COLLAPSE IS COMING.. TIC TAC.. TIC TAC..
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/05/2015.
“When
the illusion that the Status Quo can fulfill all its promises to everybody
dies, the Status Quo starts the terminal slide to effective collapse”.
"No
real change is possible until the Status Quo can no longer fulfill its
promises, i.e. it effectively collapses".
INTRODUCTION
by Hugo Adan. Feb 5, 2015
In Charles Hugh-Smith socio-political change is based on “illusions”
determinism. He said: “If the
top 10% are doing very well, the next 10% are getting enough to sustain the
illusion that they may yet recover their former status and wealth, and the
bottom 80% have been bought off with social welfare”, if such illusions are feed
and kept alive by kleptocrats in power, there won’t be change. But,
“When the
illusion that the Status Quo can fulfill all its promises to everybody
dies, the Status Quo starts the terminal slide to effective collapse”.
Notice that here the “everybody” includes basically the top 20%. The rest 80% is
included if they have the illusion that there will be social welfare for all of
them.
So, in Hugh-Smith, that 80% have been already bought off with social welfare.
Is this “assumed illusion” consistent with reality?. Absolutely Not. I don’t think the 80% of Americans have
such illusion. Presenting them as stupid is not fair, to say the less.
The fact
is that they are demanding labor rights and HR for all, that is justice for all.
They are demanding free access to basic public-secular education & health
for all. They demand equal chances to get roof and healthy foot for all. They are
demanding to close the explosive inequality between poor & rich.
So, THE 80% soon or later will be prompt to socialism either Hugh-Smith like or not.
In short, lying is a factor, but is not a determinant factor in socio-political change. Social change do not depends on keeping illusions alive, that "Unfortunately" kleptocrats
will be fine in power if they continue promising illusions via mass-media
control. Such “determinism” is very naïve.
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Here only extracts, with one sentence -at the end- re-writing to better fit the content. The one underlined above.
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Of the many lessons we can learn from Greece's
difficult path to rejection of debt-serfdom, the most important is perhaps the
most obvious: no real change is possible until the
Status Quo can no longer fulfill its promises, i.e. it effectively collapses.
The
collapse of the Status Quo has two distinct features: the process is highly variable, and the
process affects the social classes in different ways.
The process of collapse is
neither sudden nor smooth. Things do not necessarily cease to function overnight; rather, the
decline to effective collapse operates much like energy states
in physics: systems decay and then drop to a lower energy level, where they are
stable until further decay causes the next drop to an even lower level.
Pension payments provide a ready
example. The pension
payment is reduced, and the recipient tightens his/her belt and gets by. The
next reduction (either outright or via inflation) forces drastic changes in
consumption, and subsequent reductions reduce the pension to a supplement that
cannot possibly support a retiree, much less their family. … Though the system
for issuing pensions still exists, it no longer fulfills the original purpose.
The financial Aristocracy (i.e.
the kleptocracy) in Greece avoided much of the pain of debt-serfdom. What's the point of running things if you
can't distribute the pain to others? I addressed this is Greece at the Crossroads: the Oligarchs Blew It (January
27, 2015).
The powerless classes were stripmined
first. Bamboozled into
voting for the Kleptocracy in previous elections, the powerless lower classes
felt the brunt of austerity for the simple reason the kleptocracy knew there
would be no blowback, as long as a few shreds of swag were being distributed.
This highlights the critical role
of complicity in maintaining a corrupt, venal and parasitic
kleptocracy: the
passivity and silence of recipients of social welfare are bought very cheaply,
as these classes will fear the loss of the miserable coins tossed to them.
This fear is a potent form
of financial terrorism: any resistance or protest might trigger the loss of the reduced social
welfare benefits, and so the powerless choose to remain powerless rather
than rise up and take the risk of bringing down the parasitic kleptocracy.
The statist bourgeoisie (a.k.a.
state-funded upper middle class) were the last to lose
faith in the kleptocracy, for
the simple reason that their share of the swag was sufficient to maintain the
facade of middle-class comfort.
When the kleptocracy lost a
significant percentage of this top 20%, they sealed their fate. When the state apparatchiks, institutional
functionaries, professionals, small business owners, etc. finally lose faith in
the the Status Quo, the Status Quo is doomed (though it can stage a rear-guard
action by brutally suppressing this class -see Venezuela- for an example of this doomed defense of a
failed Status Quo).
In the U.S., the top 10% are
doing very well, the next 10% are getting enough to sustain the illusion
that they may yet recover their
former status and wealth, and the bottom 80% have
been bought off with social welfare or the promise of social welfare. Some
variation of these percentages are in play in Europe, China, Japan and the
emerging economies that haven't already imploded.
When illusions from Status
Quo can’t fulfill all its promises to everybody dies, the Status Quo starts
the terminal slide to effective collapse. [modified by Hugo Adan to better fit the content]
Unfortunately [??] , no real change in
the social order or power structure can occur until the effective collapse of
the Status Quo has taken down everyone but the kleptocrats, their high-ranking apparatchiks and the
piteously delusional.
SOURCE: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-05/lesson-greece-only-collapse-makes-real-change-possible
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