{"id":25782,"date":"2023-09-30T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=25782"},"modified":"2023-09-29T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T02:50:50","slug":"the-shape-of-things-to-come-2023-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/30\/the-shape-of-things-to-come-2023-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shape of Things to Come \u2013 2023 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading an article about shoplifting<\/a> and the author said something like, the way things are going having food on open display in a grocery store may soon be too expensive to allow because of shoplifting.\u00a0 And that struck me.\u00a0 Imagine if you couldn\u2019t walk down the aisles of a supermarket and pick out your fruit and meat or even a can of beans or a box of spaghetti.\u00a0 Imagine if you couldn\u2019t go to a big box store and get some nails or screws or a saw because the store couldn\u2019t afford to leave these things on shelves.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s what they mean about a society going from high trust to low trust.\u00a0 The stores can\u2019t trust the public not to steal everything in sight.\u00a0 That got me thinking, where else has trust disappeared.?<\/p>\n

Well, off the top of my head, you can\u2019t trust that your public school isn\u2019t trying to groom your kids for homosexuality or even stranger things like trans -gender dysphoria.\u00a0 And you certainly can\u2019t trust the Republicans to be conservative.\u00a0 You can\u2019t trust anything about the government.\u00a0 You can\u2019t trust scientists to tell the truth about the climate or the drug companies with your health.\u00a0 You can\u2019t trust the tech companies with your information and you absolutely can\u2019t believe a word that the news organizations say.\u00a0 And we used to depend on the police and the courts to keep us safe from criminals but that\u2019s gone too.<\/p>\n

If you think about it, the world we knew was based on a bunch of relationships of trust that no longer exist.<\/p>\n

Based on this, I think it would make sense to try to imagine what the world will be like in a few years when all of these changes have reworked our relationships with each other and the larger institutions around us.\u00a0 The first thing that came to me was that where you lived would become increasingly important to determine how you would live.\u00a0 Currently the larger cities run by Democrats with large poor minority populations are becoming more and more like third world locales with businesses moving out and increasing rates of violence.\u00a0 It would make sense that around these disaster areas will develop concentric rings of suburban areas where the levels of crime and other dysfunction will gradually decrease as you move outward in much the same way as a topographic map records rings of decreasing elevation in circles around mountain peaks.<\/p>\n

Proximity to these danger zones will also determine things like the existence of stores selling luxury merchandise and levels of safety precautions like bars on windows and security systems in homes.\u00a0 Of course, the definition of \u201cluxury\u201d will be completely relative to the wealth of the area.\u00a0 In some places toothpaste may be a luxury item.<\/p>\n

Security problems like these may explain the real basis for the \u201cfifteen-minute city.\u201d\u00a0 What these enclaves are really designed for is excluding strangers from the area.\u00a0 The kind of surveillance that will be possible in the future will make the non-local with no business in an area stand out like a sore thumb.\u00a0 After all, if you have nothing to hide why worry if the government knows everything about you?\u00a0 So, only people that the government thinks should be somewhere will be able to get there.\u00a0 No freedom, no crime.\u00a0 Pretty slick.<\/p>\n

But out among the peasants, not so slick.\u00a0 It appears that there is an intentional destruction of the old world going on.\u00a0 People living together in free association, voluntarily following sensible rules and laws, will be overwhelmed by the encouragement of criminal behavior in dysfunctional communities that won\u2019t be constrained by police forces and the old legal system.\u00a0 The new world of the elites will be separated and insulated from these areas by diminishing transportation options, advanced electronic surveillance systems and a social credit system that will control what you can do and how you will live.<\/p>\n

This seems to be the direction things are going.\u00a0 Whether this plan will be successful in all or some places and how long it will take to implement is yet to be seen.\u00a0 But that is what seems to be happening.\u00a0 Otherwise, how do you explain what\u2019s going on in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Philadelphia?\u00a0 These cities are being made unlivable by the people in charge and so far, nothing has been done to stop the change.<\/p>\n

I hope it is within reason that some areas of the country will successfully prevent this program of sabotage from succeeding.\u00a0 If they can restore law and order to their jurisdictions, I think the existence of these oases of normalcy will eventually destabilize the new system.\u00a0 Maybe colonies from the normal areas will eventually establish themselves in the depopulated wastelands and eventually return them to civilization.\u00a0 But maybe I\u2019m being overly optimistic.<\/p>\n

Okay H.G, Wells, how\u2019s that for some extrapolation into the future?\u00a0 In your face Herbert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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