People revolt when they can’t take any more. They don’t need a plan for what comes next, they just need a critical mass of desperation and anger. Too many people still feel that they have more left to lose.
I don’t think we’re close to that uncomfortable as a nation and I will be surprised if the world’s wealthiest forces let this cash-cow get that far. It’s going to be long, slow, painful bleed-out until our children’s children hold up pictures of families who own homes and cars and have three meals a day and wonder what happened to those days.
That’s assuming history won’t have been re-written and our descendants won’t be taught that their world of ruin and disease and starvation isn’t actually much better than “the old days” because they will also have AI that makes music for them and medicine that some people can afford sometimes.
I do agree there is a good chance that the current gaggle of fascists and grifters who wormed their way to the top will overplay their hand, move too fast, break the wrong things and make a lot of people very, very mad.
The problem with courting the worst, most mentally deficient rural hicks and heavily-armed orcs in your country, is that you then have to worry about keeping said mentally deficient rural hicks and heavily-armed orcs happy with new, engaging storylines and wrestling villains on-screen or they will get mad and storm the buildings where you are trying to run things.
We have people like Stephen Miller, RFK Jr, Hegseth, Vance and Patel and about a dozen other people literally running the nation who are only qualified for podcasting and posting racist memes, it just takes a couple of them to get in an argument with each other about which underage anime chick is hotter or get called out as a nazi-diaper-fur in a press conference for someone to do something unhinged and do something that causes people to miss a couple meals. Then we will see smoke rising from the cities.
People revolt when they can’t take any more. They don’t need a plan for what comes next, they just need a critical mass of desperation and anger. Too many people still feel that they have more left to lose.
I don’t think we’re close to that uncomfortable as a nation and I will be surprised if the world’s wealthiest forces let this cash-cow get that far. It’s going to be long, slow, painful bleed-out until our children’s children hold up pictures of families who own homes and cars and have three meals a day and wonder what happened to those days.
That’s assuming history won’t have been re-written and our descendants won’t be taught that their world of ruin and disease and starvation isn’t actually much better than “the old days” because they will also have AI that makes music for them and medicine that some people can afford sometimes.
I’m not so sure. Those “forces” aren’t as rational as I used to think. Things seem to be speeding up in our collective race to the bottom.
I do agree there is a good chance that the current gaggle of fascists and grifters who wormed their way to the top will overplay their hand, move too fast, break the wrong things and make a lot of people very, very mad.
The problem with courting the worst, most mentally deficient rural hicks and heavily-armed orcs in your country, is that you then have to worry about keeping said mentally deficient rural hicks and heavily-armed orcs happy with new, engaging storylines and wrestling villains on-screen or they will get mad and storm the buildings where you are trying to run things.
We have people like Stephen Miller, RFK Jr, Hegseth, Vance and Patel and about a dozen other people literally running the nation who are only qualified for podcasting and posting racist memes, it just takes a couple of them to get in an argument with each other about which underage anime chick is hotter or get called out as a nazi-diaper-fur in a press conference for someone to do something unhinged and do something that causes people to miss a couple meals. Then we will see smoke rising from the cities.