Brace for Impact
How to survive the coming times.
Regular readers know that despair is demonic. Sitting around doomsday’ing is also usually a LARP by people who are convinced they’ll be war lords once a comet hits, even though they’ve yet to find meaningful success in this world. (Also, there was two decades of wars. Talk to your bros who ran missions if anarchy and chaos is a desired situation.)
It’s also true that we are entering a new epoch. It’s not going to be very nice. On a macro level, earlier today Republicans in the Senate jointed Democrats to loot the country and forever leave the border open to drugs and human trafficking. Last night our Capitol was occupied by a foreign flag.
Dangerous stuff I’ve noticed even in nice areas.
People are on the road are crazy. A neighbor of mine told me now only cycles early in the morning as drivers regularly try running people off the road. I had noticed terrible drivers on the road and increased road rage. But there’s an adage that goes, “If you meet one asshole in a day, he’s the asshole. If you meet assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” That no longer applies. People are truly demented out there and you should really be vigilant at all times now. (More than ever.)
Status based goods = “rob me.” Wearing a Rolex or driving a Lambo in parts of the country almost guarantee you’re going to get robbed. In other parts of the world, gangs will do a drive by and chop your arm off with a machete for a watch. All trends point to that becoming more likely than the “crime spree” ending.
Severe mental illness / demonic possession. This goes back to people on the road losing it (see above). When you look into the eyes of people in public, you notice something strange going on. If you’re a secular materialist, you’ll blame substance abuse (but not marijuana, that’s totally safe and effective) and mental illness (again, not caused by high dose THC products). If you have a spiritual bent, you’ll notice the demons have come out to play again. Either way, you’ve noticed the shift. It’s not good.
Suicides from financial failures / murder-suicide. Men who won the lottery on shitcoins and a record bull market are losing their money. This means, for lost souls, an identity crisis. Watches and cars are already being sold. The more narcissistic will commit suicide as they are unable to process shame. If you’re in a bad relationship, you need to get out now. Ten time so if you’re a woman with a vain main. Narcissistic men do murder-suicides. Implosions will be happening at record levels.
Organized crime and cartels will begin carving up parts of the country. This is already happening in NYC, LA, and SF, except people are too stupid to understand it. These well-organized mafia tactics are being dismissed as random acts of a “crime ring.” The U.S. is in the early stages of a new cartel forming. Truly powerful cartels only exist with the blessing of the state.
Note how the FBI is not investigating “random crime rings,” despite these groups crossing state lines to buy and sell stolen goods using violence. (Literally the definition of RICO.) Soros DA’s and the FBI want more chaos. You can speculate as to why that is.
What you can and should do.
Bragging about success is always lame. Now you must downplay it. Tell people you went bust. Let them laugh at you behind your back as a “failure.” This isn’t about Ego anymore, your survival is at risk. Being seen as too successful is going to set you up for a kidnapping.
Study South America and other areas with super rich and super poor. As the middle class hollows out, the sex traffickers in the top 1% of 1% are going to be coming out more than ever.
Avoid becoming a high profile “conservative.” My fate is sealed when the left starts attempting to round people up for gulags. Yours need not be. Lay low. Moreover, it’s pointless to act on a national level now. Did you see the news about the omnibus and Title 42? Republicans could have stopped this and didn’t. Why would you risk being Solzhenitsyn’ed when the end result is helping to elect people who hand your country over to a hostile regime?
Continue training, and if you don’t already, start.
My 6 year old daughter takes Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and has for about 16 months. We do guard passing drills at home if she wants something. She lifts kettlebells and runs hill sprints.
If you’re an able bodied adult male, I hope you’re doing at least as much a a little kid is.
It’s not about vanity, it’s survival.
Do not despair.
We are facing a different accounting at the end of this life:
Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
It’s pointless to let this stuff get to you too much.
Yes, you need to be smart. Don’t participate in evil. “Be wise as serpents and [loving] as doves.” Harmless is a mistranslation. Now is the time to make sure your physical health is shored up. You shouldn’t look like an easy target.
Overall I remain optimistic despite all of this.
People ask me how I can reconcile being positive when negative macro trends.
Go touch grass and read a book.
Heroism has arisen in times worse than the U.S. is facing. We are a nation of cry babies, anyway, and some may say this resulting situation was summoned by us all collectively.
You prepare yourself, and then whatever happens, happens. Maybe you will become a historical figure? I have no such aspirations personally. Then again I’m not 25. If I were, I’d be seeing the coming times as a monumental opportunity.
Anyway, I’m going to take my own advice and get a leg day in.
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