THIS IS THE BLACK NEXUS AGE

THIS IS THE BLACK NEXUS AGE

Even without Trump we would already have been in deep trouble.

The fundamental principles of free market capitalism would have led us here with or without him.

The main factors fueling the situation we are now in and that are going to rapidly become worse revolve around the following, the availability or scarcity of resources of every kind, the attitude of the majority of global populations to consuming and wasting, the divisive and self-interested attitude and motivation of nation states, the willingness of populations to support regime change wars and the free fall of societies into anarchy, degradation and violent competition / confrontation.

Each factor will feed on the others to produce a black nexus of negativity from which escape will be almost impossible.

Even as these factors increase the net effect on the majority of humans will be to exacerbate the situation by further individuation, acts of self-preservation and the perception of all others as enemies fighting for what they need to survive in a time of growing shortage.

We are at the start of this age, on its edge. The pandemic has foreshortened the time of relative tranquility we gauge as normality albeit the stresses and strains are already here to see. They are nothing compared to what is coming.

The chief danger is the inability or unwillingness of our elites to work together. Currently they confront each other in increasingly violent fashion, making threats, enforcing sanctions, talking over each other and seeking advantage of perceived weaknesses, spreading propaganda and in general growing wider and wider apart.

Just at the very moment unity is needed beyond all else.

Once the forces of the black nexus hit with maximum power it will be too late. Attempts to find international unity at that terminally late stage will be futile, the elites will fail to agree any fundamentally significant response and each nation will be left to sink or swim dependent on its own limited resources.

I am sure you can feel this coming. You feel it in the air. You see it on your TV screen. You detect the signs that we are on the wrong road. You perceive accurately that the elites of this world are not capable of protecting you from what’s coming, indeed they have consistently brought this moment of massive danger closer and closer over time, sometimes by their actions, others through their inaction.

You can feel the rumbling of the wheels of this black ride under you. The rollercoaster you are on has been relatively gentle to this point. Hold on tight however, you are about to be swept to places where you will scream for some control... but in vain. There will be no help once the maelstrom of forces hit.

Unless we find unity in this time of increasing division humanity has no decent future, definitely not the one the marketing people try to sell us where its safe to spend without limit in a world of stable, comfortable certainty.

The brief spell when they could be believed on that score is fast ending.

For this is the black nexus age... and a wild ride is about to begin.