Just a little background so you guys understand my perspective. I’m Gen-x, which are your current 42-55ish year olds…I graduated from a private university in 1995 at a total cost of $40k…not too bad. I was immediately offered a job at Halliburton (with Dick Cheney as CEO) at 42k per year with guaranteed 6k annual increases basically forever. I did nothing all day as they wanted the young employees to just observe for a few years. We had free gym and cafeteria facilities, day-care…the works. The seduction of the dark-side of the corporate world is strong and I embraced it for a short time…I left after two years out of boredom…keep in mind this is pre-internet, no mobile phone times. I read the newspaper and slept all day. Anyways, I’ve had a good career and I make six figures, but frankly that just covers the bills these days when you are married with one income. And it’s become alarmingly more difficult the last few years.
These are my observations from the last 25-30 years from a master of nothing, but a curious student of everything. You guys are going to have to really blow things up to reset the tables. The US has grown incredibly divided over a very short time to the point that nothing changes except for those at the very top. This is all part of the plan from what I can tell. I blame cable news for being the non-stop megaphone and propaganda arms of the various political parties. They did not exist prior to the mid to late 80’s. We all heard the same news from the same 2 or 3 channels and it a least felt like we were all generally on the same page. Now the tribes are aligned along race and class lines, just as the elite require it to maintain the status quo. Average folks spend their time defending their positions and attempting to use government and politicians as the hammer to impose their views on others. And so we go back and forth one direction or another every 2-4 years, and things get gradually worse for everyone but those at the top. I call this the great head-fake or great distraction and it is very effective at blinding most folks into spending all their energy defending their chosen hill and attacking others. And the corporations that own the politicians quietly suck all of the regular minions dry.
We Xer’s didn’t notice in our 20’s and 30’s because for one, we didn’t have access to information like there is now. And two, you could still get by fairly well and not have to kill yourself just to survive…as I now watch many of you slowly drown.
If the divides between tribes continue, and the elite in government and corporations continue to widen and deepen the divide between you and them, the entire system will collapse or a revolution will occur. Personally I think we may have already passed the point of no return…Maybe the great reset was inevitable and it’s now time for you guys to make it happen. I’m sure there is someone out here that is more than capable of taking things from words on the page to the real world…who is it, when will it happen, and what could/would it look like? The future belongs to you guys…