The Great Crack-Up has begun

One can feel it in the air. Everyone who has been paying attention knows that it is underway.

I won't belabor you with a recap of the headlines, but anything coming out of the financial news lately is very ominous, as far as the world financial system. Everyone knows it is very susceptible to systematic collapse on a large scale. It is the inevitable mathematical consequence of the type of the debt-rigging that has been going on around the world since about 1982, when the current system was invented.

But a larger, long-term order is at threat, one that goes back before the early Eighties. More specifically we are seeing the severe loosening of the world order that was created in the late 1940's, in the wake of World War II. Much of what we assume about the world, based on the situation coming out of those years, could undergo great change in the near future.

The current world order dates from around the invention of modern television networks in the United States, which happened in about 1947. That was thus the year that modern pop culture was invented, and gradually assumed the role of the de facto religion of our society (replacing nearly all the functions of the various churches, which are a now a subculture within America).

But television is going away. The stranglehold that television has had over America, and the world, will become more apparent as the control ebbs away.

That this is happening in conjunction with the collapse of the post-1982 financial order is no accident, since it was the controlling interests of the post-1947 world order who positioned themselves to take advantage of the financial revolution (in a way that allowed them to manufacture enough money to buy out the rest of the world). So they are essentially going down together.

I agree with my friend Doug, however. What comes after will feel like living hell to some of the people who have gleaned the fat from the old system, especially in the latter days, and who are unwilling to repent. For a great many people, and most people, in fact, it is going to feel like a breath of fresh air, and a bit of liberation.