Open Post

[kimberlysteele]

Woot! My first ever Open Post. Please feel free to comment on anything and everything. Thank you for not using profanity.

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[kimberlysteele]

If they want prosperity for their nation long term, they're certainly going about it the wrong way. Everyone talks about China having a great "long game" because their leaders are so infinitely patient. I'd like to take a moment to debunk that theory. The Chinese are already in catabolic collapse, which is a sophisticated term for "they're in the phase where they are cannibalizing themselves". The attempt to wreck everyone's life via COVID was an act of cannibalism: it was the nation-state equivalent of throwing a tantrum and breaking all the toys when you know you are starting to lose the game. China is overbuilt. They have squandered their resources. China is extremely coal-dependent and hell bent on completing the industrialization that was accelerated by Mao in the fifties. They want their technospheric world domination and they want it NOW, that's what this COVID thing is all about, but even if the US was willing to hand them the reins, Peak Energy would beg to differ. We're at the end of globalism, not the beginning. They can start all the world wars they want, it won't make the era of cheap & easy fossil fuels return. As for the US, the best thing we can do for ourselves is to localize our businesses as much as possible, try to get the farmer's markets going again, weatherize the living crap out of our houses (actually apartments are the most fuel-efficient arrangement), and generally remain calm.