Hey witnesses to SUPER late-stage empires doing themselves a mischief with their own hubristic collective narcissism and collectively paranoid overreach! What me fail to learn one miserable thing from history or my own miserable life ever? Remember how we saw that US national debt is exploding?
Now, check out this graph!
Via https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/the-role-of-goldman-sachs-in-engineering.
12 Trillion SINCE 2020 whistles Wow that bubble is going places hey! Nothing like that exorbitant privilege! Make the next generation pay!
Now, today’s Google; “The total U.S. national debt is approximately $39.41 trillion, which equates to roughly $117,000 for every U.S. citizen. [1, 2]’ Holy shit that’s bigger than the entire US economy!
How about that shit, huh? 12 trillion in 2020, 38 trillion 6 years later! Winning! Also you have that wacky wee accumulation crisis to deal with hey, whoops!
Wall St, what’s not to love. You can’t reinvest your capital because you’ve literally just about hoarded the whole of the world economy in your offshore tax havens, and there’s like no economy to reinvest in because you literally fucking have it already. 22 trillion or something is it?
What do you buy an oligarch for Christmas who has the world economy hoarded away in Panama or the Cayman Islands? A book about all the shit you can’t buy with money?
Also, what’s not to love about the wholly-owned subsidiary in Washington. You fucked everything exercising exorbitant privilege after the war, you live high on the hog at the expense of the global South, in the manner you’ve become accustomed to over the course of 500 years.
Let’s not even get started on this sorry spectacle of humping an endless-growth economy on a finite planet that, along with causality and the universe, really doesn’t feel like meeting expectations in conforming to late-stage monopoly-capital corporatism and imperialism.
Who is out of order and getting well ahead of themselves again?
Is that why we keep getting these endless witchhunts of heinous outsiders who are completely different to and unlike the moral elect of the national ingroup, and the criminal, undeserving poor, and historians researching the history of structural racism on which the United States was built. Because the big knobs running the empire into the ground because they’re too drunk to even jubilee enough tax-haven largesse back into the economy to be able to keep clocking dividends are constitutionally capable of historical responsibility? You serious? Of personal responsibility? The current head of the Washington subsidiary, the Cheeto Caesar, is a role model of mature, circumspect, mindful adult responsibility?
Again, what’s not to love about Wall St and its Washington subsidiary. Fucked things, won’t admit responsibility, then throws a group tantrum over the wheels falling off the bandwagon of the postwar boom and endless upward class mobility (no endless planet to expedite it, sorry winners). Apparently this is winning.
Once the proverbial Mr Burns and Waylon Smithers are nice and worked up into a wolf-pack fascist tantrum over the dividends party ending, they bankroll a witchhunt of everyone who notices they fucked everything. This way no one can even start working on picking up after a fossil imperialist class that does nothing but take from the world. Winning!
When you think about it though, the refusal of the global oligarchy to share wealth or power, even where it favours their own longevity, means the names of the people who fucked the world will be indelibly marked into history for all time on the day your haughty power falls. The day your power to control and manage discourse ends for good.
It also means you intend to ride out a collapse you can see coming in your doomsday bunkers, like you only care about encircling ecocide to the extent it affects you personally. Like you don’t care about anything that happens after you’re dead.
But we should still pay taxes.
Maybe we should just start thinking about disaster syndicalism, instead like we’re fated to be left holding the bag the day the bubble bursts, Wall St shits the bed, and the future is repossessed on account of all those unpaid bills of history. We all have to be responsible in paying our debts, until we become a member of the imperialist capitalist class.
