This is a strong signal that our complex civilization is simplifying in unpredictable ways, as predicted by David Korowicz. Many supply chains are broken and are getting worse, not better.Then early in 2020 I saw the Chinese panicking over a virus before anyone here was discussing it, and I went to DEFCON level 2. In hindsight I didn’t have a powerful enough imagination to predict that our leaders would loan into existence many trillions of dollars that can never possibly be repaid, to avoid having to acknowledge overshoot, and to extend and pretend business as usual a few extra years, at the expense of making our destination worse, but they did. The basic idea was to convert some retirement savings into things needed to survive and/or that might provide some joy in a harsher simpler world, and that won’t go bad, will never be cheaper, or better quality, or more available than today. I also began to methodically plan and implement some preparations for a different world that I expected would arrive soon. A new location where I’d be happy finishing my life, a simpler slower lifestyle, satisfying physical work, improved health, and thank goodness, Varki’s MORT theory to keep me sane with an explanation for the insanity all around me. Then the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) occurred and I went to DEFCON level 3.Ĭonfident that a collapse would occur within 10 years, I changed everything in my life. Now at DEFCON level 4, a realty based state of awareness, I began to think about making changes to my life, took a 6 month course on small scale farming, and did some volunteer work on a small organic farm. After seeking and failing to find a good path forward other than population reduction, I wondered what else I was in denial about, and widened my field of view to include climate change, pollution, species extinction, unsustainable debt, etc., all of which I eventually came to understand are related and fall under the umbrella of human overshoot. Then I had a stress related meltdown and while recovering stumbled on peak oil. That would be as a normal, fully in denial, culturally conforming, dopamine & status seeking, energy maximizing, member of a superorganism. I spent the first 50 years of my life at DEFCON level 5. I have my own definitions that I use for my personal life. DEFCON 1 is the maximum state of readiness and means nuclear war is imminent or has already started.DEFCON 2 is all forces ready to fight in 6 hours.DEFCON 3 is the air force ready to mobilize in 15 minutes.“I read that every day! I mean, marijuana famously leads to all kinds of violent crime – grand theft nacho, reckless engigglement, conspiracy to commit to a whole season of Planet Earth.The US military defines its Defense Readiness Condition ( DEFCON) levels as follows: “Oh yeah, a lot of times you read that,” Colbert deadpanned. It’s that they smoked a joint and beat an elderly woman over the head with a pistol. If you look at the underlying charge, you’ll see that it wasn’t just that they smoked a joint. He pointed to Vance’s comments on federal decriminalization of marijuana: “We have to be careful here not to be soft on crime, because a lot of times you’ll hear somebody thrown in prison for smoking a joint. In a recent debate, “no one made JD Vance look more out of touch than JD Vance,” said Colbert. “Those two are like a couple of puppies fighting over a teat.” “JD, if you want to do that, you’re going to have to squeeze in next to Lindsey Graham,” Colbert quipped. The host then checked in on a tight Senate race in Ohio between Tim Ryan and Republican JD Vance, the Hillbilly Elegy author who shifted from Trump critic to acolyte for his endorsement – so much so that Trump said at a rally last month, “JD is kissing my ass, he wants my support so much.” I need to know the hours of the Terminal B Wetzel’s Pretzels.” “First thing I do every morning is check my email and then go straight to. “Oh no! Not our airport websites!” Colbert deadpanned. On Monday, in retaliation for US support of Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack temporarily taking down over a dozen US airport websites. On the Late Show, Stephen Colbert recapped Putin’s latest escalation in his war in Ukraine.
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