I’m usually an optimist by nature.
But I see absolutely no reason for any optimism now.
Our political system has failed. Our debt has exploded. We’re moving to digital currency. The global political balance has been trashed. AI is here.
This is all bad. Very bad.
Science fiction writer William Gibson is two-thirds through a trilogy called the “Jackpot Trilogy”. The name is sarcastic because it posits human civilization hitting the “jackpot” of every imaginable disaster all at once early in the 21st century. Debt, war, pandemic, financial collapse, technology advances. All bad. All at once. The jackpot collapses civilization and causes enormous depopulation.
I think we’re there.
If we don't get a change in administration in 2024 I will definitely buy a year of survival food and water filtration equipment as well as solar powered battery systems for the home.