The Failure of Global Elites
The best strategic response for ordinary people would probably be to build grassroots horizontal power networks and get out ahead of the failing elites by doing whatever will minimize the crisis ahead.
political elites
Panic is on the Agenda at Davos – But it’s too Little too Late
The solutions to this crisis will not be handed down from a mountain top to the grateful hordes: they will rely on us taking power for ourselves. Three decades after Reagan, the nine most laughable words in the English language are: “I’m from the elite and I’m here to help.”
Zero-Sum America: An Empire Headed Toward Collapse
Driven by zero-sum thinking, the rigid, inflexible, ideological thinking and obsessive need of our collective human ego to be absolutely and imperatively “right”, is rapidly driving our Nation and our American democracy toward collapse.
Dark Age America: The Senility of the Elites
The illusion of invincibility is far and away the most important asset a mature ruling elite has, because it discourages deliberate attempts at regime change from within.
Corruption and privileges
As the amount of net energy available to the society shrinks, it becomes less and less able to both maintain its infrastructure and actually do things.