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werpor's avatar

Countervailing the establishment is so difficult as to be impossible. The attached chart explains why. The elite community is obviously so intrusive and so extensive and so vested especially in words, rather than the economy producing things all it produces is words. Assuming all these institutions employ as many people as rough calculation admits no wonder the U.S. is so much in debt. There is no real market for all those words.

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Tim's avatar

Great article.

Until the last paragraph. You simply assert the system will heal itself without giving really any reasons to expect that it will. Hit bottom? Wut? We’re not even using CBDCs tied to our social credit score yet.

Decentralization—reasserting federalism, nullification, and probably breakup—is the only viable and peaceful path I see.

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Bret Swanson's avatar

Yes, good point. I thought readers must be exhausted and depressed so asserted briefly (perhaps too briefly), rather than attempting to persuade, the possibility of restoration. That will take several more attempts focused on the HOW. Thanks.

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David's avatar

Great article!

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We The People's avatar

When you realise every single visitor to Epstein Island is now a CIA asset everything makes sense. The CIA were all over Epstein and everything was recorded. They now run the government, the pharma industry, the federal reserve and the media. RIP America.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

If you like Gurri (or even if you don't), I would recommend Christopher Lasch's The Revolt of the Elite, and The Culture of Narcissism. Deeper mining of long term American trends that explain how we got to where we are.

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Bret Swanson's avatar

Yes, Lasch is right on point. Thanks.

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cgg's avatar

The picture in the tweet from Peter Dasak is a perfect example of the propaganda: you are meant to see something beautiful and 'green' and associate with being 'good'. He knows damn well people are going to scroll past it given the nature of the platform. No need to read in full and discover pesky details that may give you pause to question. But they have given themselves some cover to allow them to say they put it out there. BS.

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kevin's avatar

Excellent write up and, well, disturbing.

I sometimes cannot find the optimism you reflected at the end of the writing.

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