I do feel people ought not to quote Solzhenitsyn quite so admiringly. He sat here in the reviled West in a place as close to physically resembling dear old Mother Russia as he could find, and went home to her sweaty embrace just as soon as ever he could, panting for Putin to restore her glories. To each his own favored means of denying freedom to others.
And--kid--there ain't no paradise nowhere. I lived at various times, for various stretches of time, in a South Asian country, as much as an insider as any outsider can ever really become, and nothing made me appreciate the founding ideals of this country as that did. My younger self was pretty appalled by what world travel had learned me.
The great challenge for Americans is to prevent any further amending and distorting of our Constitution and its actually genuinely enduring and worth-preserving values. I ain't no flagwaver; I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance in HS and never resumed, because I don't believe in any sort of performative loyalty crap about anything.
We've got a sad failed generation here, fer shure--but you're young, and you ain't failed, in your individual self, and as you've noted, this thy Substack is growing and some people even pay to read it, so all is not lost.
But perilous times are most certainly here, so--keep yer eyes open and look thrice before crossing any streets.
Fled to where? There is nowhere on the planet that is safe from globalism. And, even if one flees, it’s hard not to have one’s assets in dollars, Euros or other hard currency controlled by the globalist borg.
I’ve lived much of my life around the globe. Nowhere is safe from the globalist borg.
It boggles the mind that people seem to have forgotten (or never cared about) what Canada did to the truckers and their donators. Regardless of how you felt about that movement, it was a terrifying sneak preview of things to come. And people let it happen.
You're right Chris that we might see social credit systems linked to CBDCs. Terrible.
But it's worse than that. Our money is already electronic, the only difference with CBDCs is that they'll be deposits with the central bank. The entire population could well end up holding their money with the central bank. Who will then control lending decisions throughout the economy. Lending decisions will then become political, just like what happened with Gosbank in the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosbank
I do feel people ought not to quote Solzhenitsyn quite so admiringly. He sat here in the reviled West in a place as close to physically resembling dear old Mother Russia as he could find, and went home to her sweaty embrace just as soon as ever he could, panting for Putin to restore her glories. To each his own favored means of denying freedom to others.
And--kid--there ain't no paradise nowhere. I lived at various times, for various stretches of time, in a South Asian country, as much as an insider as any outsider can ever really become, and nothing made me appreciate the founding ideals of this country as that did. My younger self was pretty appalled by what world travel had learned me.
The great challenge for Americans is to prevent any further amending and distorting of our Constitution and its actually genuinely enduring and worth-preserving values. I ain't no flagwaver; I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance in HS and never resumed, because I don't believe in any sort of performative loyalty crap about anything.
We've got a sad failed generation here, fer shure--but you're young, and you ain't failed, in your individual self, and as you've noted, this thy Substack is growing and some people even pay to read it, so all is not lost.
But perilous times are most certainly here, so--keep yer eyes open and look thrice before crossing any streets.
“I fled.”
Fled to where? There is nowhere on the planet that is safe from globalism. And, even if one flees, it’s hard not to have one’s assets in dollars, Euros or other hard currency controlled by the globalist borg.
I’ve lived much of my life around the globe. Nowhere is safe from the globalist borg.
Truly one of the most frightening things I have ever read.
It boggles the mind that people seem to have forgotten (or never cared about) what Canada did to the truckers and their donators. Regardless of how you felt about that movement, it was a terrifying sneak preview of things to come. And people let it happen.
You're right Chris that we might see social credit systems linked to CBDCs. Terrible.
But it's worse than that. Our money is already electronic, the only difference with CBDCs is that they'll be deposits with the central bank. The entire population could well end up holding their money with the central bank. Who will then control lending decisions throughout the economy. Lending decisions will then become political, just like what happened with Gosbank in the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosbank