Finding out your henhouse is sitting on top of a fox burrow may be bad news but it's the news you need to hear if you want to ever eat an omelette for breakfast again.
Better to hear the worst because you can make plans around what you intend to do when the worst is what you are dealing with.
You are an extraordinary author on Substack and a good example of why it is the only place around for people who don't want to watch funny cat videos all day long right up until the moment they get nuked.
When I can't take the DOOM any more for the day I go and read Frank Wright, who usually has an optimistic take on the circus sh*tstorm we're all in. He is good for reminding me that change can also lead to something good in the end.
The problem with too much optimism is that it will get you killed every time. That's why I prefer reading somebody like you with no punches pulled ever!
Deeply Honoured by Your Kind Words, Good Sir! I am unworthy of such High Praise; I am but a DOOM merchant hawking some meagre DOOM wares!
Yes, that is basically my view on what Analytical work should be like. Euphemisms & 'Oh, things will be fine!'... the time for that stuff passed long ago.
It's better to (as you presciently noted long ago) tell the Truth & be Despised for it rather than Lie (or Dilute the Truth) & be well-liked.
Good Sir Frank is far more optimistic than myself (& a far better writer as well!), so he is also my go-to choice when I want to read some 'Treasonous Optimism' for a change after a long days of Toiling away at the DOOM Furnace. Great Choice!
You write amazing content. DOOM is ugly and as we discussed before it’s nice to realize it didn’t happen nearly as bad as expected. There are times I feel pretty good at the zeitgeist surrounding us today. I didn’t believe in 2021 we would still be allowed to discuss the contents we still do.
That new post from Simplicius called “Last Dance of the Vampire Ball” came out the other day. I believe it’s behind a paywall. When you read it you understand why the incoming DOOM is inevitable. There’s just no way around it unless you consider Nuclear Armageddon as a solution unfortunately.
That’s a different beast of its own accord. What we really need IMHO is to war game what the collapse scenario looks like. Just in case the nuke scenario doesn’t happen.
Have been trying to figure it out ever since I realized this shit was serious. Lots of things come to mind. A EMP or a cyber attack perhaps? Or a financial hit in similar fashion to the Great Depression. I mean that in the hardships that endure thereafter.
Americans could survive that and move on if we hadn’t been run over by “Divide and Conquer Rule.” The collapse of the USSR is fascinating. Admittedly I know little about though. Regardless of how nasty things got over there the people must be commended for NOT eating each other. Am not completely confident that Americans won’t. 😔
The United States is a 'Nation with Access to the Resources of a Continent.'
It will not be 'Fully Annexed' or whatnot. What I foresee instead (& I have an upcoming piece on this) is that the Coastal cities are outright taken by Foreign Powers, who then project military might & influence into the interior Heartland.
The Resistance will move back to defensible terrain like the Rockies & what have you, & from here you will get a 'Warlord era' of loads of small militias (200-300 men on average, armed to the teeth & very brutal) overseen by numerous Warlords.
These men will be Pragmatic, Remorseless & (most importantly) Fanatical. They will basically be holed up in the Rockies & elsewhere like the 'White Taliban' & Attrit away all foreigners who are silly enough to leave their Coastal holdings.
This will continue till the end of the century (most likely). Starvation will be used as a weapon by the Great Powers who occupy the coasts, & so the Warlords in the Heartland Interior will have to play the 'long game' to liberate America once more.
... That's sort of 'Big Picture' where I see things headed.
Lol I asked for it 🤣….was telling my buddy about the same. He was shocked because he assumed the financial collapse would be a fresh start. Am embarrassed to say he has listened to me for the last 10 years and he still thinks it’s all going to be ok.
But I don’t think so sir! We are the allegorical story told in the darkest tales of all the major religions. A lesson is always learned in the end.
In certain ways the Financial Collapse *is* a fresh start... namely for those who have Actual Skills (all manner of Agriculture, Mechanical work & working with one's hands in general)... for the HR people, tech bros, etc., it is the beginning of a long nightmare. That said, the hardiest of them will probably have enough humility to learn some *actual skills*, & will make it out alive in the coming years.
The Republic / Representative Democracy, has failed.
We say it has failed because it does not “promote the general welfare, and provide for the common defense” in ways in which we are in agreement.
And because nothing is more important than our national sovereignty, nor is anything so dear to our sacred posterity, we simply must adjust the mechanism of our government or finish the slide into disintegration.
The ball is in our court; since the authority for government comes from The Citizens.
So… how do we get there from here?
We now have to stand up and inform our representatives that they have broken their Oaths and failed in their Duty to the office in which they were entrusted. They are in Breach, and now must either accept our help by adding the Fourth Branch, The Citizens Branch to our government or Vacate the building.
Because Citizenship, true Citizenship, is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
Nothing short of this is going to ameliorate the present situation, nor will we get to the Stars without it.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable.”
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs.
He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
“It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government”, he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100 new bills are introduced and distributed.
The representatives are given two weeks to review the bills before they are brought up for The Vote.
Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
Many of these bills are in excess of two thousand pages.
The arithmetic demonstrates that the elected representative does not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
Since the Representatives cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their Party advisors tell them to vote.
This demonstrates that Representative government does not exist.
Thus, they have forfeited their delegated obligations to us, The Citizens.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making even more tragic mistakes, from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
With a new understanding we will also be able to accommodate new proposals initiated by us, The Citizens, for program and infrastructure improvements.
We, The People, could actually direct the priorities and review the progress of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries, school boards and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
Concerned Citizens could have AI parse a recent law or Supreme Court ruling into its actionable elements, apply the Ratify or Annul Questionnaire, then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Of course, you can. Use AI to parse the laws you find most egregious into their component pieces. And then have it build the ballot / questionnaire along with some demographic background to make the game especially interesting. Charge a $1 per voter per law to deliver the results of the poll to the government officials and watch the evolution in real time.
The Electronic Townhall becomes the means by which the Authority of the Citizens is used to Ratify or Annul the Propositions of Government.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the results of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we can all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency, he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living … until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
May your furnace of DOOM be eternally stoked O Merchant of DOOM!!! 🙏
Many Thanks for the Well Wishes! 🙏
Most welcome Ahnaf!
You're doing a great job, Ahnaf, keep it up.
Finding out your henhouse is sitting on top of a fox burrow may be bad news but it's the news you need to hear if you want to ever eat an omelette for breakfast again.
Better to hear the worst because you can make plans around what you intend to do when the worst is what you are dealing with.
You are an extraordinary author on Substack and a good example of why it is the only place around for people who don't want to watch funny cat videos all day long right up until the moment they get nuked.
When I can't take the DOOM any more for the day I go and read Frank Wright, who usually has an optimistic take on the circus sh*tstorm we're all in. He is good for reminding me that change can also lead to something good in the end.
The problem with too much optimism is that it will get you killed every time. That's why I prefer reading somebody like you with no punches pulled ever!
Deeply Honoured by Your Kind Words, Good Sir! I am unworthy of such High Praise; I am but a DOOM merchant hawking some meagre DOOM wares!
Yes, that is basically my view on what Analytical work should be like. Euphemisms & 'Oh, things will be fine!'... the time for that stuff passed long ago.
It's better to (as you presciently noted long ago) tell the Truth & be Despised for it rather than Lie (or Dilute the Truth) & be well-liked.
Good Sir Frank is far more optimistic than myself (& a far better writer as well!), so he is also my go-to choice when I want to read some 'Treasonous Optimism' for a change after a long days of Toiling away at the DOOM Furnace. Great Choice!
Congratulations on reaching this milestone! 💙💫🎉🎉🎉
Onwards and upwards!
Thank You, & Yes... I am definitely looking forward to growing my list of Dear Readers & Listeners! 🙏
Congratulations! Well played, well deserved, my dear friend.
Thank You, Good Sir! 😊
"The Doom Abides." A little humor from The Dude:
https://youtu.be/-JlmvtAHhnc?si=w9BsH6DWfH2BIv36
Oh and congrats on the milestone Ahnaf!!
Thank You Kindly Good Sir! 😊
You write amazing content. DOOM is ugly and as we discussed before it’s nice to realize it didn’t happen nearly as bad as expected. There are times I feel pretty good at the zeitgeist surrounding us today. I didn’t believe in 2021 we would still be allowed to discuss the contents we still do.
That new post from Simplicius called “Last Dance of the Vampire Ball” came out the other day. I believe it’s behind a paywall. When you read it you understand why the incoming DOOM is inevitable. There’s just no way around it unless you consider Nuclear Armageddon as a solution unfortunately.
That’s a different beast of its own accord. What we really need IMHO is to war game what the collapse scenario looks like. Just in case the nuke scenario doesn’t happen.
Have been trying to figure it out ever since I realized this shit was serious. Lots of things come to mind. A EMP or a cyber attack perhaps? Or a financial hit in similar fashion to the Great Depression. I mean that in the hardships that endure thereafter.
Americans could survive that and move on if we hadn’t been run over by “Divide and Conquer Rule.” The collapse of the USSR is fascinating. Admittedly I know little about though. Regardless of how nasty things got over there the people must be commended for NOT eating each other. Am not completely confident that Americans won’t. 😔
The United States is a 'Nation with Access to the Resources of a Continent.'
It will not be 'Fully Annexed' or whatnot. What I foresee instead (& I have an upcoming piece on this) is that the Coastal cities are outright taken by Foreign Powers, who then project military might & influence into the interior Heartland.
The Resistance will move back to defensible terrain like the Rockies & what have you, & from here you will get a 'Warlord era' of loads of small militias (200-300 men on average, armed to the teeth & very brutal) overseen by numerous Warlords.
These men will be Pragmatic, Remorseless & (most importantly) Fanatical. They will basically be holed up in the Rockies & elsewhere like the 'White Taliban' & Attrit away all foreigners who are silly enough to leave their Coastal holdings.
This will continue till the end of the century (most likely). Starvation will be used as a weapon by the Great Powers who occupy the coasts, & so the Warlords in the Heartland Interior will have to play the 'long game' to liberate America once more.
... That's sort of 'Big Picture' where I see things headed.
Interesting. Have you read "Twiglights Last Gleaming" by the druid American writer John Michael Greer. It seems to be transpiring.
Sadly I have not... but now that you have reccomended it to me Good Sir, I shall endeavour to read it in the near future! Thank You!
Lol I asked for it 🤣….was telling my buddy about the same. He was shocked because he assumed the financial collapse would be a fresh start. Am embarrassed to say he has listened to me for the last 10 years and he still thinks it’s all going to be ok.
But I don’t think so sir! We are the allegorical story told in the darkest tales of all the major religions. A lesson is always learned in the end.
In certain ways the Financial Collapse *is* a fresh start... namely for those who have Actual Skills (all manner of Agriculture, Mechanical work & working with one's hands in general)... for the HR people, tech bros, etc., it is the beginning of a long nightmare. That said, the hardiest of them will probably have enough humility to learn some *actual skills*, & will make it out alive in the coming years.
It is obvious to everyone....
The Republic / Representative Democracy, has failed.
We say it has failed because it does not “promote the general welfare, and provide for the common defense” in ways in which we are in agreement.
And because nothing is more important than our national sovereignty, nor is anything so dear to our sacred posterity, we simply must adjust the mechanism of our government or finish the slide into disintegration.
The ball is in our court; since the authority for government comes from The Citizens.
So… how do we get there from here?
We now have to stand up and inform our representatives that they have broken their Oaths and failed in their Duty to the office in which they were entrusted. They are in Breach, and now must either accept our help by adding the Fourth Branch, The Citizens Branch to our government or Vacate the building.
Because Citizenship, true Citizenship, is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.
Citizenship is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
Nothing short of this is going to ameliorate the present situation, nor will we get to the Stars without it.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable.”
Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs.
He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
“It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government”, he said.
Objective reality:
the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100 new bills are introduced and distributed.
The representatives are given two weeks to review the bills before they are brought up for The Vote.
Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
Many of these bills are in excess of two thousand pages.
The arithmetic demonstrates that the elected representative does not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
Since the Representatives cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their Party advisors tell them to vote.
This demonstrates that Representative government does not exist.
Thus, they have forfeited their delegated obligations to us, The Citizens.
And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making even more tragic mistakes, from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves in the final decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
With a new understanding we will also be able to accommodate new proposals initiated by us, The Citizens, for program and infrastructure improvements.
We, The People, could actually direct the priorities and review the progress of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries, school boards and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
Concerned Citizens could have AI parse a recent law or Supreme Court ruling into its actionable elements, apply the Ratify or Annul Questionnaire, then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Of course, you can. Use AI to parse the laws you find most egregious into their component pieces. And then have it build the ballot / questionnaire along with some demographic background to make the game especially interesting. Charge a $1 per voter per law to deliver the results of the poll to the government officials and watch the evolution in real time.
The Electronic Townhall becomes the means by which the Authority of the Citizens is used to Ratify or Annul the Propositions of Government.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the results of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we can all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency, he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living … until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
The Electronic Townhall
https://teletownhall.com/products/text-to-online-surveys/
https://publicinput.com/wp/online-town-hall/
https://www.govtech.com/archive/introducing-the-21st-century-city-hall.html
https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/2015/06/06/the-electronic-townhall/
https://abrogard.com/blog/2023/12/25/dont-write-to-congress/
https://swarmacademy.ai/