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[Higgenbotham]

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future

http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/oreskes/daedalus.pdf

[aedens]

Next time do not kill all the trees since they are the lungs of planet. As t notes “94 percent of college professors were found to
believe their (own) work was above average.”
Also jump into Lake Michigan "the year it did not warm up" last week it was 15 degrees colder than before.

Only when the last tree has been felled,
The last river poisoned,
The last fish caught,
Will you recognize that you can't eat money.
-Cree-

The moral clarity of the early days of the uprising has been lost. As John noted the syrian issue is just killing fields for the sociopaths who have all the time in world to butcher as they feel fit with these nut jobs. As a taxpayer both sides can tear each other to oblivion so why and the hell should we care about pipelandostans, and still the Senate wishes to play army and diplomat with these nut jobs in the sand box running red. As we know moderates in the classical sense as Thuclydides notes are deadmeat plain and simple. Over here the free shit army may just take us down Higg. Any reason to be over there as history has noted is to let them ascend to there mountain of wisdom alone. When they come down they have imposed there own prison built on stupidity as a cork in a bottle.

totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion
moderates understand confusion shelters corruption
just that simple

When pestilance "nature" and military meet as before from Athens forward the pattern can and has been repeated.
Another facet would be since they are educated as we noted correctly so no excuses...that one might ask the question, "Aren't American socialists in favor of their own country's survival?" To answer this question, we must turn to abnormal psychology. Socialism... is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created. Don't show me eight apples Washington you never worked for and then try to tell me I have ten austerity apples to tax. It only makes you all look stupid.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... 16575.html

[Higgenbotham]

My guess would be that attempting to mitigate the effects of global warming, assuming it does exist, would speed the collapse into the dark age by taking growth below levels whereby the population can be sustained. So it's no win no matter what direction is taken. Taking a true and smart pro growth policy would have delayed it. But it can't be just stupid growth as in QE. That is not real growth and doesn't allow for real growth, just status quo, which is why I say Bernanke has led the world into an inevitable dark age anyway.

I found it interesting that academia would entertain publishing something like that. I would think the world will collapse into a dark age long before global warming takes the system down. If that's the only thing on their radar they haven't thought it through. In fact, global warming should work against the collapse for awhile with improving crop yields. Global cooling would be the thing to be worried about at this point.

[aedens]

Less than 1% of Paper Markets Take Delivery
The rest is raisons picked out of crap just like the 2005 to 2007 morass. I think those who protect assets as in water, soil and the actual nature of thing
will be beaten senseless but have a chance with these generational educated drones who simply cannot fathom events. Like I was in the mid seventys, until wait a minute they lied, and I am not a crook we got weaned on with these sociopaths. Nothing from them is real, just get along in your self licking ice cream cone since we have them educated just as we need them to be. I think the only thing these nut jobs lament is just being as a theif being caught and thinking taxpayers ever had a backbone, which clearly they do not. Like the retired mil in the family note, we toured the world as it swirled like a toilet bowl. As we note the plumbing backed up here so it needs to be disinfected after its cleaned up. So many isms now they can cherry pick whatever they wish as they ride the colored horses at will. We are old enough to see the facts and they are young enough to blame a whole segment on affaris they support in the booth.

[Higgenbotham]

The reason civilizations consisting of towns with immobile populations of 2,000 or fewer people work is everyone knows who the con artists are. And they are marginalized, or killed, or nobody lets their daughters marry them. Get a mobile population any larger than somewhere around 2,000 in an area, then deceit begins to spread out of control. Deceit is the core reason a civilization collapses. Nothing can save a civilization when deceit runs out of control.

[aedens]

Dunbar's cognitive limit of the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships is at times hard to agree with.
Trade and affairs is not difficult since without it armys march on borders so there we are. In the past things got so bad no was around
to tell how bad it was. http://ww2.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exh ... _flood.htm
Politics and economics has no grip on the reality of mother nature and patterns seen before. He is gone for many years now
but he lived in Ohio and stated the storm over Lake Erie was to intense Ohio never had a chance and they barely survived. The reports
from the State was a lie he said point blank. The reality and nature of the people ago had no time for nonsense we tolerate today. I heard the progressive appeal now to seal the borders to protect what natual resources we have left so indeed John's notice on mood has indeed changed. Meanwhile the so called
fundementalist groups want weapons abolished. Sorry to tell you media moguls fundamentalist are not village or useful idiots and we do not
back down from thugs no matther what crayon color they use in the press.

[Higgenbotham]

Window of Opportunity: Blown

http://www.safehaven.com/article/30465/ ... nity-blown

More are coming to that conclusion.

[aedens]

I find it better to consider the people not sleeping on dirt floors a better thought going forward.
Those two seem to be ok Chaps but I like slim chances as we seek solutions. Life is hard at times
and worth the fight to those we regard.

[Higgenbotham]

The mood seems to be swinging more negative. The Fed should have let things be. If people wanted to sell stocks, let them sell stocks and get it over with. There would have been buyers at some price had they left things alone. There may not be buyers at any price when this dam that has been held back breaks. This is what I see in the mood of the apocalyptic articles coming out. If a few people are thinking like this at a market top the bottom shows the possibility of being very ugly.

[Reality Check]

Historically, what has brought countries out of a decline due to lack of demand has been a good "all hands on deck" war.

At least that is what happened during the Great Depression to ramp up the production of actual things, as opposed to a production economy for some and a subsistence economy for others.