Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

Cell phones vastly reduced crime on stranded females but everything has its price. Women are still going to want their pound of flesh so to speak and they will figure out how to get it. Bezos et al should understand this but I'm pretty sure they do not.

The men will too. When the men at Cornell said "free pussy" they meant it. It was free in such situations 40 years ago. Cell phones haven't changed that except to leave a record. The lesson learned will be to continue getting it but don't leave a record.

As the new dark age tightens its grip, the general trend will be for leadership to appear to worsen and for more frequent changeover of leaders. Whoever gets the Senate seat in Texas will likely be worse than the one who vacated it. Whoever replaces Trump will likely be worse than Trump, as difficult as that is for the left to believe.

[Higgenbotham]

As the new dark age tightens its grip, the general trend be for leadership to appear to worsen and for more frequent changeover of leaders.

AI does another fabulous job here.

In the new dark age, will the general trend will be for leadership to appear to worsen and for more frequent changeover of leaders?

AI Overview

Based on historical patterns of societal contraction—often metaphorically called "Dark Ages"—the general trend does indeed lean toward volatile leadership changeovers and a perceived decline in leadership quality, driven by systemic collapse rather than just bad actors.

When complex civilizations fracture, the institutional guardrails that ensure peaceful, competent transitions disappear. This creates two distinct dynamics:

1. Accelerated Leadership Changeover (The Velocity of Chaos)

During periods of structural decline, leadership becomes highly unstable.

Loss of Legitimacy: When a government can no longer provide security, basic infrastructure, or economic stability, it loses its "mandate."
The Survival Loop: Leaders are frequently overthrown, assassinated, or replaced because they cannot solve systemic crises (like resource scarcity or climate shifts).

Historical Example: During the Crisis of the Third Century in the Roman Empire, a 50-year period of near-collapse, there were over 26 claimaints to the imperial throne. Most were military generals who ruled for only a few months before being assassinated.

2. The Appearance of Worsening Leadership (Perception vs. Reality)

Leadership often looks significantly worse during a dark age, though this is a mix of actual skill degradation and impossible circumstances.

The Impossible Job: A leader in a golden age looks brilliant because they are managing abundance. A leader in a dark age looks incompetent because they are managing unavoidable triage. Even a political genius cannot fix a collapsed supply chain or an depleted agricultural base.

Shrinking Talent Pools: As centralized education, bureaucracy, and institutional knowledge break down, the pool of trained, strategic leaders shrinks.

Shift to Warlordism: Survival replaces governance. Complex, forward-thinking diplomacy is replaced by short-term, transactional, and often brutal rule (warlordism). To the citizens, this looks like a massive regression in quality and morality.

The Cyclical Exception

While fragmentation causes high turnover early on, it eventually bottoms out into a different kind of stability: highly localized, stagnant feudalism. Once power shrinks down to small, manageable territories (like a local warlord or a fortified manor), a brutal but durable form of local leadership often emerges, ending the rapid cycle of changeovers until a new integration phase begins.

So as the next round of Socialism or Socialistic leadership emerges, expect things to worsen further and for some other brand of incompetent leadership to quickly take its place.

[aedens]

Yes it already started. My view was from February 2023 in to 2024.
The delay is just traction in the current design wasting.
Move from EU to Thailand and the US. was leading indicator of the broader flow.
It matters for currency, credit, and commodity markets which is the last leg of the chair they will
try to remove to implode limited value added zones that are already clear enough.
Complete reset into complete digital currency in the already polished model entirely new tyrannical police state already well advanced
so yes, the old system will be wiped. Taxpayers here are to be emptied blood bags in the Vampire Economy as they think they do just that with the incoming Brain Virus labeled Democrats. The next three years will drain what was able and only allowed to survive the next few years as already is known as the Carbon Cults hardens the rot around them as warned.