I eat the credit card bills. Good source of fiber.

I was hoping for a more dignified apocalypse.

But this is hardly salvation for the mob who howl and tear
apart their civilization and then puzzle at the smoke in the air
rising from the ruins and embers of a future dismembered.
The just desserts now tendered of a history not remembered.

And sulk in pain, broken and bruised (poison in the well),
For you must live with what you choose (poison in the well).

Learned words beg for attention under the din of sensation.
For the few blessed with retention, some small private elation.

the symptoms of the condition, the soul's malnutrition
or man's response to creation: violence and stagnation.

Attention slaves, attention fools: poison in the well!
Reclaim the caves, lay down your tools (poison in the well).

Faith favors false answers as sham prophets sew errant seeds.
Confusion grows as a cancer, an unthinking anarchy breeds.
The masses pray for a deluge or for the fear to dissipate,
but nothing offers them refuge or a balm to alleviate

He helped create this.

Until it hits them individually they won't even notice; most people are low-information...but MAGA is PROFOUNDLY low-information. At some point Trump blaming Biden and "wokeness" will no longer wash with SOME of them, but he could totally crash the economy and his cult will still worship him.

Food prep, binge-watching and meds are helping.

The Hispanic field workers ran circles around me. I got tennis elbow after three days and I had to sit to harvest as my lower back was killing me...and I was in relatively good shape from working on my land doing things like splitting and stacking wood every morning.

Does anyone enforce anything anymore?

They will succeed in intentionally crashing the system...the one that we all depend on for our survival...and they will replace it with nothing.

I thought Collapse would be more dignified.

I think it's just the right time in history to bring it back.

Vast swathes of the public are irredeemably stupid, basically.

They'll blame everyone but themselves and their Orange Messiah.

God, I hope so. I've been fighting the good fight since my mid-teens...forty five years...and I'm exhausted.

I suspect that we're on track to have another one.