Major attack or some sort of cataclysm but the truth is that we’re very brittle right now we’re always looking ahead ahead to an america that never leaves anyone behind just filming just filming oh my god but what if it turns out that the greatest threat in this age of
Catastrophe is that this idea that americans will pull together in times of crisis is dead killed by decades of treating american freedom has the freedom to get ahead at any cost during normal times it’s easy to think oh the elite the one percent they’re actually concerned about everybody’s welfare
But then in that moment of crisis when elites treat it as an opportunity for profiteering rent seeking gouging from the public purse that’s the recipe for a failed state as the u.s economy ground to a halt and millions of americans were put out of work we witnessed how vulnerable our way
Of life really is i think people are scared about two things they’re related the first is the idea that we have built a technological society whose comforts we are reliant upon whose coordination we need to sustain our current population that if you just turned off all the machines tomorrow
That kind of handmade version of our society where all the crops were brought in by hand and so on would provoke mass die-offs The story we’ve been sold is part of the other fear which is that our institutions are no longer trustworthy that they have become not truth-seeking exercises but rather auction houses in which people who are powerful and wealthy can buy a version of the truth that suits their parochial ends
In a world in which the sacklers successfully convinced the fda that opioids weren’t dangerous and kick-started an opioid epidemic that killed 200 000 americans more than died in vietnam and where the sacklers themselves became richer than the rockefellers how do you trust an institution Something like an emp attack would wipe out not just the infrastructure that we have but we would see very very quickly the distance between the importance by which the the government seeks their own survival and the survival of the american people this idea of national security would collapse almost instantaneously
But in the age of catastrophe it doesn’t really take an emp to see what happens when the lights go out And our basic institutions start to fail us we all just lived through 2020. so what happens when somebody now doesn’t have a job doesn’t have the basic kind of access to resources that we take for granted in the rich world you turn on the tap water doesn’t come out
You go to the store and there’s not enough food you press the button and there’s no electricity what happens well history tells us when people grow suddenly poorer what happens is massive waves of authoritarianism and fascism history tells us that in absolutely unsparing terms so that’s the story of weimar germany
Becoming nazi germany it’s a story of stalinist russia it’s the story of the islamic world it’s also the story of america today
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