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Society is reaching critical mass
American Thinker ^ | April 10, 2016 | Robert Arvay

Posted on 04/10/2016 4:13:55 PM PDT by upchuck

There is a limit to how much stress can be put on something before it is finally and irreversibly destroyed. It goes by several different names. Critical mass, tipping point, and system overload are but a few. In each case, the term refers to an event that finally breaks the camel's back (to use yet another term for the same thing).

Society is not merely reaching its critical mass; it is reaching it so swiftly that predictably, there will be an abrupt and catastrophic breakdown of historic proportions, eclipsing even the fall of the Roman Empire. [snip]

The backlash has up until recently been silent. That is changing. The Sanders and Trump candidacies are merely the rumblings of a volcano preparing to erupt. People are fed up.

No one can predict exactly what the spark will be that sets off the powder keg. All we can say with certainty is that there is a powder keg, and there is a lit fuse.

Boom.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: criticalmass; culture; socialbreakdown; systemoverload; tippingpoint
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To: Jeff Chandler

Very nice first paragraph. Felt like the tendrils of truth running up my spine.

Should have stopped there.


21 posted on 04/10/2016 5:01:00 PM PDT by Fhios (Going Donald Trump is as close to going John Galt as we'll get.)
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To: upchuck

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As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!


22 posted on 04/10/2016 5:05:07 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: subterfuge

When things get too heated “inside,” the leaders start wars with outsiders. This serves to consolidate the power structure and to distract the populace. It also has a side effect that current world leaders see as beneficial, reduction of population.


23 posted on 04/10/2016 5:06:30 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Fhios
Should have stopped there.

I am lamenting the lack of of concern for our society among our leaders.

24 posted on 04/10/2016 5:10:05 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (In this Year of Mercy, may God have mercy on us.)
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To: upchuck

Every generation in history since the birth of Christ has thought they were living in the End Times.

Just in recent history - the Civil War, WW I, Great Depression, WW II, Soviet threat, Korea, assassinations, VietNam.

Society is always reaching critical mass.


25 posted on 04/10/2016 5:12:27 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: DoughtyOne

“Apeople unwilling to use extreme violent force to obtain or preserve their liberty deserves the tyrannts that rule them.” me


26 posted on 04/10/2016 5:18:18 PM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: Travis McGee

This writer shares your opinion, all the way to the part about a collapse bigger than the Roman Empire’s.


27 posted on 04/10/2016 5:19:44 PM PDT by Lazamataz (When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.)
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To: CMB_polarization

Just think, there are 18 million deer hunters in Ameroca, that number is only for deer hunters and doesn’t include other types of hunters or sport shooters.


28 posted on 04/10/2016 5:20:13 PM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: stockpirate

While as a last resort I wouldn’t disagree, I think there is much more we could do short of violence.

One thing, is voting for a change instead of the same old DNC/RNC dog n pony show we’ve let practically destroy this nation for the last 60 years.

D1


29 posted on 04/10/2016 5:21:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: PROCON

“A people get the rulers they deserve.” Jefferson


30 posted on 04/10/2016 5:23:37 PM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: PROCON

“The American populace has been so dumbed-down that we deserve a President Hillary”

We sure got what we deserved over the past 8 years, with 51% and 49% of the corrupt American Electorate voting 0bummer in, and back in, TWICE.

We’re not going to survive another 4-8yrs of this crap.


31 posted on 04/10/2016 5:28:18 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: upchuck

When one side is the belligerent and the other has nothing left to lose...explosive wears result.


32 posted on 04/10/2016 5:28:25 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad

wears = wars


33 posted on 04/10/2016 5:29:12 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: DoughtyOne

It’s the threat of violence that can turn the tide, as Jefferson stated, “when the people fear the goverment you have tyranny when the government fears the people you have liberty.”


34 posted on 04/10/2016 5:32:25 PM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: stockpirate

Well, they’re scared ——less, that’s for sure.

And the man that makes them tremble, IS NOT the Dime Minister of Canada.


35 posted on 04/10/2016 5:40:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Ted, why are you taking one for the RNC/GOPe team, and not ours? Not that we don't know.)
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To: upchuck

We are the verge of a revolution much like in 17th century France. The Washington ruling class could find a scaffold waiting on the Mall. Madam LaFarge has her knitting ready


36 posted on 04/10/2016 5:42:53 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: DuncanWaring
Such a wonderful, chilling poem. This guy has a good synopsis, including the international events that were still resonating when Kipling wrote it.
37 posted on 04/10/2016 5:49:36 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: stockpirate
It’s the threat of violence that can turn the tide, as Jefferson stated, “when the people fear the goverment you have tyranny when the government fears the people you have liberty.”

For a good many years, our government has been operating based upon the assumption that we will not give them any reason for mortal fear. One day I hope to turn on the news and find that they miscalculated.

38 posted on 04/10/2016 5:54:01 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: upchuck

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/features/pursuits/4005421-theres-new-life-behind-all-black-zine-local-magazine-people-color

What do you think would happen if I made an “All White Zine” magazine.

Fed up doesn’t begin to describe my distaste at the racist entitlement.


39 posted on 04/10/2016 6:07:00 PM PDT by irishMN
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To: Jeff Chandler

Like what can we do? They have the game mechanics down to where they can do anything, legal or otherwise. They can break any law and get away with it, There’ all globalists and ivy league gentry. They make themselves and those that keep paying to keep them in power millions.

Repeal the 17th, give the states back the right to determine their own Senators. Disallow campaign contributions from out of state entities to in state political candidates.


40 posted on 04/10/2016 6:15:33 PM PDT by Fhios (Going Donald Trump is as close to going John Galt as we'll get.)
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