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[nebris]

~The past day or so Dr. Lamb and I have been chatting about how Mike Lofgren and Matt Taibbi have been 'on the same page' regarding our present social-political-economic situation. And he created a blog post about it. It is absolutely Required Reading.

Yours truly, upping the stakes as usual, then made the following comment:

“Where I suspect Richistan shall be destroyed, at least in this country, is when fracking causes the New Madrid fault to awaken and smash the central and eastern portions of the US. Only the US Military – still the most respected organization in America - will be able to handle that. And in the aftermath, The People will want blood and I would not be surprised if a junta steps up and gives it to them. And it won't be the blood of 'socialists'.

What would be the nature of this junta? It will almost certainly wear some sort of 'Christian masque', but whether they are True Believers or True Patriots will determine what the longer outcome will be. I am not particularity hopeful regarding the latter completion, though I'm not totally despairing in that either. Professional soldiers tend toward the cynical and the pragmatic.

But, as ever, more shall be revealed....”

Meanwhile, the Japanese have been busy. [the Japanese are always busy]


FYI This is the New Madrid Fault wiki

Comments

[halialkers]

Now I'm curious what happens in this Post-Apocalyptic USA if/when the Yellowstone Caldera erupts. Not to mention if this would set off the Wabash Fault Zone as well.

[nebris]

Everyone - and I mean the global 'everyone' - takes it in the ass.

~M~

..of course you'd probably be dead by then..lol

[halialkers]

I certainly hope I'd be dead by then. ;P But seriously, after reading Dr. Lamb's approach, I'm convinced that you're right: mass democracy has failed and the result of the failure is that the system is reverting to its older default of elites who live in their own bubbles superimposed on masses who have nothing in common with them culturally. This would seem to indicate that the ultimate result of progress is the revival of an older pattern, which if anything confirms fractals as a picture of human life as so much else.