Of Two Minds

A system that comes to depend on sythentic signaling for its “information” is doomed to Model Collapse, as its signaling has completely detached from the real world.

It’s not the price of oil per se that triggers recession, it’s the underlying vulnerabilities that have been cloaked with happy story narratives to keep the game going.

The collision of hype and euphoric hallucinations with the real world will manifest across the entire socio-economic-political-legal spectrum.

A “Pirates of the Caribbean” themed experience is planned, where the taxpayers are repeatedly robbed by a motley crew of miscreants.

Cloaking a fake “market” with artifice to maintain its asymmetrical distribution of wealth and income also cloaks its detachment from the real world.

To claim that jostling for the biggest share of federal power and largesse–in a word, greed–magically serves the common good is a convenient cover for an oligarchy masquerading as a “democracy.”