Delayed Healing is Delayed Growth

So…now the empire has started another fight with someone else whose crime was existing outside imperial control. It seems that the United States is ready to keep shouting into the void that “We are important!” Despite the fact that the agricultural industrial complex is about to collapse, and the educational industrial complex is becoming effectively worthless, we are still pretending that anything with the United States’ label on it is the best in the world. Well, people are no longer engaging with our delusions, and pretending that problems could never exist here is a surefire way to sustain them.

Everyone is running towards the artificial intelligence bubble now, which requires heavy water usage, fossil fuels, and technology designed to become obsolete so that people keep purchasing it. Does the United States have the majority of materials to sustain this latest obsession without drastic international interference? No, but then the empire has never been good about admitting limitations and changing its position when stubbornness is dysfunctional. The emperor is kicking out college students, changing the rules on migration, and refusing to back down from any of his highly problematic stances. In the background, the sycophants are still hoping that someone else takes leadership because “elites” never really want to do anything that requires conviction, just to look like they have it.

In truth, the only way to “fix” the empire is to shut it down, and that is the truth that so many people have been dreading. Delusion and entitlement have been comfortable for a century, and it is painful awakening to the fact that all of the “comfort” came at the hands of violence. Pretending that the empire is democracy is a game that very few people are willing to play, and the “elites” will either have to live up to their job titles, or accept that they never really had anything worth hearing. Meanwhile, the rest of the “poor slobs” at the bottom of the totem poles are looking to do anything other than sustain the comfort of the undeserving.