4 Tweets 9 reads Jun 01, 2023
Recurrent theme among white collar workers in 30s-40s is ‘did I really spend all that time in school for this?’ Economy deadens intelligent people, makes them feel trapped, humiliates them.
This is why the globalist system will collapse eventually. It’s Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
This is also why people flooded the streets in 1914 celebrating the outbreak of WW1. People threw off their deadening shackles, suddenly felt alive.
From 1815-1914, there were little contained wars among great powers, but nothing explosive. It’s now 2023, and nothing dramatic in world stage implications has erupted since 1945. It’s a matter of time.
To the people who say ‘it won’t collapse soon.’ That’s possible. But when overly rigid complex systems that immiserate the majority do collapse - it happens shockingly, suddenly, for reasons no one foresaw. So this could all end in a few years, decades or even a century or two.

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