Coping: The Revolution That’s Now in Progress

Maybe I missed something which caused ‘all this’ to happen.  Sure, it has been there in the predictive linguistics out of www.halfpasthuman.com (next run due around March 21) with its warnings of a country of years back that the ‘revolution meme’ would be running ‘hot’ (linguistically speaking) in this timeframe.  But,  even with the rickety time machine, there are events forming up that make me sit back in wonder:  Is this what “revolution” looks like? 

What’s interesting to me – and maybe it’s a symptom of increasing pressure of the socioeconomic/political/psychological sort – is America is developing a ‘hair trigger’ mentality.

It first popped conscious for me Sunday when a reader of the latest Peoplenomics report confused “George-reporter” with “George’s view”.

In my interview with Jim Goulding, he gave an interesting analysis of the conflict between generations; e.g. the Boomers, the 40-somethings (Gen-X’ers) and the young up and coming “Millennials” (Mills).  To which a reader sent in:

“I’ve never been actually PISSED that you were wrong – this statement is total and complete BS! ‘And, Xers? We all hate ourselves and think all the problems in the world are our fault. We are looking to the Mills to save us‘

UP YOURS for even thinking such a thing. X’rs ARE PISSED AT THE BOOMERS! Simply because they made a really comfy nest for themselves and fed us to the wolves.

We do not want our kids saving us, WE WANT THE BOOMERS OUT OF OUR WAY! Boomers by and large are complete idiots who have hid behind a facade of rules and regulations preventing the ascent of my generation – they have created nothing else. Just rules, rules, rules. If that is your take on the X’ers – Screw you along with the Charlatan boomer generation. Not sure I ever want to read / hear another word out of you – that’s your linguistics drop off. We stop listening.”

Until that email, the ‘revolutionary’ discussion had been – at least in my mind, a small place at that – to be confined to socioeconomic and possibly political outcomes.  But THIS was a whole LOT BIGGER.

But Wait!  There’s more.  A reader this morning sent it an email that got into how there’s a repolarization around racial lines going on as well and she noted a couple of examples from television and (as she read them) presidential books. 

She then got around to the topic of her email “The Revolution may already be here:”

“…ultimately, it seems that this country is loosing a lot of ground on the issue of mending fences, and all living “together.” my anthropological background would draw the conclusion that rather than Obama drawing people together, somehow he has created an impetus for the channeling of all old wounds into a new power of accusation rather than a melding of people. very worrisome. and part of that is just the reading between the lines of other things. of course, the problem is that history cannot be changed; therefore, if we are to base our interactions on historical injustice, there is no resolution…only a wound that grows ever larger, picked at and festering…

I’ve seen some other things but don’t wanna take up yer time, just thought you could throw this in your hopper…oh, saw a woman financial commentator from Davos; her comment was that she was very surprised at the power china had there this year, and how diminished the united states was as a power…

Other examples of the “Revolution in Progress” started to pop out of the headlines when looked at in this particular way.  For example, you saw where the (female) politic chief of King, North Carolina is in hot water because during a state of emergency due to snow, residents were barred from buying alcohol and firearms.

Now, it’s not like she personally declared ‘martial law’ – it’s just that when a state of emergency happens in many burgs, the ban on alcohol and firearms kicks in.  Stimulus-response.  Except, that America has been hypersensitized because of recent (historically speaking) events like the KatRita ‘canes that brought jackbooted thugs into our living rooms seizing Constitutionally protected rights and people have made it clear aren’t going to stand for that.

(Why someone would go out in near-blizzard conditions to buy a gun is beyond me, but I suppose that’s why I don’t living in NC… on the other hand, running out of rum for hot buttered rums that does make sense.)

I guess the key thing that’s dawning under what’s left of my hair is that ‘the revolution’ meme is not a one-dimensional political upheaval.  It has other dimensions as well:

• It’s the boomers having to give up their plans for a long and prosperous retirement since they allowed themselves to be ripped off by the banksters and fraudsters over multiple administrations who stole from Social Security Trust fund money, putting in dead-beat IO’s which will be paid back with deflated  purchasing power ‘script’.
• It’s everyone figuring out that since 1913 the Feral (sic) Reserve has deliberately diminished the purchasing power of savings by 2.3% per year by printing more money than a correspondent increase in GDP would dictate in order to assure US dollars would retain purchasing power.
• It’s the X’ers who are not seeing the Boomers ‘get out of our way’ so they can move into command-level of the economy.
• It’s the remains of the crooked Boomers in politics who figure that open borders/immigration will mean more low-end workers to fund the aforementioned ripped-off Social Security and now other frauds like the payment for the bankster bailouts and so forth.
• It’s the Millennials who are taking up an ‘ain’t never gonna be able to get me some’ mindset which is coupled with ‘planet’s been wrecked anyways…’ attitude which makes them an ‘ain’t got nuthin, so ain’t got nuthin’ to lose…’ group.  Mills buy a home?  Not even on the drawing board for my kids and they’re all pushing 30.  Are they pissed?  Yep.
• Then you’ve got several imperial cultures (Black and Hispanic) trying to change the prevailing media-portrayed paradigm…which is being fought with hard times/rise-up-against-oppression music, sexually explicit imagery, drugs, and, oh just for good measure more weapons than you can shake a stick at…
• You do have the ‘right’ tattoo, don’t you?  That’s like people are putting on their own UPC codes when they ‘too’ up…marks of the beast/ownership down at the archetype level.  Preconscious tribalism/retribing/ganging/role-assigning, stamped right here.  A rite of passage into….membership in….in…..well…what?
• Did I mention the growing anger around climate/’environmental destruction?

 

Which unfortunately doesn’t even begin to cover all of the social pressures that are moving America into Re-Revolutionary times.  I bet there’s a secret government study group that has figured this out as well and which whispers in the ear of people in Washington: “Ya’ll better keep BIG distractions like wars in the sandbox going, or this whole thing’s gonna blow…”

Seems to me, it may anyway.  At least that’s where the linguistics have been pointing and while those who see the future (like Cliff and others – e.g. Gerald Celente) have tried to keep discussion of the ‘revolution’ in a positive light (e.g. ‘revolution in spirit’, ‘revolution in technology’, and ‘intellectual revolution’) there’s a far more sinister set of forces developing that is pushing multiple towards the barricades and confrontation with authority on multiple fronts:

• Irresponsible finance
• Disappearing opportunity for advancement
• Imperial culture symbology (bling & pimped out rides)
• Unaffordable housing
• Soaring costs for basics like food & clothing
• Environmental destruction
• Slimy political officeholders who failed to Lead when they had a chance

 

Like the Peoplenomics reader who got pissed that I interviewed someone who ‘put it out there’, try not to confused George the Messenger with the news he’s delivering.  It isn’t pretty.

America’s being divided by supremacists of all stripe:  Supremacy of Federalism, Supremacy of Nanny State, Supremacy of Police/Anti-terrorism, Supremacy of Financial exploitation, Supremacy of intergenerational cost-shifting, Supremacy of the Boomers holding onto power, Supremacy of Bling and Street/Turf Power, and the list just goes on and on.  Did I mention the republicrats/democons – supremacists of their own FU’d paradigm who kill third party efforts to get fundamental ‘change’ on the docket?

So if you want to figure something big, try to figure out how to reverse the tide now flowing in human affairs. 

If we (as a nation) don’t wrap our arms around this problem set/meta set associated with “the R word” then we about lock in another word and it feeds into concepts that leaves a couple of billion dead littering modelspace over the next few years:  terra change and devolution.

Like Report from Iron Mountain said:  If America doesn’t have an external enemy, we have a bigger problem…

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We’re maybe going to have some snow out here at the ranch later on this week.  One to three inches I hear.

Got to run out today and buy much rum so as not to be impacted by States of Emergency I didn’t see coming.

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Not like I’m the sole bearer of bad news on this stuff.  Go read over the Paul Farrell story “How to invest for a global-debt-bomb explosion Prepare for an apocalyptic anarchy ending Wall Street’s toxic capitalism.”

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