Continue reading THE ONLY THING SYSTEMATIC IS THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA, b : legal or official authority, capacity, or right, 2 a : possession of control, authority, or influence over others, b : one having such power specifically : a sovereign state. Inspired by the courage of other writers out here on the still-free internet, I thought Id add my two cents, as it were; an American Nobody speaking truth to power. People worried about their own lives, their own families, and their own local communities. Now the country has become very politicizedeverybody has a loud voice and they use votes as weapons against their neighbors. They use the ancient Roman idea of the saeculum to map out American history, and its eerily accurate. A cancel culture has revved into high gear, claiming scalps including that of aNew York Times editor. Based upon history, the resolution will not be based on compromise, civility, reason, or peaceful means. As I noted in 2017, All signs point to it getting much worse. Our analysis at Peak Prosperity is this: the days of constant exponential growth on a finite planet are drawing to a close. There are a few bright spots. Matt A. Mayer is president of the free-market think tank Opportunity Ohio and author of three books on federalism. Their book,The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy What the Cycles of History Tell Us About Americas Next Rendezvous with Destiny, helped me piece together whats going on in American society and why it seems to be on the brink of collapse. International Man: What happens after a crisis? As economist Nouriel Roubani writes, the sudden shock to the global economy from the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating a massive collapse that will be more severe than either the 2008 global financial crisis or the Great Depression. Doug Casey: Strauss and Howe take a cyclical point of view over the course of roughly 80 years, four generations. This explains why those who control narratives can determine actual outcomes: because those with the loudest bullhorns, so to speak, decide what most people will perceive as true in any certain place at any given time. This coming generation will be no different. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. How citizens view the changes realized by the United States over the last few decades, in particular, will depend upon their interpretations of probabilities and outcomes; or, rather, to the extent they believe in coincidence or conspiracy. In The Fourth Turning, a, Crisis arises in response to sudden threats that previously would have been ignored or deferred, but which are now perceived as dire. The Fourth Turning: An Saint Ignatius said this in the 17thcentury, and Lenin repeated it in the 20thcentury. I wrote therein: let their lies, tokens, and idols be smashed, at the very least, by online memes. 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