Emotional Weather Forecast Warning

Today I snapped at Jessica out of the blue when she was trying to show me a funny X.com meme on her laptop.  

Never in my life have I felt such ambient emotion running through our society. Long ago I learned that often when I feeling strong emotions, the source is outside of me. I realized this is probably why I went off the rails emotionally in my freshman dorm---I was feeling the ambient anxieties of people around me. I am like a barometer of the social milieu in which I'm placed. This perspective has allowed me, to some degree, to separate my own emotions from those outside of me. 

My emotional weather forecast right now is a strong warning, like a hurricane. Emotions are raging all around the country. We have entered very choppy waters. Take care. This is necessary. We will make it through it. So much of it is healing, I believe. We let things get way out of control and this is the therapy. But it is about as stressful as anything in our lifetime.  9/11 had nothing on this feeling.

So much is not what it is appears and be wary of falling for emotions driven by events in headlines. A few select facts may change one's entire perspective.

Right now I am trying my best to stay ahead of the curve in my understanding of what appears to the sudden, almost instantaneous implosion of the "AI Boom," which was supposed to be the basis of the entire U.S. economy going forward. All of a sudden, all the AI investments are worthless because of this development last week. I'm going to be covering it on my show this week, because I think I can help my audience understand it. 

Many of us are very happy about this implosion. Basically the idea was the AI would be the next thing like the Internet and Social Media, which would inflate the wealth of Silicon Valley to new stratospheric heights while simultaneously importing lots of lots foreigners to replace all the American jobs.  All of that is ending, almost apocalyptically so. It means a lot of rich people will lose a lot of their money. The basic issue is that whatever they were planning to make trillions of dollars is now essentially free.  There is no putting the genie in the bottle. A lot of people are panicking about this right now---very wealthy people, and the people who work for them, who expected to be multi-millionaires in a year or two. All of that has gone poof almost overnight. No one knows what to do about it, and if the Great Tech Boom is over. 

It is becoming so clear to me and others that America was essentially transformed into a giant open air work camp, where we all work for a oligarchical class as peons.  We are supposed to accept this downgrade. 

America became an economic zone and almost ceased to be a nation---of a people who call this place home. Both political parties became the handmaidens of this. Republicans who believed in corporate goodness were for it (like the now reviled Vivek Ramaswamy). It made lots of money for investors and it kept wages of workers very low. The corporate overlords did not believe in nations but only in the the global investor class. The Democrats, for their part, molded themselves into even better servants of the billionaire class than Republicans. They led half the nation to supporting this grift just by promising people gender and diversity progress. It the biggest con job in history.

I spend a good chunk of my life after 2005 figuring out the story of how America had fallen as far as did even by then. I lost my mind in 2003-2004 because I saw American being destroyed that war, with the Iraq War being the final turning point of evil and decadence. My opinion of that hasn't changed at all, and I hear so many people who supported Bush back then saying the same thing as me. Listening to George W. Bush today in his inauguration address on C-SPANN was almost unbearable. How I loathe the man even today. Likewise Obama, whom I actually supported at first.  Their day is done. But what is now coming?

It will be a painful process, becoming a nation again, in any way like we used to be, even as late as 15 years ago. I don't know how it's going to happen. It may be too simple to say that I trust Trump, but that is about the truth. That's where I am. I know many people who do not trust him who also hate the Democrats. They think Trump is going to betray us and lead us right back into the hands of the globalists. I can only pray for discernment that we are not being led down a bad path.