I wish I could tell you something that will make you less anxious, butFullMoon wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 10:28 am> What are the feelings of the readers about how close we are to
> something more life changing than the pandemic? We've had what
> could be seen as multiple massive events in a short period of
> time. We're at the end of the era and it's not here yet but
> really, we can feel it now and it's a part of our daily lives.
> Just 2-3 years ago it wasn't half this bad. It's happening fast
> and getting faster. Please John give your estimation on the speed
> of the unravelling because it's uncomfortably quick now. Thank
> you
let's face it, if that's what you want then you're asking the wrong
person.
As I've been saying for a long time, we're headed for a global
financial crisis and a world war. The timeline and the scenario
cannot be predicted. All that we can say is that the probability that
it will begin "this year" increases each year.
Still, you've raised an interesting point that I've noticed and other
people have noticed as well. There's a kind of "quickening," where
the world is deteriorating more and more quickly, and crises are
worsening and occurring more and more frequently. Since you've asked
the question, it's worthwhile to give some of the reasons why it's
happening.
The core reason is that the Silent generation is now gone. These
people lived through WW II, and they saw war, famines, massive
homelessness, political forces driven by sheer insanity. When they
came of age in the 1940s and 1950s, they created institutions like the
United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the
Green Revolution to make sure that the mistakes that led to WW II
would not be repeated. The Silent generation ran those institutions
and made sure that they succeeded.
The generational Crisis era (Fourth Turning) began in 2003, which is
when the people in the Silent generation almost all disappeared, all
at once. The Boomers had already created a tech bubble in the late
1990s, and the Gen-Xers got revenge by creating the subprime mortgage
real estate bubble, which began to explode in 2007. That was also the
year when the counter-terrorism efforts in the war in Iraq were
successful, with George Bush's "surge."
Barack Obama was the first Gen-X president, and it was one disastrous
policy after another. He couldn't close Guantanamo prison, but he
released the jihadists that are now returning to lead al-Qaeda. His
rollout of Obamacare was the biggest IT disaster in history. On the
day of the launch, so many people had lied to him that he didn't even
know that the entire system had crashed hours earlier, and was not
operational for months.
Those are just a few examples of how things have changed since the
generational Crisis era began in 2003. Here are some other examples:
- Public debate in almost every country in the world is growing
almost out of control. Central banks around the world are preventing
a crash for as long as they can by pumping trillions of dollars of
printed money into the banking systems. - The world population is growing so quickly that more people are
being pushed into starvation and poverty. I always refer to this as:
the population is growing faster than the food supply. - It used to be that there would be only one or two humanitarian
crises going on at the same time. But today, there are over a dozen
humanitarian crises. Covid has made this worse, but the number
growing before the pandemic because of increased starvation and
poverty. - The last few years have seen huge refugee crises in Asia, the
Mideast, Europe, and America. These are caused by the same starvation
and poverty. - The same starvation and poverty has resulted in local clashes and
riots that have the potentional of expanding. - Since Biden has become president, he has turned decision making
over to millennials like AOC who are sabotaging America. The result
is open borders, floods of illegal immigrants from dozens of
counrties, spreading Covid and bring jihadists into the country;
massive street crime in cities across the country; and now this
unmitigated disaster in Afghanistan. - China is suffering severe demographic problems, and Xi Jinping is
under pressure to do something, especially about Taiwan. He cannot
afford to wait much longer.
more and more rapidly, I would name two core reasons in this
generational Crisis era: the survivors of WW II (Silent generation)
have disappeared, leaving decision making in the hands of idiot
children, and the population is growing faster than the food supply.
