The Lull Before the Civil Unrest Storm

The Lull Before the Civil Unrest Storm

Politics / Social Issues Nov 07, 2012 - 03:49 AM By: Jack_D_Douglas



Vast social revolutions and wars are often preceded by periods of giving up on reforms, despairing withdrawal from public life by the best and brightest, and even peacefulness which seems to have become the normal condition in spite of deep conflicts and growing crises beneath the surfaces of public life. Often, earlier periods of intense conflicts and crises have been overcome and resolved, so it comes to look like that is the normal in life. This lulls most people into assuming their worse fears cannot happen, but this leads them to lowering their guards against growing conflicts and crises, so small ones can more easily cascade down into massive ones. If people expected they could become vast wars or revolutions or implosions, they would take more precautions to prevent that. But when lulled in expecting the worst cannot happen, the worst than they could ever imagine often explodes suddenly.

The cataclysmic French Revolution came after many decades of attempted reforms and conflicts which people had come to think of as unending. It started with new attempts at reforms, then incidents that did not seem so important, then all of it a sudden it exploded. WWI came after so many decades of peace in Europe, in spite of imperial conflicts around the world and an arms race, that most people thought a major war was impossible. Then a single murder in the far away Balkans set in motion an explosive cascade of events that led to a cataclysmic war. The Russian Revolution was preceded by such a long "lull" encouraged by European peace and reforms by the tsar that even Lenin was near despair and was living abroad. After several years of WWI and growing poverty at home, the Russian front imploded and a small event at home triggered a revolution that started small and democratic and then exploded into one of the vastest social revolutions in history. The beginning of WWII on the crucial German-French front was so quiet for so many months after France and Britain had declared war on Germany after it invaded Poland that it was called the "Sitzen Krieg" in Germany, the sit-down war, then it exploded as Germany invaded through the Ardennes. This was repeated near the end of the war as Germany built up its forces secretly for attacking through the Ardennes again.

The American Revolution looked very unlikely until that fateful British march to Concord and Lexington to enforce gun control laws. Then it exploded. The conflicts between the North and South had been so intense for so many decades, off and on, and then resolved again and again by major compromises that the Ante-Bellum period of the 1850's seemed another replay of that scenario. Then all of a sudden there was a small incident near Charleston, moves to secession, calling up the Northern troops and an explosion of war vastly more ghastly than Americans imagined possible. War between Japan and Germany and the U.S. had been put off so many times and so long that Pearl Harbor came as quite a shock to most Americans. The 9/11 attacks on the U.S. were just as shocking all over again.

In the early years of this new century, the U.S. had used soaring paper money and paper-asset inflation to fuel a great Bubble and apparent "prosperity" over twenty years and repeated crises [1980, 1987, 1990, 2000] were ended by pumping out more paper money and inflating assets [both paper and houses after the Nasdaq Crash in 2000] that the Fed and almost all economists and Bankers and speculators declared we had entered an Age of The Great Moderation in which financial crises were impossible, as Bernanke declared with gusto. Then housing and stocks started slowly cascading down, then did so more rapidly, then one Big Bank was hit by a sudden crisis and had to be "saved" from implosion, then others followed, then suddenly one weekend Lehman imploded and the the whole top of the U.S. financial system imploded and had to be taken over by the U.S. to save it from what looked like total implosion. The Great Moderation was suddenly replaced by The Greatest Global Financial Crisis in history. Europe and the rest of the world soon followed the U.S. into growing crisis.

By pouting out vast and soaring trillions and using vast distortions of the System [such as Quantitative Easing by the Fed] to hold the System up, they managed in the past several years to stop the accelerating cascade down and have kept it bumping along the bottom in official statistics like the GDP and unemployment, while the debts and distortions and all the real crises keep growing. The apparent bump up in the official stats on GDP are an illusion, below the real rate of inflation for GDP, while real unemployment and all the other real economic crises keep growing.

We're now in a lull before a vast, revolutionary storm. The U.S. is sinking faster and faster in all the ways vital to the future of our society, from the The Great Global Economic-Financial Crisis which the U.S. produced with insane Big Bank speculations and corruption to educational decline and bureaucratic strangulation to losing imperials wars around the world to political deadlock. I'm sure any intelligent American who is honest with himself can quickly write down a long list of the crucial ways in which the U.S. is declining now. Maybe half of Americans are too ignorant about the world or lack the intelligence to see all of this Big Picture of Crisis and Decline. They are confused and mad and despairing and see no way out, but assume the Republicrat System will go on and on and are trying merely to fit in and keep or get a job with a livable wage for them and their families. Even some knowledgeable and intelligent people see what is happening but see no exit and despair and simply withdraw and hide from it all, implicitly or explicitly assuming The System will just keep getting worse and worse and never end.

But nations, like individuals and groups and companies, cannot simply drift downward faster and faster into worse and worse crises they patch up but cannot escape or reverse. We've been doing that now for decades, as France and Russia did before their vast social Revolutions, as the nations did during long decades of peaceful imperial conflicts before the utterly immense conflicts of the American Civil War, WWI and WWII. There comes a time finally when the accelerating crises and sufferings and rages become too much to bear and something, often a seemingly small event like a murder of a young man in the Balkans, or an attack by "hotheads" on a small fort near Charleston, sets off an explosive cascade of events that quickly leads to a vast social explosion.

The U.S. is now rushing downward along all vital dimensions of social life. If this continues much longer, the U.S. will simply implode and that will lead to vast social revolution or revolutions. But maybe the vast social revolution will come before implosion.

The one thing we can be sure of is that we have sunk so far so long and are now accelerating down so fast that this cannot continue long without producing an implosion or a vast social revolution.


Jack D. Douglas [send him mail] is a retired professor of sociology from the University of California at San Diego. He has published widely on all major aspects of human beings, most notably The Myth of the Welfare State.

http://www.lewrockwell.com

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Originally Posted by mamboni

The Lull Before the Civil Unrest Storm

The U.S. is now rushing downward along all vital dimensions of social life. If this continues much longer, the U.S. will simply implode and that will lead to vast social revolution or revolutions. But maybe the vast social revolution will come before implosion.

The one thing we can be sure of is that we have sunk so far so long and are now accelerating down so fast that this cannot continue long without producing an implosion or a vast social revolution.


Jack D. Douglas [send him mail] is a retired professor of sociology from the University of California at San Diego. He has published widely on all major aspects of human beings, most notably The Myth of the Welfare State.

http://www.lewrockwell.com

• © 2012 Copyright Jack D. Douglas / LewRockwell.com - All Rights Reserved
  

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"After over a decade of rumours, Sega are finally back making new hardware. For toilets. Toylets, a pee-controlled gaming system, is now available to buy for personal use.


Toylets has been doing the rounds in Japanese bars and restaurants for a year or two now, and is basically a fancy urinal with a screen above it. When you pee in it, a sensor picks up the force of your urine and the game on-screen reacts accordingly. Each mini-game (well, they’d have to be) has a different task – one has you trying to wash off graffiti with a hose, while another has you trying to blow up a woman’s skirt. With pee.

I’d love to say I’m joking here but I’m really not, and now Sega is trickling out its service to people’s homes too. You can now own your very own Toylets for 140,000 yen (£1078), with each game costing 10,000 yen (£77). While that may seem like a piddling amount to some wealthy millionaire who’s more than happy to throw their coins at Sega in some sort of golden shower, to us wee folk it’s a bit much. All we can do is lie prostate and hope for Sega to implement some sort of streaming service (sorry, no more wee jokes).

When your company is reduced to making pee games, you know urine trouble. I’ll get my coat…
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Hey Dr? You are to toechnical for me.....I would say........IS TIME TO KICK ASS.

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Hey Dr? You are to toechnical for me.....I would say........IS TIME TO KICK ASS.

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Yep, damn straight, damn straight.

Just an aside, doc: I noticed you've been standing up with some quality threads amidst the recent drama. Cheers! :D

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Just an aside, doc: I noticed you've been standing up with some quality threads amidst the recent drama. Cheers! :D

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Thank you!

This evening, my son informed me that we need more ammo, another AR and more food. I said fine, buy whatever we need, "but we got a year of food already." He said, "yeah but our neighbors don't and they'll come here. We'll need their rifles and we just have to feed them." I said, "yeah, OK, that makes sense." LOL I just bought the kid a Stihl chainsaw and a Husky gas-powered wood splitter. He informed me that we have to reorganize our wood piles and we that we only have six cords. I said, "OK, tommorrow I 'll be Igor the wood carrier/splitter. You can do the cutting and point to where you want the wood put." Then he's outside testing his new shotgun.

That's my boy.

Only a year?..........why hell Dr......me with seven or eight years and I still feel very insecured.....as a matter of fact........

OK gang......I NEED YOUR HELP IN SPENDING MONEY.

I have around $25,000 in $100.00 bills.....I don't need anything else and we know that the paper $ is going kaput.....so:

I remember that I posted this a while ago..................What should I do with it? and please, no more PM.

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Only a year?..........why hell Dr......me with seven or eight years and I still feel very insecured.....as a matter of fact........

OK gang......I NEED YOUR HELP IN SPENDING MONEY.

I have around $25,000 in $100.00 bills.....I don't need anything else and we know that the paper $ is going kaput.....so:

I remember that I posted this a while ago..................What should I do with it? and please, no more PM.

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Hold on to the $100 bills to use as toilet paper as your toilet paper will be far too valuable for said purpose.;D

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Only a year?..........why hell Dr......me with seven or eight years and I still feel very insecured.....as a matter of fact........

OK gang......I NEED YOUR HELP IN SPENDING MONEY.

I have around $25,000 in $100.00 bills.....I don't need anything else and we know that the paper $ is going kaput.....so:

I remember that I posted this a while ago..................What should I do with it? and please, no more PM.

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You could setup a food bank in your town. Or a thrief store. With your own thrief store you would get first dibs on the good stuff and you would have a ready market for your preps already in store. And with an established operation, you will be able to make money when the crapper flushes and have plenty to trade AND a trading market that is not at your compound.

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Only a year?..........why hell Dr......me with seven or eight years and I still feel very insecured.....as a matter of fact........

OK gang......I NEED YOUR HELP IN SPENDING MONEY.

I have around $25,000 in $100.00 bills.....I don't need anything else and we know that the paper $ is going kaput.....so:

I remember that I posted this a while ago..................What should I do with it? and please, no more PM.

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How about a knee replacement? I went to India a bit more than two years ago, and had a hip replacement, which costed me $7.800, with travel for me and my wife, hotel, food and lots of purchases of Indian handicrafts, I ended up spending in total about $15.000. Money well spent!

Neuro? the VA would do it for free, the Dr already told me that he is willing to do it......but first he gave a shot of Cordozone that is working great, my pain is now only a 1 .....from 1-10. I can even jog a little but I don't want to push it.

I was thinking, in what is about to come people would take dollar before silver or gold because tha's all that they know...I am saying this because they will need cash and will be selling what they have for pennies on the dollar....how about a Mercedez for $800.00?......or a like new three bedrooms two baths house for $2,500?...... have about $4,600 in the old old $100.00 bills, with no bar code, and $10, 000 in Canadian.............if it is anything like Germany the old $100.00 will retain it's original value where the new ones only 0.003 cents per.

I am counting a lot in all my loose change....have a funny feeling about them and it makes me feel secured.

This reminds me. I need to finish the extra AR lower I have and get top for it. Any thoughts for an upper? I already have a DPMS upper.

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Neuro? the VA would do it for free, the Dr already told me that he is willing to do it......but first he gave a shot of Cordozone that is working great, my pain is now only a 1 .....from 1-10. I can even jog a little but I don't want to push it.

I was thinking, in what is about to come people would take dollar before silver or gold because tha's all that they know...I am saying this because they will need cash and will be selling what they have for pennies on the dollar....how about a Mercedez for $800.00?......or a like new three bedrooms two baths house for $2,500?...... have about $4,600 in the old old $100.00 bills, with no bar code, and $10, 000 in Canadian.............if it is anything like Germany the old $100.00 will retain it's original value where the new ones only 0.003 cents per.

I am counting a lot in all my loose change....have a funny feeling about them and it makes me feel secured.

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The Cortisone reduces the inflammation that causes your pain, it works for about a month, whatever you do, don't jog, and don't have any more cortisone injections. Go and have the knee surgery, when the pain comes back. It is going to be useful to you if you can walk when the shit hits the fan soon, and you may not be able to have the surgery done at all! This advice goes for anyone that have a long term chronic knee or hip problem that would benefit from a surgery, do it now! The same if you have cataracts or dental problems, do it NOW!

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You could setup a food bank in your town.

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I second this. Ponce, set up a food bank in your town and make a difference. Your helping dozens of families is worth more than all of your other possessions combined.

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I second this. Ponce, set up a food bank in your town and make a difference. Your helping dozens of families is worth more than all of your other possessions combined.

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The City Mayor won't even talk to me about what is to come.......the first thing that I should do it get as many as the vets as I can together and talk to them about getting ready.......and about food bank, at this time we have three churches feeding people on different days but in no way will they be able to feed the people in what is to come.

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You could setup a food bank in your town. Or a thrief store. With your own thrief store you would get first dibs on the good stuff and you would have a ready market for your preps already in store. And with an established operation, you will be able to make money when the crapper flushes and have plenty to trade AND a trading market that is not at your compound.

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What a fantastic idea!

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The Cortisone reduces the inflammation that causes your pain, it works for about a month, whatever you do, don't jog, and don't have any more cortisone injections. Go and have the knee surgery, when the pain comes back. It is going to be useful to you if you can walk when the shit hits the fan soon, and you may not be able to have the surgery done at all! This advice goes for anyone that have a long term chronic knee or hip problem that would benefit from a surgery, do it now! The same if you have cataracts or dental problems, do it NOW!

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I had two meniscus tears cleaned up a while back and I was worried that SHTF was going to happen while I was hobbling around. I did everything I could to heal and get back to where I was before the mountain bike accident. It was the best money I've spent.

That's a great deal you got on the hip replacement. Your surgery cost the same as what a hospital in the US pays just for the components, and alot of the ortho docs are from India.

Well, my left shoulder was in pain for 18 years till the the VA gave me a shot and in 5 seconds it was goneeeeeeee, that was four years ago and is still gone........the pain is now 0 :) ........the Dr told me that he would give my knee three shots two months apart.......as I poste before, my right foot was squash and is 1/2 shorter than my left one and with four toes broken and frozen, I have two bones sticking from the bottom and makes me have to sand down the callous every two weeks, other wise I feel like if I am walking with rocks in my shoe......I was told that they could put a shim between the outter skin and the bones..........will see.........hahahaahah when I die and the coroner takes me apart he will have fun trying to write down all that is wrong with my bodie.

Not a bad article but almost all the examples it gives were engineered by TPTB, not by happenchance.

how about a green house there ponce

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how about a green house there ponce

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A big enough green house that allows one to grow food year round would be worth more than gold or silver, because you can not eat metal. There could be a time that all your precious metals can and would buy nothing!

I would rather be a well fed poor man than a starving rich one.

This is what happens when the Federal Government stomps all over the Constotution and treats the productive honest hardworking folk like cattle to be herded and slaughtered:

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This is what happens when the Federal Government stomps all over the Constotution and treats the productive honest hardworking folk like cattle to be herded and slaughtered:

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I'm sure you know well this secession petition is nothing but a joke...a protest vote for people sitting in front of their TV's. "we're angry damn it, and we aren't going to do a damn thing about it!...honey, turn on Fox news, the 5 is on..."
No state will ever secede in our lifetime!

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I'm sure you know well this secession petition is nothing but a joke...a protest vote for people sitting in front of their TV's. "we're angry damn it, and we aren't going to do a damn thing about it!...honey, turn on Fox news, the 5 is on..."
No state will ever secede in our lifetime!

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From the little acorn.....

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From the little acorn.....

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True
My biggest hope for the moment, is this Patraeus scandal blows up in the Obamo administration's face. Obama gets impeached and jailed.
Patraeus can destroy Obama if he has the balls to do so.

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True
My biggest hope for the moment, is this Patraeus scandal blows up in the Obamo administration's face. Obama gets impeached and jailed.
Patraeus can destroy Obama if he has the balls to do so.

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I haven't had time to research the matter well. What do you think went down at Benghazi and what were the parts played by Obama and Patraeus. Some guy on the radio claimed that Benghazi was being used by the CIA as cover to run guns into Syria to support the anti-Assad rebels. Between you, me and the lamp post, I think the rule of law is dead dead dead and 90% of the poeople don't even care if their leaders are adulters, thieves and murderers.

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I haven't had time to research the matter well. What do you think went down at Benghazi and what were the parts played by Obama and Patraeus. Some guy on the radio claimed that Benghazi was being used by the CIA as cover to run guns into Syria to support the anti-Assad rebels. Between you, me and the lamp post, I think the rule of law is dead dead dead and 90% of the poeople don't even care if their leaders are adulters, thieves and murderers.

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I think we'll know more when Petaerus is replaced. I think the Khazars are getting their ducks in a row for what comes next. As for now getting rid of any sort of opposition is essencial.

Also, is it my imagination or is Barry replacing white high level military brass with non-whites?(see Africom command)

Ze Afrika Corps must be led by an Afrikan-Amerikan!

Stalin purged his military generals just prior to WW II. All he had afterward were the Ass-Kissing Suckups to defend the USSR from Hitler.


Hatha

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Ze Afrika Corps must be led by an Afrikan-Amerikan!

Stalin purged his military generals just prior to WW II. All he had afterward were the Ass-Kissing Suckups to defend the USSR from Hitler.


Hatha

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That...and a bunch of Ruskies who could choose to fight the German's or be Order 227'd ...oh decisions, decisions.

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Also, is it my imagination or is Barry replacing white high level military brass with non-whites?(see Africom command)

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Probably imagination? Was this service member treated with special favors? http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/new...l-and-spending

Here's what I see at http://www.africom.mil/ ... Attachment 4039