Ignorance Is Strength

Here is a great assessment by Charles Hugh Smith:

America has lost the ability to discern the difference between the empty optimism of magical thinking and grounded-in-reality optimism which focuses on assessing the resources at hand and making tough choices about how best to maximize the value of those resources. As a general rule, this means to invest more, we must consume less.

This confusion between empty optimism and grounded optimism based on realistic assessments, tradeoffs, experimentation and adaptability manifests in one absurd fantasy after another: the U.S. has built a grand total of two nuclear reactors since 1995, but we're going to magically build hundreds in the next few years to replace hydrocarbons.

We're going to seamlessly transition without any sacrifice of comfort, convenience or cost from jet-fuel powered aircraft flying at 590 miles per hour to all-electric aircraft recharged by solar panels and wind turbines. (Never mind the panels and turbines have to be replaced every 20 years; the future is unlimited.)

And we'll all be sitting around with our virtual-reality headsets getting rich buying and selling digital "value" in the Metaverse, while robots will do all the work and money will be printed and distributed to everyone. If we need to invest in whatever systems produce the robots, fine, we'll just print another couple trillion so we can have it all: invest and consume at whatever scale we desire.

Missing in all the pipe dreams is any grasp that the real world has constraints that are becoming consequential. Systems that have reached extremes of unsustainability--hyper-globalization, hyper-financialization and hyper-self- exploitation--will unravel first and unravel fastest. This isn't doom porn, it's simply the way systems work. All systems have constraints, and the constraints of unsustainable systems become consequential in non-linear dynamics.

Source - http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/04/doom-porn-and-empty-optimism.html

And instead of helping us combat such distortions, the US government and its corporate sponsors are creating a Ministry of Truth to reinforce and expand them:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/27/deep-state-response-dept-of-homeland-security-will-establish-disinformation-board-with-obvious-agenda/

To make certain this new MiniTrue hits the ground running, the great trickster (Obama ad-Dajjal) has volunteered to help lead the way:

https://www.wnd.com/2022/04/obama-goes-full-orwell-scary-stanford-speech/

Can things get much worse? I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did, and soon. TPTB are on a roll, and all they need now is for Putin to launch a nuke or two.