Not quite sure how to take this.
—Not quite sure how to take this.—
Reference to Atlas Shrugged. If you have not read it, it’s hard to take it any way. ;-)
I call my new place in Kentucky “Galt’s Plateau”.
I was telling my republican friends, back in 2008, that they may not want their guy to win the election because whichever party won would be blamed for the hurt coming down. But I didn’t think they could so successfully continue to kick the can down the road as they have, though ensuring that when this thing does pop it will be a bigger bang than originally thought.
I do not consider my position defeatist. I consider it realistic. When doing a risk assessment I am required to factor in the likelihood of a bad thing happening, the impact if it does happen, and the cost of mitigating the risk.
In my analysis of what has been going on the last 100 years and, specifically, the last five, I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that we are headed for the biggest worldwide crash in the history of mankind. There is no human solution to this. It will either end in world war or the establishment of the Antichrist - or both. The problems are just too big and cannot be resolved without massive debt and crime forgiveness, which will alienate many, many people and some countries. This will result in conflict followed by armed conflict. There is no way out of this short of aliens coming down and “fixing” this. I’m not holding out for that.
With that in mind, I find my options limited to “surviving” what happens. Starting two weeks before Obama was elected I started putting it all into action. And as events have progressed, I’m more convinced than ever that I was right to do so. It is, frankly, one of the few things I have gotten right. If you were to take yourself from five years ago and say that the world would be where it is today, and specifically the US, you would have called it a doomsday scenario. But we’ve lived it and gotten used to the change and don’t see it for the significance that it holds.
Watch the movie, The Pianist, to get a feel for how people can adapt to changing times with the false hope that it will work out in the end. Sometimes you have to do what is best for your own family and not put your trust in your government. Sometimes this means creating your own “Galt’s Gulch”.
And if you have not read Atlas Shrugged, you really need to. Sure, it gets a bit preachy in places and it’s rather thick, but the parallels in the world in that story to what is actually happening in our world today will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
And then remember that those things sounded patently absurd just a few short years ago. Especially in the US.