This world is full of rational people who seem paralyzed by the fact that what’s happening in the world doesn’t align with what is being said is happening. It’s like the pandemic. All the rational people saying it’s what they tell us it is and to stop being crazy and stop saying it’s a lab leak, just take the vaccine and shut up. Your insistence that they’re telling us that truth and “if that was true then…” Well news flash my studious, hardworking, did everything right guy, shits falling apart and “they” are for the most part just like you, in denial. There’s no way to keep this petro-economy going. Peak oil happened already and the Americans have extended the decline by removing all environmental protections and giving us a decade and a half of bitumen and shale oil, and now guess what? They can’t hide the shortfall from us with government subsidies and market manipulation anymore, so now they need to fuck around in Iran to fuck over their competitors and secure Venezuela and Alberta to fortify the North American continent against the chaos that will ensue as a result of fucking up China’s industrial supply chain and cutting Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia off from fuel. To understand the current situation you have to understand the neocons and the project for a new American century. They’re basically like Christian scientists from the early 20th, they think if they think positive thoughts and pray they’ll be blessed by god to continue do gods work in the world, such as going to war against Islam for the last 25 years. And within that group is a group of rational people who only care about oil profits and keeping the power that comes with controlling the energy supply. So back in the 00s when the world was waking up to peak oil and the transition movement started they suppressed that with misinformation and said “we found more” and “we developed new extraction technologies,” and they did. It’s just it’s not enough, and now there’s no mathematical way to keep this global economy going anymore. We’re not going to have a stable world until cold fusion works out. Until then it’s economic shock after economic shock, war, and global austerity. And whatever money you have in your bank and assets you hold will all either become worthless or too expensive for you to maintain. And this is where I think your shield of rationality comes in, it’s too much for you to accept. Ronald Regan tore the solar panels off the whitehouse and declared “morning in America” when I was a gross pre verbal pants shitting bundle of joy and I’ve never known the real world and neither have you. But this is a better guess than doing what you’re doing, which is taking your vaccine and perpetuating the official narrative and living in denial until you wake up one morning and all your money is all but worthless and the country you live in has collapsed, and is being run by a criminal gang who are pillaging the ruins and saying whatever they need to to keep you distracted enough to let them do it. They’d rather you die in a civil war than go to the whitehouse and hang them. So by all means, keep doing you. We’re in an irreversible downward spiral and there’s no bottom but total war. Hope you’re ready to die either violently of starvation. If you’re in any of the major cities that’s your most likely outcome, and is the direct result of all the rational choices you made. The moral and intellectual high ground is going to be a lonely place to starve. Have fun with that