Managing narratives has (totally) replaced actually solving pressing problems. It's now impossible in America to actually address pressing problems without stepping on the toes of one politically powerful and politically sacrosanct cartel or another, and so problems fester and multiply to the point they cannot be solved within the status quo, regardless of how many trillions are conjured and squandered.
To mask the coming collapse, narratives must be tightly controlled. Since collapse can't be forestalled without making powerful enemies, the only politically expedient option left is to eliminate any dissent that questions the officially sanctioned happy stories (lies).When a society and a state give up the search for solutions because real solutions will negatively impact politically powerful cartels, collapse is only one step away. It's all fun and games in the unwinnable wars and simulacra reforms stage, but managing narratives isn't the same as managing the real world, and the real world eventually crushes the happy-story narratives and those who actually believed them.
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Our Norman Vincent Peale.
Well said, Dude. Right now a certain president is standing in the way of narrative control. There are also a vice-prez and house speaker who aren't exactly shining examples of the kind of narrative they'd like to keep in front of us so it should be interesting.
Dad, it's not just the malAdministration; it's the Federal bench, in large part; Democrats in Congress, along with the NeverTrumpers, and the vast gray faceless mob known as Federal civil service.
And, if there's going to be a collapse, it's going to be in Red China IMHO. Shih has too many things going wrong at the same time. Trump proved the American economy is still basically strong, once it's been moved back to this country. Shih proved Red China is built on sand, as the building that made all the computer chips collapse proved.
But, yeah, once the basket in which everybody put their eggs loses its bottom the ripple effect will be something to see.
Well said.
I'm working at a vineyard learning to make wine; and I'm interested in a woman who makes bread--literally, not figuratively (although she does have a good figure). Sacraments to get through trying times.
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