Great empires fall when they lack the ability to maintain their own complexity.

Look at our legal code -- it is Byzantine in its complexity.

Yeah, we took a simple brilliant idea (our form of government) and fucked it all up with bad laws and an activist judiciary out of control lately.

Excessive (s)tate debt rots empires from the top down to the direct degree equal to the debt load itself.

Infinite Debt™ = Infinite Oblivion


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Zero exceptions - ever - in all of known, and as yet unknown, human history.

Last Edited by SyncAsFunk on 07/01/2020 06:42 PM

Yes, the debt, too.


All of this is unsustainable in all likelihood.

I play a game, when I'm bored, Rome: Total War, and you build your cities that you conquer, and spends tons of money building them up, sewers, aquducts, libraries, things like that.

Any way, after many years the cities rebel against you, where it hits a boiling point.

Then, the only way to win is to pull all your forces out of the city and let it burn, occasionally having to face a rebel army first, then you move back in and take over what's left and rebuild.

That s what I think is happening here, but in a carefully managed way.

Last Edited by ~Newton's Own~ on 07/01/2020 06:43 PM

Even the pennies aren't copper

Counterfeit coins = counterfeit government

Zinc may soon become a commodity.



Then no more pennies at all maybe.

Shit, the Fed says they have run out of coins.

Reset?

Re-valuation?

Get rid of the penny?

All 4 and moar.



We'll see a global dollar devaluation going into a new digital world reserve currency within the next 5 years.

It's the last rabbit in 'their' hat.

Last Edited by SyncAsFunk on 07/01/2020 06:54 PM

Always amazed at the intelligence behind your posts.

Well, of course they have plans...

The government desperately needs to adopt a centralized ERP software such as Eclipse to manage assets, and properties, cash flow, etc.
The tax system is too convoluted to work for this purpose,
They need to adopt a unified operational outlook, such as a hive mind and optimized process model flow of steps in a sequence of events.

Institute VAT.

Problem: the Dems would institute VAT and keep the outdated income tax code.

I'm not sure anything can fix the convoluted knot we're in, culturally, financially, and in any other way you can imagine.

Too the elite who play the long game, we were a one shot rifle with unerring accuracy, quickly discarded.

Every big jump in technology would rearrange the world as you knew it.

I think it may have been better when the pony express was delivering month old news.

Everyone being aware of all the news at all times hasn't helped us, It's set us back.

It would be the same.
If you would go back to those times you would only make a de-tour on the way to exactly where we are today.

Its funny, progression.

With each new step, you forget something that made you who you are, and embrace what turns you mindless.

How many people remember phone numbers now?

I'm afraid that's where we're headed.

No one want to detour.

Were we ever meant to be a democracy? I had thought the dream was to be a republic.

the sloven masses simply figured out they could vote themselves money in this system. the slow politicians soon figured out the game as well and bought their votes in this democracy.

we were a republic for what, 20 years max?

or do you think it would have come to this regardless of our current system?

Its a progression man.

You win it, you own it, you get tired of it, it falls into apathy, the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Great empires always court their own destruction.

Kind of like the 4 seasons of generations? something that takes about 80-100 years to come full circle? The conditions of the previous generation builds the character of the next ... and so on.

so where are we, about to go back to the silent generation?

The beauty is in not knowing, that's what gives it the edge of belief.

Thanks for the pin mods, I remembered this time, lol.

The Silent Generation refers to people who were born between 1925 and 1945. There are several theories as to where the label 'Silent Generation' originated. The children who grew up during this time worked very hard and kept quiet. It was commonly understood that children should be seen and not heard.

hahahahahaha, nevermind . time to pull that theory up by the roots and get rid of it

How would you define complexity? What would you do to simplify things?

Is technology bad?

Emphatic yes and rigorous head nod.

Has it helped?

It is crumbling because of outsiders who were allowed in. This started with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. No civilisation can survive alien subversion.

Almost like it was planned.

Hmmmm...

Multi racial empires disintegrate and die. It's as simple as that.