oil we’re choosing not to access at the moment. Also abundant coal and natural gas.
Very clear article. Not just a rambling of the week events that Kunstler often does.
The gist of it was likely correct, but the devil was in the details.
I agree , like what its gonna look like getting from here to there .
Expect all of us to feel a renewed sense of gratitude – instead of rage and resentment?
That’s probably the biggest crock of shit I’ve ever read by an author I respect. I will resent those who have destroyed the pillars of our society even after they are dead. The rage building in “all of us”, betrayed in so many ways by those we trusted, will morph into gratitude? I think not.
I am grateful for my blessings, even those that arise through hardship, but I doubt the future will let me celebrate them as I do today. Who, in Gaza, feels gratitude for anything in the midst of their complete destruction?
What I expect is WW III will bring their nightmare to everyone. The global unravelling that looms over our horizon will increase rage and resentment until every blessing is consumed in hellfire.
They will be grateful when the bombing and killing stops. /s
Probably everyone in Gaza who wakes up in the morning is grateful.
Everyone in Gaza has lost someone they love to Israel’s genocide.
Nobody has ever been grateful to wake up drowning in an ocean of grief.
Ah the old Kunstler dream of a World made by Hand …jobs.
Exactly!
Giant organizations and cultures always fail due to terminal complexity. Eventually they get too big, too complicated, with so many patches about which no one can foresee the consequences, that they collapse. Our own culture would have succumbed already if it weren’t for computers and the internet. However, each have also added layers and layers of additional complexity. For example cell phones that facilitate crime, riot and insurrection. AI is our next attempt to control the complexity and stay ahead of collapse. The trend toward smaller is both an attempt to eliminate terminal complexity and a sign that some of complexities wheels are beginning to fall off.
Right, and sadly too late for institutions learning from The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988) by Joseph Tainter. That smartly crewed, wooden ship has sailed away on a strong trade wind.
“…identify and preserve real wealth, which you’ll find in unexpected places, like the friends you can count on, your reputation for honesty, your dependability, acquired skills, and your health, physical and psychological.”
Matthew 6:
19-Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
20-But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy,
and where thieves cannot break in and steal.
21For wherever your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise,
~nice add, Moose.
That is real truth.
Perhaps if they didn’t get molested by the bible thumpers in robes they wouldn’t be in prison.
“the friends you can count on, your reputation for honesty, your dependability, acquired skills, and your health, physical and psychological”
These ^^^^ are the treasures “stored up in heaven” that do not rust or rot, and can not be stolen.
Are you suggesting that heaven is a state of mind?
Yes.
Dang……that was a feel good piece today !
All true, but you got to admit, it was a great trip while it lasted.
Mr. K and I are contemporaries and native NYC boys from an era now shrouded by the mists of time. We also have in common serious misgivings that “America” will ever be “great” again in the way that once it was. Thirty years ago, I decided to seek greener pastures elsewhere and within four years of grinding capital accumulation was able to take my shot, believing that downsizing would eventually be the societal order of the day. The currency-capital pile has slowly but surely been converted into productive tangibles likely to maintain value for what remains of my life and likely to provide value to my children and grandchildren as well.
While I don’t foresee a “world made by hand,” I am convinced that a significant simplification in global economy and social structure is in the offing, perhaps quite soon, perhaps not, but sooner or later… What I do see along with Mr. K is an increasing localization and overall decentralization of the always-imaginary “global village” that has never been more than an interconnected agglomeration of hostile neighborhoods on steroids.
Choose your neighborhood wisely, be considered a good neighbor by fellow inhabitants and direct your economic endeavors inwardly. It may not be a foolproof plan, but it beats the bejeezus out of signing on to globalization.
Yea Buddy!
Mr. K and I are also contemporaries (Mostly raised in Edison NJ) from an era now shrouded by the mists of time…and my long gone Yout!
Here is my chosen neighborhood recent development:
A 25 year friend is running for Congress in my recently redrawn mostly rural district…there are 14 Republican Candidates.
Now I know the corruption of the Uni Party, but I also know this man well, and we know one another’s life story…and he is the real deal, and he has no – zero illusions about what he is stepping into.
My rural area has been part of the distant overwhelming local black and blue bubble the 12 years I have been living in what I call… ‘mark’s Last Stand’. Sign at the second gate under a high grade expensive camera and four motion lights expresses my attitude.
‘TRESPASSERS WILL BE COMPOSTED!’
So the long time Congress Critter since I have had here was a liberal black…and now the new redrawn district is mostly rural and he has retired…and I suspect now would have no chance.
I am doing what I can to get my friend the nomination in my town with my contacts, the owners of the Army Surplus Store and the owner of the Gun store who both are political and outspoken (I have been a serious customer of both) and hopeful their extensive customer base…and every person I know in this new district.
I had another friend try this 15 or so years ago in another district, I attended some of his team meetings, and submitted some possible speech lines, put out signs, went to the debates to support him, he was a man of similar high character, but he came in second out of three Republicans running for the nomination (that friend had very little $$$$)…and the winner lost to a long time liberal Democrat.
This friend has the $$$$ and it is all his own…If he gets the nod (if there even is an election) I will go all in for him…if he was to win, and the election actually is held (I have my doubts) I will know we will have one honest Congressman who will stand tall.
I call my place ” The Last Resort ” .
Hello my friend! Good luck to your pal! He’ll likely need it, more so if he wins, given the temper of the times.
Expect: failed national governments, maybe even state governments; failed supply lines; failed electric supply, failed trucking, failed big box stores; …
The more reason not to throw away those old shoes and boots. Even worn if they fit and ain’t “leaking” put ‘em in the bug out bag(s).
Ok, I am all ln.
Who decides?
Do the other eight and a half billion have a say?
Pouring another eye. Redemption actually.
Freedom for all and government small enough to fit into a 10 x 10 office space (with ZERO POWER).
The second-to-last paragraph is the only one Kunstler will be correct on. I like his writings, but this one, he’s almost completely wrong.
The WEF-Globalist cabal is NOT losing the battle to control us – they are merely in a retreat and re-examining their plans to dominate us all, then they’ll come out with another alternative or sleight-of-hand plan.
They’ve gamed this over & over, and they won’t stop with their barrage until they achieve their goal.
There will be a world government, we just don’t know when.
Rev 13 (ESV)
Nah nah no Kunstler , ” The sweetspot “( I invoked it ,contemporarily, around here ) is that point between not enough and too damn much of something / anything that mankind seems never to be able to recognize . Nice write up other than that though, yeah , “Too big ( and complex ) {not} to fail “is what we have in the here and now because we didn’t ,and never do recognize” the sweetspot “when we are in it . Its just in our nature .Its also what I mean when I say ” well enough the hell alone ” as in, we shoulda , coulda, woulda ,but of course didnt leave it that way .