© Sonsedska/istock/Getty ImagesSchrödinger's cat
That "singularity" so many blab about is not what they think it is: the merging of human intelligence with Bill Gates's Office products, leading to an orgasmic nirvana of infinite memoranda from your HR department concerning new diversity, inclusion, and equity policy. Rather, I speak of the magic moment when the necromancers of finance discover that the proverbial can they've been kicking is filled with Schrödinger's cat food... and the road they've been kicking it down actually comes to a dead end up their own highly-credentialed wazoos. Economics will never be the same hereafter.
The bond market has gone south, and that spells The End for the great game of financialization. The bond market is Moby Dick compared to the little blowfish that is the stock market. The global money system is based on bonds, which are... what? That's right: loans... promises to pay you X at some future moment. So, what happens when a daisy-chain of promises-to-pay gets broken? Or, perhaps more precisely, when all those promises lose their last shred of plausible reality? Why, the money that these broken promises are denominated in loses its essential cred. Trick question: how much is worthless money worth? (Answer: not enough to pay for a can of Schrödinger's cat food.)
Which is where all this folderol leaves a lot of ordinary people all over Western Civ (and beyond!) trying to scratch up enough increasingly worthless money to feed the family and pay the landlord. Many will never understand what happened. But they will not be any less pissed off at the result.
This is the way the world ends for the hapless phantom known as "Joe Biden" the child-sniffing ectoplasm that haunts the White House these days of late empire. Somehow, the bamboozled nation has so far passively accepted the pranks and punishments laid on them by the backstage managers behind the Figment-in-Chief.
Eight-plus percent inflation? No problemo, right? Eighty-five thousand new IRS agents on-board to drive you batshit while destroying your household and your posterity (ha!)? Half the population of South America flooding across the border? (The vibrancy! You no like?) A hundred dollar fill-up at the gas pump, and no heat for you this winter? (But... Netflix!) Drag queens to amuse and edify your children about the delirious realm of sexual pathology. All that...and how about a Russian hypersonic nuclear missile up your ass if the preceding somehow failed to move you? (Because: Russia, Russia, Russia...!)Meanwhile, a trend is manifesting in other lands. The people of, first, Sweden and now Italy are voting in "right wing" nationalist governments — the horror — sending their equivalent of our Party of Chaos to the showers. This has irked the President of the European Union, one Ursula von der Leyen, no end. She has threatened to send Italy to its room without supper for the effrontry. Of course, Madame von der Leyen's fellow Germans have already been sent to their room without so much as a kartoffelklop, plus no heat or hot showers for you, Hansel and Gretel. Embrace the suck.
You may be sure that we're in for the business here in America, too. The thermometers are trending down and Halloween won't be so much fun when the little goblins come home to a house that's the same temperature inside as the night air outside. Little Skippy's face is turning blue, and not because he went trick-or-treating as Robert the Bruce.
The aforementioned Party of Chaos, the gang that queered the last big election, is surely gearing up to run a whole lot of work-arounds for massaging the November 8 midterm vote in their direction. Nothing is beyond them. One of their avatars, the podcaster Sam Harris, said it out loud a month ago: that lying and cheating is perfectly ethical in service to the Left's being able to continue imposing its will upon all of us. Whoops! He let Schrödinger's cat out of its hypothetical sack. The punishments must continue until morale improves! (Hope you enjoyed your career Sam.)
And so it begins... as they intone in the horror movies when the contents of the family's raised ranch, chattels, children, mom, dad, the golden retriever all get sucked out of the universe via some quantum portal in the television. Today the markets, tomorrow our beloved country will be overrun by what'll look like an alien invasion of re-po men. This is the way the world ends... not with a bang... but with a physics lesson: the lonesome sound of Schrödinger's cat's meow.
About the Author:
James Howard Kunstler worked as a reporter and feature writer for numerous newspapers and as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. He turned to writing books full time and is the author The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, The Long Emergency, World Made by Hand, and at least 13 more. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, U of Virginia and other colleges as well as many professional appearances such as the AIA, the APA, and National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Reader Comments
The transfer between promise to pay and the roll out of Internet money which has no such promise but will be used to control the population, is proving a tad difficult to roll out without be so BLATANTLY obvious.
' Schrödinger's cat food' - that would make a great brand name, I wouldn't be surprised to see some company start using it.
Hansel and Gretel. Embrace to suck.
Basically, I think us - in the UK, Europe and the USA are fucked
the american bastards, are trying their best to kill us all, and thieve everything left.
it is the americans, not the jews, the catholics, nor the muslims, nor even us british
it is the evil americans
they are trying to suck us dry. steal everything we have got. rape our wives, and cook our children and our grandchildren on a spit roasting over their american fire.
I like Kunstler now.
in fact I think he is brilliant.
"Kunstler was born in New York City to Jewish parents"
I do not have a problem with that.
Possibly explains why he hasn't been assassinated yet.
I did suggest to the Russians, put Wahington DC on their hit list, but not New York, they have already hit themselves with 9/11. I think 7 July 2005 London bombings, which I completely believed at the time, were largely faked, and few if any people actually.
I did however go into a bit of a panic. I couldn't contact my wife and
the birds most certainly heard the explosions on a normal warm Thursday morning, and caused a ripple effect, which I witnessed on my computer in the spare bedroom with the window wide open
The birds had gone completely crazy like a scene from a Hitchcock Movie. They knew something had happenned. I tried to phone my wife, but they had turned all the phones off.
I expect similar to happen fairly soon, across Europe, cos their ain't going to be enough energy available, to keep the lights on, let alone the ISP's and millions of mobile phones.
So prepare for it.
Buy more books, dried and canned food, as if you were going camping, where there was no music and no one to cook and sell you food.
You can always burn the books on paper if it gets really cold, as I suspect sods law suggests it will
These Malthusiasns do not like us humans.
they are doing their best to kill us
they think we are vermin.
Tony
You can always burn the books on paper if it gets really cold, as I suspect sods law suggests it will
These Malthusiasns do not like us humans.
they are doing their best to kill us
they think we are vermin.
Tony”
Great advice….
I like/liked Dave McGowan too. They killed him w/2 to the cranium called it suicide. I guess he was over the target.
Number 1
For the USA : Hillary Diane Clinton
For The EU: Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, GCMG, PC (born 20 March 1956), is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.
USA 1 EU 0
Number 2
For The USA: Kamala Harris
For The EU (bust)
For The UK : Mary Elizabeth Truss
USA 1 UK 2
Number 3
For Russia: Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova
Russia 10 The West Nil
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The Jury produced the Verdict, Never published By The BBC
UNLAWFUL KILLING
She used to go to the Gym, right opposite where I worked just off the Kings Road, near Chelsea Football Club.
I don't know if it is true, but I have read twice today from different sources, about slavery and its origins that the word Slave comes from the word Slavs
"Present-day Slavs are classified into East Slavs (chiefly Belarusians, Russians, Rusyns, and Ukrainians), West Slavs (chiefly Czechs, Kashubians, Poles, Slovaks and Sorbs) and South Slavs (chiefly Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes).[5][6][7][8][9][10] The vast majority of Slavs are traditionally Christians. "
Started by Black Muslims, trading Beautiful White Girls.
Its probably true, even now.
The Americans vs Russia
All the girls in the Ukraine, lose their men..
they enter a war, that no one can win, except the Americans who instigated it (check Jimmy Dore show today about that - scripted by RAND)
All the slavic men end up in the mince meter ground to deaths in the cauldrons like World War 1 and they are basically brothers shooting each other directed by Americans - determined to kill us all - for their latest movie - the end of the world, populated by actors and script writers all designed to terrorise us, and make America - The Beautiful instead of The NAZI Shithole, which I suspect it is (I have not been to the USA - but my son has - as have many colleagues, friends and family - most back in The UK and Europe now).
I wish I could do art. In my painting the USA would be The Dark Turd of Our Lovely Planet Earth.
The Americans admit it themselves :"For the past decade, San Francisco's streets and sidewalks have been increasingly plagued by piles of human shit—and the poop problem is just getting worse"
Not impressed with the USA
Tony
Regarding Americans, in my view is off target. The psychopaths who have run the world into the ground are the globalists, bankers, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Military defense, Big "intelligence", etc. They don't belong to a nation or a people. They murder all nationalities, races and ethnicities "equally". They believe all humanity are animals and stupid. They believe eating children, torturing children, and drinking children's blood is a morning excursion, a day to enjoy. They are evil.
People are people everywhere. Human and inalienable rights exist. There is a creator. There is consciousness and we are waking up.