@SnowHimbo Montague Norman, 1924: “When…the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed…By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance”
@ThrillaRilla369 Let’s also talk about nearly every named fire area on the July list overlaps or lies adjacent to at least one of the following: a mineral district, a proposed or operating mine, a transportation corridor, or an Indigenous consultation dispute.
BORN IN CHAOS VS BORN IN A DREAM
On collapse, revolt, and the table that stays set
Collapse or revolt. History doesn’t offer a third option.
Every civilization that concentrated wealth past a certain threshold ended the same way. Either the floor gave out, or the people beneath it stopped holding it up. Sometimes both happened at once, and historians spent the next century arguing about which came first.
You are living inside the data point. The question is not if. The question is which form it takes, and how fast.
The Lie Hidden in the Headline
There are two numbers that describe a country’s wealth. One tells you what you get if you divide all the money in the country equally among the adults. The other tells you what the person in the dead middle of the line actually has.
The difference sounds technical. It isn’t. If Elon Musk walks into a bar, the average wealth of everyone in that bar becomes hundreds of millions of dollars. Nobody in the bar got richer. The average went up. The bartender still takes the bus home.
That is the entire mechanism. Politicians and media always reach for the first number. The average, neber the median. That is not an accident. The gap between those two numbers is the entire argument, and once you see it you cannot stop seeing it in every economic headline you will ever read. You’re welcome.
What Happened to America
The richest country on earth produced a typical adult poorer than the typical Greek.
Not the poorest American. Not the averageof a struggling county in the boonies or a hoodrat in the ghetto. The typical American adult, right in the middle of the wealthiest nation in human history sits below the typical person in a country the press spent 15years calling a lost cause and a burden to the EU.
The wealth is real. The prosperity is not. Both things are true simultaneously and understanding why is the whole point.
The top 1% of Americans hold about 31% of all wealth. The bottom half hold around 2.5%. The wealthiest nation ever to exist runs the most concentrated wealth distribution of any comparable developed economy.
America. The country that sold the world a dream of prosperity is delivering the narrowest version of that prosperity among it’s people.
In 2025, the US minted over 1200 new millionaires every single day. The country had record stock market highs, record billionaire wealth, record figures across almost every metric the financial world celebrates. 42% of Americans own no stock. The market went up for the people who already owned the market. The wealth skyrocketed. The typical person felt nothing, because the machinery that creates that wealth does not connect to where they live.
The American Dream is doing extremely well. It just stopped including you somewhere around 1989 and nobody sent a memo.
That is not incompetence because a system this consistent for this long is working exactly as designed.
How about all you goofballs start here.
It was staged.
None of it was real.
Not the gunshot.
Not the blood.
Not the “bullet hole or exploding mic hole”
It was a small concealed special effects blood pack detonated and AI effects added in real time.
Now with that in mind look at all these guys and work out who triggered the gunshot and who triggered the blood pack by remote control.
Then you’ll see it for what it was.
Completely staged and staffed by really low level crisis actors and Mormon NPCs.
And after the war, the state codes (including Virginia’s) were redesigned to created a host of public-private partnerships, i.e. “inverted fascism”:
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@RonDeSantis WWII was engineered by Anglo-American elites. The Nazi war machine was funded by Wall Street. After the war you imported all the top Nazis to the US in Operation Paperclip and supervised the starvation of millions of ordinary Germans. You must be so proud!
The brain has a specific network that only switches on when you have nothing to do, and the smartphone quietly starved it to death.
It's called the default mode network. Medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate, precuneus. It goes active within a fraction of a second after you finish a task, the moment your attention has nowhere external to point. Neuroscientists spent years wondering what it was for, because it lights up when you appear to be doing nothing.
Turns out "nothing" was the most important thing you did all day. The default mode network is where you replay autobiographical memory, model what other people are thinking, and run simulations of your own future. It's the machinery that files the day into who you are and stitches a sense of where your life is going. That work only happens in the gaps. The train window. The checkout line. The ten minutes in bed before sleep.
The waiting room was one of the last reliable gaps left. Twenty minutes with nothing to point your eyes at, so the network switched on by default and did its maintenance. The phone didn't just fill that time. It deleted the one input the network requires, which is no input.
Timothy Wilson ran the experiment in 2014. He put people in an empty room for 15 minutes with nothing but their own thoughts and a button that delivered a painful electric shock. 67% of the men shocked themselves rather than sit with their minds. One man pressed it 190 times. These were people who had said minutes earlier they'd pay money to avoid the shock.
So the loop runs like this: empty moment appears, discomfort rises, phone kills the discomfort, default mode network never boots, and the day never gets filed into a life. Do that ten thousand times and the sensation is exactly the one in the tweet. A home that feels like a waiting room, because the part of you that builds a future out of idle time hasn't been switched on in years.
The guy calling his living room a waiting room where he's waiting to die is describing a default mode network that stopped running. He's more right than he knows.
Why did the Federal Government put a child-sacrifice statue in front of the National Archives Building in the 1930s? The statue titled "Heritage" portrays a Tophet-cult hermaphrodite holding a baby to be sacrificed, whose remains will be placed in the jar for a good harvest.
As we approach our 250th anniversary, I believe it's worth noting that our government is only actually 165 years old.
The American Republic established in 1776 ended in 1861.
The Civil War cost almost a million lives: one out of every five white men of military age in the South and one out of every ten in the North. It destroyed virtually all of the wealth in the South — a 90% reduction to per capita GDP. The South would not recover economically until 1950.
But the real cost of the war wasn't economic. It was political.
The Civil War destroyed the Federalist system that our founders built to ensure the central government's power remained genuinely limited. Not limited by the goodwill of its legislators, which is no limit at all, but limited by the existence of rival sovereign States, which could restrain the central government and each other through competition.
After 1865 the only real limit to federal power was the self-restraint of the men in office. And that didn't last for long...
But, before we look at the long-term impact of America's first war of aggression, let us dispel a critical myth: that the Civil War ended slavery. Slavery was ending because of technology and economics. And it would have ended just as surely if no war had ever been fought between the States.
Britain abolished slavery, without a war, throughout its empire in 1833, freeing some 700,000 people in the West Indies alone. France abolished slavery in its colonies in 1848. Russia — the most backward great power in Europe — emancipated some twenty-three million serfs in 1861, the very year of Sumter. The Netherlands freed the slaves of Surinam and Curaçao in 1863. Across the entire industrializing world, unfree labor was abandoned within a single compressed generation. And, in no other great nation, was war required.
In America, slavery did not end because of General Grant and the boys in blue. It did not end because of a moral awakening. The cause was economic.
Chattel slavery extracts muscle power from human beings. Therefore, slavery only makes economic sense if muscle power is the binding constraint on production. Once machines had multiplied the labor output of muscle by hundreds of times, slavery was not only immoral but inefficient. In an industrial economy a slave costs more than he yields. As a result, capital flees from slavery into factories. All over the world. And even in the South.
Slavery ended everywhere at roughly the same time for the same reason: innovation and economics. It would have ended in the American South regardless of who won at Gettysburg. Even Brazil, the last holdout in the Western hemisphere, freed its 725,000 slaves with the Golden Law of 1888. No war was required: slavery was no longer productive.
With apologies to the celebrants of Juneteenth, slavery was not legally abolished in the United States until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in December 1865. The institution died, not because of the war, but because the world had entered the machine age.
The unnecessary destruction of half of our country and almost a million people wasn't the greatest tragedy of the Civil War. The greatest tragedy was the loss of Federalism and the hard-won liberty Americans won in the Revolution.
The Civil War destroyed the federal structure of the American republic, in which the several States were sovereign in their own spheres, with genuinely different legal systems, cultures, and traditions. The national government was beholden to the States, with only limited and enumerated powers.
The clearest proof of this change lies in our language. Before 1861, the United States was a plural noun. Men said the United States "are." After 1865 our country became singular. The United States "is."
The doctrine that a state could check the central government — by interposition, by nullification, in the last resort by departure — died at Appomattox, and with it the last structural brake on the power of the federal government died too.
The framers had not relied on parchment to limit the government they created. They relied on competition. So long as the States were genuinely sovereign — so long as a man oppressed in one State could remove to another, so long as the national government had to reckon with twenty or thirty rival centers of authority each jealous of its own jurisdiction — the central government could not easily grow into a Leviathan. The States were not administrative subdivisions. They were the Constitution's immune system.
What followed the Civil War was America's first empire -- in the South. And Empire's require a strong central government. Thus began a long erosion of the line between the citizen and the State, and between private institutions and public power.
Twelve years after the war, the Supreme Court considered whether a State could fix by law the prices a private grain warehouse charged its customers. The owners argued it was a taking of their property without due process — that what a man does with his own property, and what he charges for its use, is rightfully his own affair. The Court disagreed. Chief Justice Waite ruled that when private property is "affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only," and may be regulated by the government for the common good (Munn v. Illinois, 1877).
That was the end of private property in America. After all, if the national legislature may decide which property is "affected with a public interest," and may then dictate its prices and uses, there is in principle no property the government may not control.
Justice Stephen Field saw it and dissented with prophetic fury. The doctrine, he warned, "is nothing less than a bold assertion of absolute power by the State to control at its discretion the property and business of the citizen." A legislature that could fix the uses and prices of property "against the consent of the owner" could "deprive him of the property as completely as by a special act for its confiscation or destruction."
New York City's landlords are finding out the truth of this reality. They believe they own their properties. But they are about to find out otherwise, as rents will now be controlled by the mayor, who is a communist. This will spread. A communist ruling over all of America is only a matter of time. Why? Because the law provides an unlimited incentive for such power. There is nothing in America the government cannot take from you. Nothing.
The proof of the unlimited central authority was established in blood. The courts followed where the armies led. And the first American Empire — the North's conquest of the South — led to more such military adventures, which continue to this day.
In its first century, the United States heeded its founders' warnings against entangling alliances, a large standing army, and foreign military adventures. But the creation of the massive Northern army created its own momentum. Only 20 years after Reconstruction, the country clamored for another Empire and war against Spain. America became an imperial power, with possessions from the Caribbean to the far Pacific — Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines.
The consolidated nation that emerged from the Civil War was the precondition for the American Empire that emerged in 1898. Power flows to the center, and the center's reach has no natural boundary.
The Leviathan must be fed.
In 1913, every American became a direct serf to the national government: The Sixteenth Amendment gave the federal government the power to tax incomes directly. The size of a government is set, in the end, by the size of its revenues. The income tax removed the ceiling.
The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified the same year, provided for the direct election of United States senators. Under the original Constitution, senators were chosen by the state legislatures. This was the last vestige of State sovereignty. It could not be allowed to stand. The Senate stopped being the guardian of federalism.
And… then… with these Constitutional impediments finally vanquished, you saw Leviathan act to ensure its permanent dominance: it would control the money supply.
In December of 1913, Congress created the Federal Reserve System. The power over money, which the Constitution had strictly withheld from the central government, was enshrined into law. Income tax, a central bank, and the removal of the states from the Senate — all in one year.
The Revolution that began in 1861 was complete. America's Empire had begun.
Munn established that the government may dictate the use of private property. 1898 established that the consolidated nation would project power without limit beyond its borders. 1913 established the revenue, the money power, and the removal of the states from their guard post. The 1964 Civil Rights Act expanded this dictatorial power into every private transaction in America.
Government of the people, for the people, and by the people has been destroyed.
We now live in an Empire, not a Republic.
The Civil War didn't free any slaves; it enslaved all of us.
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