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Having lived and worked in the US from Atlanta to Traverse City Mi. and returned to Canada after 9/11, I remember my time here fondly. I currently winter in S Florida and when I look around me and compare what I see in China and even Russia, I see zero possibilities for the US with Trump or anyone else doing what China has done in a coup…
Having lived and worked in the US from Atlanta to Traverse City Mi. and returned to Canada after 9/11, I remember my time here fondly. I currently winter in S Florida and when I look around me and compare what I see in China and even Russia, I see zero possibilities for the US with Trump or anyone else doing what China has done in a couple of generations or Post WWII Germany or Russia did in a little over One. The elites are parasitic dreck, extracting wealth from financial and other devious means. Europe, not much better. China "owns" the supply chain for almost everything and I don't see anyone able to compete with them. The freedom to Walk on the street of the largest cities, day and night and have a home "homes are for living in, not for speculation" Xi Jinping. The constant improvement of the lives of the people in China and Russia compared to two generations of decline in the western countries is breathtaking. Hope I'm wrong but a short walk from where I'm typing this puts me in the hood and this would apply to most US cities.
Visited China many times many years ago. I walked around many places on my own as a woman, never felt threatened at any time. Unlike the USA where I also lived for 22yrs.
Only lived in China for five months before Covid, but it was enough to come away very impressed.
No ‘BAU’?
‘Most’ ‘economic thinking’ is ‘short run’ and ‘redundant’?
‘It’ ignores the ‘supply side’?
‘Growth’ {and ‘civilisation’} depends upon ‘cheap’ F.F. – those so called ‘halcyon days’ are ‘over’. ?
“The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . .
And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/ https://www.facebook.com/cosheep