System Crash
Your life depends upon a system more complex than any other, in human history. It is an astonishing feat of human ingenuity. This truly massive machine was built over the course of just two centuries – a ‘machine’ that eight billion people depend upon for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, we now get to watch it die.
It will be the biggest system crash in human history, and every English speaker has a front row seat for the greatest implosion ever seen. And, very few seem to understand any of this.
I did a system update for the server where this website is located. And, I know some of the effort that goes into the creation and maintenance of each file that allows me to communicate with you. Uncountable thousands of man-years went into the designing, creating and building the system that allows my words to reach you. Each computer. Each operating system. The Internet protocols. The fiber optic lines under the Pacific. The massive amount of education each engineer needed, to create each piece of the Internet. The electricity that needed to be generated. The fuel needed for transporting all of that. And the food needed to be grown by someone, so that we could eat while we built it.
And, it’s all about to die.
I was hoping that it would take longer to fall apart, but I also knew that there were rats in the system, chewing on all those pieces that were vital for our way of life. Bankers stealing from clients. Politicians lying to voters. Petty bureaucrats gumming up the gears. Frivolous lawsuits. Hysterical climate change. Stolen elections. Corrupted education. Shallow morality among inch-deep Christians. Dictators with too much power grabbing for even more.
That last one caught me by surprise, as it did everyone. We might have been able to limp along as the world got worse and worse, but we should have known that someone was going to roll the dice and make a big grab. I even predicted it, but I wasn’t really expecting it.
I wrote about Putin’s Great Energy Heist, last week, and everything this week confirms his intentions. In fact, his goals have become impossible to ignore – even though some persist in trying.
Putin’s attempted grab of Ukraine on February 24th, struck at the very heart of what keeps our system together – food and energy. Worse, he did it on the doorstep of Europe, a place where war was a pastime for thousands of years.
Remember that it was the threat of war that convinced the Germans to hand their sovereignty over to bureaucrats living in Belgium. The French had the biggest army in Europe, but didn’t want to see it used. The Dutch, the Italians, the Danes… they all wanted peace. So, they joined the EU.
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