Will Americans Ever Recover From This Excursion Into Unreality?

How to account for Americans being the most anxious, fearful, and stressed-out people among the supposedly advanced nations? Do we not live in the world’s greatest democratic utopia where dreams come true?

What if the dreaming part is actually driving us insane? What if we have engineered a society in which fantasy has so grotesquely over-run reality that coping with daily life is nearly impossible? What if an existence mediated by pixel screens large and small presents a virtual world more compelling than the real world and turns out to be a kind of contagious avoidance behavior — until reality is so fugitive that we can barely discern its colors and outlines beyond the screens?

You end up in a virtual world of advertising and agit-prop where manipulation is the primary driver of human activity. That is, a world where the idea of personal liberty (including any act of free thought) becomes a philosophical sick joke, whether you believe in the possibility of free will or not. You get a land full of college kids trained to think that coercion of others is the highest-and-best use of their time on earth — and that it represents “inclusion.” You get a news industry that makes its own reality, churning out narratives (i.e. constructed psychodramas) to excite numbed minds. You get politics that play out like a Deputy Dawg cartoon. You get a corporate tyranny of racketeering that herds spellbound citizens like so many sheep into chutes for shearing, not only of their money, but their autonomy, dignity, and finally their will to live.

Can a people recover from such an excursion into unreality?

A species of wishful thinking that resembles a primitive cargo cult grips the technocratic class, awaiting magical rescue remedies to extend the regime of Happy Motoring, consumerism, and suburbia that make up the crumbling armature of “normal” life in the USA. The political Right seeks to Make America Great Again, as though we might return to a 1962 heyday of industrial mass production by wishing hard enough. The Left seeks the equivalent of an extended childhood for all, lived out in a universal safe space, where all goods and services come magically free from a kindly parent-like government, and the sunny days are spent training unicorns to find rainbows. Neither is going to happen!

Are we too far gone now? Some kind of shock therapy is surely in the offing, and probably in the form of a violent financial readjustment that will alter the terms of getting and spending so drastically as to topple the matrix of rackets that masquerades as the nation’s business.

That financial shock has been coiling and coiling in the fantasyland that banking has become in the new zero interest rate regime where notions that pretend to be money get levered into new ways of destroying life on earth and the human project with it. At some cognitive level the people of this land sense what is coming and the wait for it is driving them crazy.

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And this is where civil war 2.0 will come in, because each side is completely delusional. On one side people want to go back to a now-extinct era (I'd admit I'd love that, but also admit it ain't going to happen, they days of Americana are dead and GONE)….. and on the other side we have nutcases who think everything is free, they don't understand economics, they desire policies that would literally cause hyperinflation (not to mention their lust to control us like cattle too)….. none of these delusions end well. America is DEAD. I'd say its over, head for the country side because its going to implode. I just hope the economy collapses, let the death toll tally up, and start all over again with a MUCH MORE STRICT Constitution that puts many more restrictions on government and outright outlaws central banking or any form of kikery for that matter. Foreign interventions prohibited too, unless another country starts a war with us but not before fully investigating it and a public vote (we all know 9/11 stunts are possible these days). Also term limits for politicians and outlawing lobbying needs to also be written into the Constitution at some point, that is IF we ever have a chance recovering from this at all.

I just wanted to say: topnotch post. I have nothing to add and totally agree but on this shitty board in this shitty website that has less to offer than scat on the road it's nice to see such a high quality thought provoking post. I thank you on behalf of the whole website. Keep up the good work.

We truly do live in a society.

I am not alive.
Killcen is sane.

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STOP WATCHING TV

STOP WATCHING KIKEWOOD GARBAGE

STOP USING (((SOCIAL MEDIA)))

READ MORE BOOKS. AND I DON'T MEAN HARRY FAGGOT POTTER

This is clown world now. Honk honk.

But really you guys are dumb, people have always fought for the dreams they desire not the reality we live in.

The only stressed out unhappy person I see is killcen

Hahaha! WRONG!

What makes you think I'm stressed out? I'm perfectly fine, slept well and drinking a cup of coffee right now! I'm going to be back posting some more REAL NEWS and I'm going to enjoy every second riding on top of a collapsing Empire, as if I were riding a dying bull to its death!