The Appeal of Natural Order and Simple Life

I'm Going Doomer

Once people fashion a system to live in, they're fucked. Doom might not come in a week, month, year or in a few generations, but it will come. The system takes on a life of its own and eats everything. There's no taming or controlling it--all you can do is abandon it and not participate.

I think that's happening now in the United States. Unfortunately, many of the institutions in the country are perverted and parasitic--it's inevitable as the sunrise and sunset. The only way to fight back is to opt out and not surrender your will to it. Making a choice. Using judgement is unplugging from the Matrix.

I think the weirdness of the cultural moment is manufactured and is meant to break up the unity of the United States, and its actually working. But it's only working because it follows the natural order of things. As competent and intelligent people abandon the institutions that formalize the system with laws and contracts because they're a freak show, the whole thing will collapse piece by piece.

The collapse of Rome is often attributed to outside forces, but by the time Alaric invaded the city, it had already been abandoned and left for dead.

It's pretty interesting that cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco and New York, cities that are the capitals of Corporate Consumer America turn into literal shitholes and start falling apart and become uneconomic at their very peak. It is really counterintuitive.