I’ve gotten some emails
from folks asking my opinion on “How’s it all going to end?” As in, what major
crisis is going to finally cause the American Giant to fall down and go boom?
Guess what? There won’t be
a major crisis that does it. It’s going to be a slow cascade reaction of crisis
and disasters. What’s more, it has already begun. We’ve already seen several of
these disasters. More are on the way. The end has begun and is upon us.
Now, if you want to see what it will look like, have a look at Detroit. Here’s a city that was THE epicenter of American vehicle
manufacturing. The pride of American can-do hoo-ha and all that jazz. In fact,
I’m going to coin that phrase into a word to describe American
arrogance: American Candohooha. I know, it sounds like a river back east,
but let’s use it anyway. American Candohooha supported a population of over a
million people in Detroit. All kinds of snazzy buildings and houses. They
thought it’d last forever. Kind of like the ghost towns you find out here where
I live. They thought that would last forever, too, and now you need a topo map
to find these places.
(Full text at link below)
People have this idea
that the United States must remain united. Why? Many regions have different
interests. Like a relationship that went sour, this federal government thing
was nice when times were good, but we need to move on. We need to see other
people, or rather, see different flags flying above our state capitols. We’re
different people now. That’s not a bad thing, it just means we need to stop
trying to pound every square and triangular peg into the round hole. The federal government cannot
administer this entire country anymore. Look at Detroit. Look at the blighted
areas of every major city. Not to mention the aggressive nature of the federal
government in terms of cataclysmic wars it starts all over the planet.
Soon, it will become
apparent all over America that the future for them looks like Detroit. Detroit
was the first sign of the terminal illness that will fill the federal government.
In time, regions will learn they need to break
away for their own survival. Political ideology will not sell people on
secession. But half the supermarkets empty and the other half on fire will. Because the cascade towards that has begun and cannot be
stopped. It’s nothing to be afraid of. Nothing is permanent. Governments
arise and pass away, like the Romans. Rome is gone, but Italy is there. The
United States, too, will pass away. But new nations with better futures will
arise.
Full text at: The End Is
Not Near - LewRockwell
