Civil War/War with China now seems inevitable
The social contract has been broken. Trust in our political system, trust in the economy, and trust in one another has been all but eradicated. I walk down the aisles at Walmart and can sense the unease, the fear, the “Everyone is the enemy” oozing out of the pores of every person I pass. The rock upon which our reality stood has crumbled to dust. We are dying. I am losing my mind. The “the world is out to get me” area of my brain is grossly enlarged. I’m incapable of stopping bad things from happening in my life and on a societal scale. I live in a new city where fear is winning.
I am a sensitive person and would go even as far as calling myself an empath. I feel the emotions of those around me and carry them with me after they’ve gone. The fear, anger and uncertainty motivating most people’s words and actions today hit me hard. They stick with me and make my heart hurt. I am depressed and the scarcity mentality is winning in my head. My wife and I are unemployed and I fear us failing at all this. We have no skills or experience anyone wants to hire us for. We don’t want to do jobs we hate doing anymore, and the fact that we may have to makes me even more depressed. I don’t belong in this world, never gave a hoot about money or prestige or having stuff. I just want to live and do something I care about. I want to learn and write and explore and sing. I want to seek the divine, find the divine within me. I want to feel safe and loved and cared for. I don’t want to carry the weight of the world anymore. The Age of Fear is killing me.
The civil unrest pervading our society today has two possible outcomes: all-out civil war or war with China, or perhaps both. Just as the extreme poverty of the Great Depression motivated the Greatest Generation to participate in the Second World War, so too is the 2020 “pandemic”, quarantine and subsequent economic collapse preparing the Millennial Generation for the coming war with China. Maybe the Left vs. Right civil war leads into war with China. I don’t have any special knowledge or insider information on any of these things. You can look up the Xinjiang concentration camps, the forced sterilizations of ethnic minorities, the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, the stamping out of free speech within their borders and beyond. Or you can ignore those things, just as you can know about or ignore the far-left riots taking place and their clashes with local militias, the cities who defunded or abolished their police and then begged them to come back because crime got so bad, or how everyday Americans are now afraid to criticize their government, afraid of being caught in public without their face mask on. It is sickening and the fear is all-pervading. There is the
heightened sense that everything is not okay. You can feel it in the streets. Social trust is gone.
Our world is falling apart, and the next five to ten years may be very, very difficult. But I believe that there is a better world waiting on the other side. I have to believe that. As a spiritually-minded person who believes in the continuation of consciousness after the change we call death, I have to believe there is a reason for all this. I have to believe that there is a reason for all this pain, the growing pains of our new world, our new consciousness. I have to believe that this is something the universe needs us to go through. If I don’t believe that I will die.
We are the warrior generation, born to fight tyranny just as our grandfathers and grandmothers did. We need a cause and maybe this is it. Or maybe it will never be that clear-cut, that the enemy we face will never be something as easily defined as a foreign country or ideological group. Maybe we fight this enemy every day, when we choose to go on living, choose to ignore the impulse to give up. Maybe that is our World War. I don’t know, but I’ll give it a shot again tomorrow.
