Interesting times - interesting in the sense of the Chinese curse. Although things seem normal: clear skies, all the sport you could possibly want on TV and a fridge full of food and beer, reality can change in a heartbeat as it did in New York on September 11, 2001.
We live with little certainty, but of the few things that we can be certain of is that improvement of the world situation is not going to happen. The best that we can hope for is that thing don't get any worse. This may seem unduly pessimistic to those with little or no understanding of the seismic forces unleashed in our world. However, the optimism rooted in this lack of understanding is simply the bliss of the ignorant to those who have taken the trouble to enlighten themselves.
The world economy is a house of cards waiting for a gust of air and a major war is an ever present danger. Just north of our own cosy little corner of the world, two superpowers, one on the rise and one in decline, grind away at each other like tectonic plates. It can all come crashing down so fast we may never even know what happened, just like the man who became a stain on a concrete step seconds after Little Boy exploded over Hiroshima.
There is perhaps a lingering feeling in Australia of the insularity we once enjoyed because of being so far away from the rest of the world. That of course was before the rest of the world was invited into Australia and before the world was globalised. Besides, we never really liked being on our own; we always felt the need for someone to protect us. Originally it was Britain, and then it was the US and now we are trying to have a two way bet with the US for military protection and China as our economic savior. It's unfortunate that unless it can be decided peacefully just whose lake the western Pacific is, these two could be at each other's throat. And where exactly would that leave us, straddling the fault line as our genius 'leaders' have positioned us? Anybody with a barbed wire canoe?
Of course that is just one possible scenario. Anybody who has seen and understood the film, The Matrix,
knows it can be seen as an allegory for the world in which we actually live - a manufactured reality built on lies, lies, propaganda and more lies. What we are allowed to see are merely shadows on the cave wall posited by Plato. The shadows seen by prisoners in the cave are caused by a fire they are prevented from seeing, projecting images of real substance controlled by the jailers or masters.
If we are not even considered worthy of being allowed to see the reality behind the matrix or what is actually causing the shadows on the cave wall, we obviously have absolutely no idea of the actual dangers we face. We can only speculate, but if our masters consider that reality must be screened off from us, our speculations must lead us to allow for possibilities evil in the extreme.
So what can we do? Realistically, not much. But that's not to say nothing. The most important thing we can do for ourselves is to increase our awareness of what is knowable. Even if you don't know what's coming if we can train ourselves to stay cognizant of the fact that something is coming. This alone will put you in a far stronger position than the sheep who believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are living in the best of all possible worlds and nothing can possibly change that. Obviously, when this world does change, the ensuing state of immobilising shock that envelopes them will steal valuable time in which to react and because what has happened was never supposed to happen they will not know how to react once the shock begins to recede.
Of all the very bad thing that can happen, sudden economic collapse is possibly the front runner, and 'sudden' is the operative word here. How often lately have we heard of several billion dollars evaporating from stock markets while you slept? Several billion here, several billion there and it starts to become serious money.
Remaining with the scenario of economic collapse, it's worth noting that our 'wonderful', 'harmonious', 'envied by the rest of the world' multiculturalism, that has worked a treat we are constantly told, has had its way greased by massive amounts of baksheesh. Twenty six years ago, Stephen Rimmer, a senior economist in the Commonwealth Public Service, estimated that multiculturalism was costing Australian tax payers the princely sum of seven billion per year, a great deal of it dished out directly in the form of grants to the multitude of outstretched ethnic hands.
What happens when the party's over. What happens in a country that has been fragmented, had its social cohesion destroyed, its social capital pissed away when the entitled ones are no longer able to be provided with which they assume to be entitled, when it becomes a free for all scrabble for remaining resources? It ain't gonna be pretty.
Again, what can we do? We look after ourselves and ours. When the tribal warfare begins we ensure we are securely anchored within our tribe. We try to think ahead. We've all seen TV news of supermarket shelves being stripped within hours of disaster striking. We need to be among the first doing the stripping. It's often impractical to store much food in our homes but we can do our best to always have on hand a good supply of canned food, rice, milk powder and so on. Similarly, having at least a couple of thousand in cash safely stashed in crafty hiding places is another wise tactic. We've all seen scenes of chaos around ATMs in Greece in the not too distant past.
Personal safety is another thing you can do for yourself. Awareness again is critically important and the first line of self defence. Wherever you are in the bad times - or any time at all for that matter - 360 degrees of awareness of surroundings is essential. Listen to your instincts, your intuition. If you have a bad feeling about continuing in a certain direction, take another route. If you don't like the look of people up ahead, cross the street to where there is safety.
The second line of self-defence is physical fitness. You may have a blackbelt stuffed in the back of your wardrobe but if you haven't trained or maintained fitness for over a year it will be useless to you. Regarding martial arts, forms like Ju Jitsu and Kung Fu make for excellent hobbies and staying fit but take years to master and a lot less time to forget. Making a lot more sense are relatively uncomplicated but still devastating forms such as Muay Thai and Krave Maga which can be learnt in as little as a few sessions with a few basic tactics easy to remember. Krav Maga was developed by the Israeli army in the early days of their Palestinian occupation when their rag-tag force had to be either trained with lightening speed or risk being wiped out. It is basically a comprehensive collection of dirty tricks, not something you need to feel especially guilty about when someone is trying to kill or rape you.
Both of these fighting arts, relying largely on kicks, are well suited to the relatively powerful lower body strength of women. Given the extreme difficulty of obtaining in Australia such handy tools as pepper spray, some reliable form of martial art is what may be the only thing standing between women and what was once considered a fate worse than death. Also given the elite's perverted, demented insistence on importing more and more rapeaholics from the Middle East, this danger will obviously increase as so graphically illustrated by the recent outrages in Cologne. Infidel women strutting about unescorted by a close male relative and with their faces (let alone legs and cleavages) showing, are simply 'uncovered meat' left out for cats as Australian 'muslim leader', Sheik Hilali so infamously put it. During the trial of the animalistic Skaf brothers who led a sexual jihad against girls selected because they were Australian - a sadistic crime wave that shocked the nation - it was their mother who added the final insult to injury: 'It is not a crime to fuck a white slut,' she screamed in the courtroom. So there you have it girls, just such a pity you can't slip a .38 into your purse as your American sisters are legally entitled to.
All in all, the future is not looking so bright you'll have to wear shades. However, no-one needs to feel helpless if he doesn't want to be. There are precautions that can be taken and preparations that can be made. We simply have to remember what we've forgotten in spite of being told repeatedly throughout history: life is struggle. In the meantime, despite our awareness of the coming bad times, we need to live every day as fully as though it were the last. You might as well get your kicks before, in the immortal words of the poetic Jim Morrison, 'the whole shit-house goes up in flames'.
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