The End of the World, is What They Want

They will never come right out and say this - but it is easy to see this is what they really want. And by they, I mean nearly everyone. Once the bad world ends, a good world will descend from heaven.

Consider the excellent essay Pushing Against the Populist Tide that tries another approach to the problem. More of a scientific one - that struggles to define the problem.

My definition is much simpler - they want to destroy everything. And they are succeeding at this.

This process was begun by the Pilgrims, the first settlers in America. Who were establishing an ideal community. Nothing less was acceptable to them.

But the power center moved south to Virginia, where people were more interested in making money - by growing tobacco, an addictive drug, that was in high demand.

These affluent people were successful in forming a National government - the United States of America. The Pilgrims were forgotten.

Then, two hundred years later, when Industrialization made life difficult for most people - they reacted against it, and decided to destroy it!

Polanyi's book The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time helped clarify my thinking on this.