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IM SUFFERING STRESS AT THE MOMENT and the reason is I worked out the UK is collapsing. Now I don't mean I woke up and had the FEELING that the UK is collapsing. Im an author writing a book on the collapse of the USA and I sat down and did a detailed analysis of the situation the UK is in against the criterion for civilisation collapse, and the UK IS COLLAPSING. It has not reached cascading systems failure - the point of no return - but it will in the next 5 years cont... If the Labour party do not take control from the tory govt at the next election, the UK will hit cascading systems failure and that's IT. There is NO going back. That is the point where everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is BROKEN. The tory govt is dismantling the structures of the UK and ripping away the safeguards that stop capitalism self-cannibalising - RIGHT at the point they are needed most. The USA has already done this - they are doomed - there is no saving them. The UK could have avoided this fate, but instead the tory govt has ACTIVELY ACCELERATED THIS. Even with Brexit this could have been avoided, but NOT with Australian trade deals and then Brazilian and US. Not with voter suppression. Not with anti-protest laws. Not with no migrant workers. Not with £50 catch up for kids. Almost every policy they have announced will push the UK into cascading systems failure Sorry for the long post - been holding this in for 48 hours since I worked it out. What can you do? MAKE SURE LABOUR WIN or move to Scotland. ---§--- EDIT: Just cos I was asked: If you are interested I have come up with this list of collapse criterion from studying every civilisation collapse from the Bronze Age Collapse to Yugoslavia in 1992. contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y[es] Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure N[o] Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y [Northern Irelend] Excessive spending on military / arms race N Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation N If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. As you can see the UK scores 15/18. Now you have to look at the trending - are they trending toward improvement or worsening and 13 out of the 15 are worsening. They are NOT yet at the point that they can not be turned around. But the tories are working to ensure they can not be turned around. ---§--- EDIT 2: cos I have been asked: The book is called "How to Cope In A Collapsing Society" is a psychological survival guide to the collapse of western [mostly Amrican] civilisation. Anyone interested can email me on howtocopeinacollapsingsociety @ gmail . com and I will happily send them a free copy when it's published.
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@ParcelOfRogue - Im working on the book at the moment. But if you are interested I have come up with this list of collapse criterion from studying ever civilisation collapse from the Bronze Age Collapse to Yugoslavia in 1992. contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y[es] Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure N[o] Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y [Northern Irelend] Excessive spending on military / arms race N Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation N If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. As you can see the UK scores 15/18. Now you have to look at the trending - are they trending toward improvement or worsening and 13 out of the 15 are worsening.
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@ParcelOfRogue - Thank you. It not that its a LONG WAY down the path on each of these that worried me. Its the trending direction of each of them. If you look at each criterion that is a YES. They are all getting worse. Just 18 months ago this was NOT the case at all... And they certainly are not past the point they can not be recovered - unlike the USA. That is why the USA is utterly screwed. The USA CAN NOT recover its position cos every criterion is blocked from being reversed by something. I did not include trades unions as they are a modern thing and this was a 4000 year analysis. The thing that worries me the most is the govt stopping the right to protest - that effectively allows them to pass ANY law, no matter how unpopular cos you cant object. ~~If they are prepared to do the Australia trade deal that everyone hates NOW - imagine what they will do if you cant protest. I am now convinced this is a government with genuine authoritarian ambitions.
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@Drjos - TBH - the problem is the situations in both countries keep evolving and its when do you stop writing and call it a day - publish the damn thing...
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@erict.watson2460 - Yes. I class "crumbling infrastructure" as the point at which it starts to interfere with life and trade - when it starts to be a restricting factor its self. The USA has just entered this point - where some places lories are having to take 200 mile round trips cos bridges are out and have been for 10 years with no hope of a new one any time soon. I also include the sell off of infrastructure to pay running costs like a lot of cities in the US have had to do with the sewage and the parking.
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@ParcelOfRogue - why the £ recovered? Well IMO a stable bad situation is more appealing to investors than an unknown one. An uncertain one can always get worse so they bet on the downside, but a known bad is unlikely to go much lower so is ironically priced higher. Re the ban, it would certainly make ME think twice and I have been on many protests...
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@erict.watson2460 - the book is called "How to Cope In A Collapsing Society" is a psychological survival guide to the collapse of western [mostly Amrican] civilisation. Anyone interested can email me on howtocopeinacollapsingsociety @ gmail . com and I will happily send them a free copy when it's published. Its finished but I'm waiting for a slot at the proofreader, LOTS of books have been written in lockdown and they are pulled out with work - Im hoping to get it published in the next three months. It will be followed up with a more depressing book on how western civilisation and capitalism is, and always was doomed from the off. Capitalism is an unstable economic system that seeks to destroy its self, but this one is in the early stages...
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@ParcelOfRogue QUOTE: "How would you maintain the world bases and military?" I don't know. I don't have the answers. As dystopian as it sounds I think a lot of this will be looking after the individual and their family. That is where my book is coming from - it is a psychological guide to coping with collapse.
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@Jay...777 - Actually its often a lot more benign than that. One o the most common reasons is the loss of the administrative class, the people who make things work, the civil servants. They often get wiped out by angry hungry people - but they are the ones that make things WORK. The other way they get removed is by authoritarian governments who purge the civil service and replace it with yes men loyalists and both Bojo and Trump did this. As Domonic Cummings testified - this led to the inability to actually implement policy in the pandemic... But its also leading to bad trade deals and stuff...
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@ParcelOfRogue - Thank you. I have the luxury that sitting here for 10 hours a day watching videos and reading and thinking is called "research" and counts as "work" when you are an author. But I am genuinely worried. I mean deeply shitting myself worried that Bojo and his mates have very VERY bad plans for the UK. The Australian trade deal is going to set the stage for all trade deals - that will bankrupt LOTS of farms, and they are paying farmers to leave the profession. So that is going to mean LOTS of farms for sale and who is going to buy them - well Bojo's rich mates obviously... Oligarchs and corporations. But we have a climate crisis - the world will NOT tolerate shipping beef 11000 miles for much longer. So farms go bankrupt - Bojo and his mates buy up all the cheap land - 10 years time taxes on long haul food shipping go through the roof.. Who makes billions and billions and billions of £ on farms that were temporarily worthless but suddenly VERY valuable...??? This is like the highland clearences for the 21st century! There is NO REASON to do that deal. It destroys your own voting base - the farmers. So there HAS TO BE a bigger reason and a few headlines ARE NOT ENOUGH. This government are going to profit by destroying this country, this is demolition sale of the UK IMO.
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philip Burkill - Thank you. The comments I have received here give me great hope for the book. Although the first book is light on the explanation of the horror and heavy on the "how to cope with it". But I am starting to outline a plan for a 500 - 600 page book just stripping bare the fantasy that is capitalism and the west. The fact that capitalism wants to devour its self and will always work towards that goal.
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- its not run away like the USA though is it???
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@erict.watson2460 - the UK didnt sell them off in order to raise cash to meet running costs though - it sold them off to make money for shareholders. I know Im splitting hairs but you have to make a decision. On infrastructure, I think you could put it in either camp yes or no. Its certainly borderline that is for sure.
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@ParcelOfRogue - Weirdly - and for reasons, I don't understand. Picking unwinnable small scale wars is a feature of the end of empire. They seem to lose confidence but try and bolster it by having a scrap in say - Afganistan. That seems a popular one.
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@erict.watson2460 - its a kind of half way house. Its not full nationalisation but its likely better than the current situation. My worry is that this government at throwing out HUGE populist things like lots of furlough money, lots of green new deal type money, lots of really progressive left wing stuff and at the same time dismantling democracy. My personal opinion is it is all "bread and circuses" to keep people happy whilst they become dictators with no real elections...
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@erict.watson2460 - QUOTE "other than with the help of a fatigued nation with a lack of critical assessment of the likely result" EXACTLY. IMO the USA has absolutely zero chance of recovering, its down hill from here. The UK is defiantly NOT a guaranteed collapse - but its shocking to see that the tories actually seem to be working to make it happen. I genuinely wonder if they are hoping to profit through disaster capitalism. The Australian trade deal is INSANITY as it sets the standard for all future deals... Are they just looking to sell off all the farm land to corporations and billionaires...??? You genuinely have to think this might be the plan.
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@ParcelOfRogue - the other thing they do is create a toxic work environment where the decent and dignified resign [Prity Patel is an example of this]. This leaves the malleable and the weak. Its all about removing people who can point out you are incompetent and corrupt, but that inevitably removes the capable and honourable. As Bojo said "I like chaos - it means people have to come to me to find out whats going on" These people know deep down they are incompetent, they know they should never be anywhere near power. And they are terrified of experts and capable people so they do everything to remove the threat, the capable people. That is incredibly bad when a pandemic hits for example.
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@Jay...777 - AH yes - I could get Phil to review it maybe???
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