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Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. But if man is doomed to wind cotton around a spool, or dig coal, or build roads for thirty years of his life, there can be no talk of wealth. What he gives to the world is only gray and hideous things, reflecting a dull and hideous existence,–too weak to live, too cowardly to die.
What if we are reaching peak density in centralization–the total freeze on sovereignty? Then the countering forces must be equally formidable in terms of collapse and reset, by law.
The Pentagon failed its seventh financial audit in 2024, with 63% of its $4.1 trillion in assets—approximately $2.58 trillion—untracked. From 1998 to 2015, it failed to account for $21 trillion in spending.
Unhinged describes the US government today. Whether you are angered that Trump reversed himself on Epstein, or happy that you are getting a consolation prize in the “reveal” of Obama, Clinton, and Biden criminality – you are ruled by the unhinged.
There was no dramatic overthrow. No apocalyptic war. People simply withdrew their consent. They stopped building. They stopped participating. They walked away into smaller villages, the forest, on the land.
The West has no monopoly on wisdom. That skyscrapers and satellites do not prove superiority. That complexity isn’t the same as maturity.
Rich assholes and their corporations have refused their assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. They have usurped our election process and bribed our elected legislators to make them their own.
A vast country, rich enough to supply all her children with all possible comforts, and ensure well-being to all, is in the hands of a few, while the nameless millions are at the mercy of ruthless wealth gatherers, unscrupulous lawmakers, and corrupt politicians.
Growth, in its current industrial form, is a pathology. We built our entire civilization around it. We sacrificed rivers, forests, children’s futures, and our own sanity, to a logic that says more is always better.
We live in an addicted civilization. Industrialism, extraction, consumption… it’s a bender that never ends. We know it’s killing us, and still we can’t stop. That’s addiction.
You can’t fix stupid. And yet, we don’t have to consume it, cheer it, accept it, tolerate it, obey it, worship it, support it, fund it, or justify it.
The systems we live under want us fractured. Fragmented. Optimizing ourselves and mistrusting each other. They want freedom to be an illusion — something we chase, but never feel.
As lucrative as the high-tech, whizz-bang weapons industry has already been for Palantir, the future under the new Trump administration looks even brighter.