The Great Wave Crashes

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  • @WhatifAltHist
    @WhatifAltHist  หลายเดือนก่อน +96

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    • @dylanmulvaney9912
      @dylanmulvaney9912 หลายเดือนก่อน

      brother. I'm near the end of the rode we all are. Trump is just the first step to a slightly better world, his rule will end, then what? his VP? Vivek? we don't have much of a pick for leaders constitutionally after trump's term. trump might be a delay for some type of war or depression.
      if trump doesn't deliver a 1/4 of his promises the right might crack. most likely some from of populist national type (MAGA).
      I'm both scared and hopeful. i want the far future better. but the near future will be a crescendo of a era at a end. the industrious age ended. then what. more prosperity? maybe.
      May God guide us well.

    • @PsychomikeIV
      @PsychomikeIV หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      wow you went on a date, wow you won a fight,. amazing !!

    • @andoriannationalist3738
      @andoriannationalist3738 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Poor whites are going homeless left and right, HR won’t hire them. The W elites won’t fair well after the white masses are all consumed.

    • @siamihari8717
      @siamihari8717 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good Sir, I must say I am able to relate somewhat.
      To the 'waiting-room', to the innate knowing that something everything is wrong.
      I, personally. Raged against it, I acted non-compliantly in school.
      From elementary up, because they wanted to litterally control me, 'as I saw it'.
      And so I went against the school, and it brough down its boot.
      Hard, again and again.
      Pyriah is an understatement.
      It no different then the social outcasting done publicly.
      'That one is an open target', to whomever, just dont say that outloud.
      But, dispuite all the school did to dive me mad, and make me hostile to everyone.
      I won. I can claim, that.
      I bested that system.
      For in my Non-Compliance, I got to graduate early. Because their beurocracy sqrewed up and gave me a way to break it.
      With a computer program Called Odysee.
      I learned something 'cool' way back in the mid 2010s. The school system takes One Buisness day to cycle the paperwork to move a highschooler from.
      Sophmore->Junior
      and
      Junior->Senior
      see it is a rather simple affair, so long as all the boxes can be checked.

    • @mastertroll1780
      @mastertroll1780 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      My wager is the crisis of 2020 his the US in the late 2020's or early 2030's when social security runs out or is about to run out of money. The Federal government has thus far been able pretend that everything's fine, but social security is the sacred cow of the most important voting block in the US. The uni-party has to make an impossible decision between allowing the benefit cuts to go ahead (loosing face in the process), jacking up taxes on an overburdened population (mass political descent), or going back to inflating to inflationary money printing (also mass political descent). Something will have to change by that point.

  • @JohnW-sy1eo
    @JohnW-sy1eo หลายเดือนก่อน +2105

    "My mom was obsessed with macropolitical ramifications of financial systems..."
    Oh.
    Mine was obsessed with The Bachelorette.

    • @davidfereira5354
      @davidfereira5354 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      My mother is a rural peadant girl from the Madeiran back water.
      But she likes tarot cards back when I was a child.
      But yes modern mothers when we were children. A type of mother liked the Bachelorette.

    • @daviddickey9832
      @daviddickey9832 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      😂

    • @georgeburdell517
      @georgeburdell517 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      Mine was obsessed with buying me clothes that I didn't want.

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Mine is currently obsessed with plants

    • @benduvall6169
      @benduvall6169 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

      Mine was obsessed with True Crime docuseries while constantly gaslighting and manipulating her kids comparing and denigrating them as terrible people just like their fathers.

  • @paneraemployee12
    @paneraemployee12 หลายเดือนก่อน +821

    Man… every time I see one of these videos this verse comes to mind. “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
    ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6‬:‭34‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

    • @dolanduk7946
      @dolanduk7946 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Okay thats cool and stuff but when shtf happens im not sharing anything with you except for maybe a few ounces of copper jacketed lead

    • @madmanvarietyshow9605
      @madmanvarietyshow9605 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      To add on, Philipians 4:6
      "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."
      We'll get through this brother, take heart. For God is with us as long as we hold fast.

    • @DarenMiller-qj7bu
      @DarenMiller-qj7bu หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      "I forgot my pen. Shit the bed again."
      -Maynard James Keenan

    • @lennard5393
      @lennard5393 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So well the devil as god are in all the choices

    • @rwdyeriii
      @rwdyeriii หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I think about these scriptures too and then the thought crosses my mind of, "Eat, Drink, And Be Merry! Tomorrow, we die!"

  • @a.zacharywebb7929
    @a.zacharywebb7929 หลายเดือนก่อน +1412

    You know it's bad when WIAH posts a video called "The Great Wave Crashes" a few days before the election.

    • @herpesisnice1443
      @herpesisnice1443 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

      "Bad Moon Rising" starts playing in the background

    • @justadildeau
      @justadildeau หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@herpesisnice1443 the devil came down to Georgia

    • @Lysander_Spooner
      @Lysander_Spooner หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      "The End" by The Doors

    • @sspectre8217
      @sspectre8217 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      We all know things could go south very easily and in crazy ways this election cicle. Both parties haven't been able to reach common ground in years

    • @KingSquash16081
      @KingSquash16081 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@justadildeau "Drive" by Incubus, "whatever tomoro brings I'll be there... with open arms and open eyes..."

  • @urphakeandgey6308
    @urphakeandgey6308 หลายเดือนก่อน +285

    I love when you point out how school kids are basically expected to work 13 hours a day. It's a point I try to make, but it's so normalized nobody cares. You're right. Kids have roughly 7 hours of school, a couple hours of homework/studying, and then a few more hours for extracurriculars and/or sports.
    I was only in high school band and we put almost 20+ hours a week into practice before and after school. In terms of just sheer hours worked, no adult even comes close.

    • @dolanduk7946
      @dolanduk7946 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      13 hours a day from K - 12.... then they get out having no practical skill, zero financial literacy and are barely worth minimum wage....
      Nothing to look into there, itl end up fine, probably

    • @SquareNoggin
      @SquareNoggin หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      I absolutely agree that we suck up way too much of the kids' time in school - and most of their time in school is spent doing nonsense. Not the least just shuffling around from one class to another - which they're only in for an hour or so, hardly enough time to really dive into anything.
      But you're exagerrating a bit... Who actually did hours of homework every day? A few kids did maybe, but the laaaarge majority of us didn't. I work way more hours as a young man than I ever did in school. But maybe working long hours in school is what gets you the sort of career where you don't work long hours? I dunno.
      But there's no doubt that modern schooling is an abomimation. Sadly these days if the kids aren't in school they'll be on ipads or playing video games - but 100 years ago, when the moms were all at home in their communities during the day, kids spent a lot more time out in their communities. We don't even have communities anymore in the way that existed a century ago.

    • @Sara-x6t3s
      @Sara-x6t3s หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Get real😂 Public school in the US is an absolute joke! Now a good college prep school or Catholic school is top notch, providing an actual educational experience, but public schools are an utter joke. I worked about 25-30 hours a week after transferring from a Catholic school to public school in my junior year of HS. Impo school kids don't work anywhere near hard enough. Everyone should work, life is work.

    • @vikker8274
      @vikker8274 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Look at your list …. Working for no pay. It’s training for that to be normal. Because I had a paying job after school, I had no time for all that overly scheduled extracurricular stuff.

    • @victorygarden556
      @victorygarden556 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sara-x6t3s my parents said the same but they don’t understand I choose different types of work that don’t feel like work. You’re making your child live like a slave because you’re lazy and entitled.

  • @alecandparker
    @alecandparker หลายเดือนก่อน +159

    “My mom was obsessed with the macro-political ramifications of financial systems…” makes sense that you became the man you did

    • @chrislong6541
      @chrislong6541 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Heard this and was like sounds like me though I don't get it from anywhere my family doesn't pay attention to that shit even though it's literally what runs our lives and can help predict the future that's WHY I study the past so much and watch all his videos he is spot on and matches how I see the world... I can only pray we are wrong about a thousand deaths by April although if trump loses or even wins and nothing changes I think it's much needed sadly. People have forgotten we only have rights and representation as long as we are willing to fight for it. Our freedom is backed by our willingness to defend it with violence. To many people unwilling to.

    • @JUNKYJESUS89
      @JUNKYJESUS89 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cell phones become an exact And unveiled window Into the erie remains of all our Souls
      Truly your's, junky JESUS
      You
      Are
      All
      Loved

    • @JUNKYJESUS89
      @JUNKYJESUS89 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's frustrating how people in the first world are so consumed by their indulgences and constantly worry about their waistlines or anything else they could think of that day. However, they often hesitate to give back, seeing it too close to communism. It's absurd-you're just being misled.
      Just making one change to Policy doesn't make someone a communist or a socialist.
      Psychological reservation: Modern life only confuses and corrupts success.
      Immature masculinity has completely distorted the meaning of the word "man" today.
      This is my crazy true story
      I even got my wife of 13 years back after 2.5 years of being disconnected on the other side of the country.
      30 years old, Mach 2020 I turned my back on my life to fix up my mom's house so she had a house to get old and then die in. Lol, when I was done, I was supposed to do the most foolish thing by ending myself Spoilers; I found “Subtle Art not giving a fuck”. I considered myself illiterate at 33 years old. The damn book changed my life forever, And even after all I've said, this is just the tip of my iceberg The world is Doomed as Titanic
      That's How I'm living... In living color
      Are you alive?
      So above so below as within as without. So above, so below as within as without. So above so below, as within as without.
      That I had somebody's Always guiding me the way through my journey. They are all Personal people that I Cared more for than my sense of self, pride, ego, power, and money. These people are incorruptible, so I can only give them honour with my story: people who have passed on. The only reason I've been able to be here today is if I Stand on the mountain Screaming my Resonateing Chant honouring their stories…. even the devil and god Would team up just help me at this point because all The unused opportunities in the modern world only go down the drain every second sad Waste of skin gone with the wind

    • @AzureTheWolf-l6u
      @AzureTheWolf-l6u 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@chrislong6541well he did win, and things will change. If they didn’t, why would the entire establishment be leaving the country and losing their minds?

  • @darrylbonner7208
    @darrylbonner7208 หลายเดือนก่อน +712

    Honestly, ever since my second year of college, I feel as if I’m in a period of my life where I’m waiting for something to happen. I’m glad, relieved, and a bit scared to see I’m not the only one. Best of Luck everybody and may God be with you.

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      All working class men know in their soul a revolution is coming. It's terrifying.

    • @bananas9809
      @bananas9809 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      And also with you my man! Great comment

    • @ryanhoekstra6000
      @ryanhoekstra6000 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Thanks, God bless you. We're all riding this wave together

    • @existextinct
      @existextinct หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      It never does. But same.

    • @lucarapp3184
      @lucarapp3184 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You aren't alone brother

  • @Blizznor
    @Blizznor หลายเดือนก่อน +1503

    Rudyard breaking it off with Sydney Sweeney is the best thing he could do, glad he can focus on youtube now

  • @jonlannister345
    @jonlannister345 หลายเดือนก่อน +761

    Living in a British town which has doubled population in 20 years and now the English are a minority and most people I know who were actually born here are stuck in homelessness or borderline homelessness, I can imagine what it will look like is that the ethnic enclaves on each street will fight all the rest. The locals, who are disarmed, demoralised, childless and oppressed while being told they hold all the power and blamed for everything, will be wiped out, while ancient cultural grievances from the rest of the world will play out on the streets in each town.

    • @drunvert
      @drunvert หลายเดือนก่อน +124

      UK is toast

    • @HANUMAN7454
      @HANUMAN7454 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

      Man that is grim.

    • @VestigeFinder
      @VestigeFinder หลายเดือนก่อน +166

      Don’t be so demoralized. Europeans have the greatest potential of any people on earth, when they band together they can move mountains

    • @verscarii3238
      @verscarii3238 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

      But Diversity is our strength, just like it was the strength of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, places reknowned for their stability and social cohesion.

    • @verscarii3238
      @verscarii3238 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@VestigeFinder I'm not so sure anymore, no group has been as consistency pathetic and dissappointing as the modern Western European.

  • @deanchur
    @deanchur หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    "When you have more workers competing for the same job, wages get worse".
    I'd like to say it's amazing how big the overlap is between people complaining about wage stagnation and people who think open borders are a good idea (aka people holding two completely conflicting ideals and not willing to give up one of them when made aware of it), but very little surprises me at this point.

    • @LuisFlores-mc2tc
      @LuisFlores-mc2tc หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Modern day education has failed

    • @mirceazaharia2094
      @mirceazaharia2094 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Orwellian doublethink.

    • @r2dad282
      @r2dad282 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd like to tell the 1.5B people of china that Americans have done what we could to bring 500M of them out of poverty, by "giving them" 100M of the jobs that were here in the USA then shipped there. 25 years, the prime of my life, were spent having to do something other than manufacturing because all the MBAs ahead of me outsourced those manufacturing jobs, banked that margin and retired early. We were supposed to be happy with service jobs that paid 1/3 less and nobody cared. Still, nobody cares.

    • @albertalu4583
      @albertalu4583 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Because bottom of the barrel individuals use foreigners to subvert the hierarchy and gain power.

  • @lawrencebrown4150
    @lawrencebrown4150 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Its felt like for those of us who were 18-22 in 2020, everything fell apart right when life was actually supposed to start for us but im happy im not the only one who feels this way

    • @DeltaDanner
      @DeltaDanner หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Was working a good job, saving up for college, and was going to start dating again since my life was more stable and I could meet new people in school. Then I lost my job, everyone was terrified to leave the house, and I had a year of unemployment before I could go to school and the only option was online. I feel like I missed out on a pinnacle year of my life and I’ve spent the last four years in some kind of limbo.

    • @matthewconnor5483
      @matthewconnor5483 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Similar thing happen to those of use that became adults as things fell apart in 2008. I was in the army at the time so I dodged the labor market imploding unlike post people I graduated with. So many of them ended up stunted.

    • @TheMuclusla
      @TheMuclusla หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yep, I graduated college in 2020. Also caught a DV charge at the end of that year because my girlfriend at the time called the police because I was acting suicidally (was all sorts of messed up mentally at the time, on SSRIs, anti-anxieties, smoking weed all the time, was black-out drunk during this incident -- I've since cleaned up massively). The cops decided that me behaving suicidally was actually me "menacing" her and arrested and charged me -- despite the fact that she had no desire for that to happen and was truly just concerned for my well-being. Never laid a finger on her, there was no physical altercation whatsoever. Because I'd never offended before (or after for that matter) they gave me a plea deal that had my criminal record sealed after 1.5 years of multiple sessions of court-ordered therapy per week and two random drug tests a month (they tested for everything including alcohol). The worst part of it was the group therapy, we were all treated like wife-beaters even though to my knowledge every single other man there was like me -- charged with non-violent crimes of a domestic nature. If you were actually physically violent, you didn't get the parole and therapy, you got prison (and rightfully so!). I remember there were quite a few older men there that clearly got accused by spiteful (ex) wives as a way to get a leg up in divorce proceedings. In fact, there was only one guy there out of like 8 or 9 that actually belonged, he poured some kind of mixture into a girl's car's gas tank to try to destroy the car's engine as revenge for something she did -- can't remember what. The domestic violence - industrial complex is real. Never, EVER, drink heavily with a woman. Doesn't matter how long you've known her or how much you trust her. All it takes is for her to make ONE call to ruin your life. It doesn't matter if there's no evidence of any wrong-doing on your part, all they need is her word. And they barely even need that, because as was in my case, they will happily "interpret" what she says to them and after that she won't be able to stop them, as they'll just claim that she's only afraid of you retaliating against her. So just keep that in mind, that any woman that you have ANY sort of relationship or friendship with beyond strangers can destroy your life at any time, any place by pressing 4 buttons and saying a couple of sentences.
      Anyways, that was a good splash of cold water in my face during the first year of my life in the "real world" after finishing school. Covid and dealing with the case at the same time. I'm just a lucky guy, I guess.

    • @spyrofrost9158
      @spyrofrost9158 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was 22 in 2020 and I feel that. I have a full time job I can walk to but the only thing I can afford is helping my parents keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

  • @monk_e4072
    @monk_e4072 หลายเดือนก่อน +320

    "The world is changed."
    "I feel it in the water."
    "I feel it in the earth."
    " I smell it in the air."

    • @olliefoxx7165
      @olliefoxx7165 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      "I hear it whispered in in quite places"
      "I hear it shouted in crowds"
      "I see it on the face of the waitress"
      "I see it etched on the face of the homeless veteran"
      "The dull eyes of the politicians and the closed ears of the bankers- see and hear nothing at all"

    • @AndrwsAnimatics
      @AndrwsAnimatics หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      "Winds in the east, mist coming in."
      "Like somethin' is brewin' and bout to begin."
      "Can't put me finger on what lies in store."
      "But I fear what's to happen all happened before."

    • @dolanduk7946
      @dolanduk7946 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      AND MY AXE!!!!

    • @michaelmiller6050
      @michaelmiller6050 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I feel it in my an*s.

    • @somedandy7694
      @somedandy7694 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      "Rumor of a shadow in the east; whispers of a nameless fear"

  • @jaywarzynski4111
    @jaywarzynski4111 หลายเดือนก่อน +236

    the scariest part and the most vindicating evidence towards this notion: is that WE all feel it! damn near everyone i talk too, acknowledges this ominous gut feeling that shit is about to hit the fan....
    best start saying your prayers now, boys, only God can save us from ourselves....

    • @makingastardestroyer3066
      @makingastardestroyer3066 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      I feel it too, and I felt it all my life. And I firmly believe that we are right.
      However... We should look at this with just a pinch of salt. Because in history, it was constantly this "impending doom" idea around. I think that this is part of our nature. We feel that our lifestyle (civilization) is a divertion from the normal way of the animals, and we feel guilt for it.

    • @kollow
      @kollow หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      If you were old enough to remember the pre 911 days, you could tell a couple of years afterward that everything had changed. It's only gotten worse over the years. My kids grew up in this new world. I can tell them what it was like to grow up in the 80s and 90s, and they have a look their faces like they missed out on the last good times.

    • @duncanharrell5009
      @duncanharrell5009 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @kollow Same. I’m a VERY late 90s kid and only recall at best early 2000s. Man even after 9/11 things were better and freer… I watch old shows and movies and refuse to believe the 1950s and 1960s were real. Men wearing suits and women fine dresses to Disney World? You could leave a loaded weapon next to you at a park bench without fear of it being used against you or being arrested for it? America making it’s own stuff?

    • @WillMartinWrites
      @WillMartinWrites หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You Hope Too Much.

    • @KJ-in4gz
      @KJ-in4gz หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Talk is cheap. Bullets are not.

  • @NotDanValentine
    @NotDanValentine หลายเดือนก่อน +361

    Rudyard claims the "elites" want free markets, but what we see is the opposite. Governments and powerful corporations/banks want more control, and for markets to be dominated by them without freedom to participate in alternative systems.
    The elites aren't libertarians, Rudyard

    • @Pasta_watcher
      @Pasta_watcher หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      But they do want free markets in the sense of international trade

    • @sdrc92126
      @sdrc92126 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The "elites" want socialism. Because socialist control means government control. And when the "elites" control the government, socialist control mean elite control.

    • @WillMartinWrites
      @WillMartinWrites หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Notice how he always just calls them Elites but never says Jews?
      Rudy is a Doolittle Cultist. He's a wannabe elite. He's like Richard Hanania and Dicky Spencer in that he wants the establishment to like him so bad, but only on his terms.

    • @PodreyJenkin138
      @PodreyJenkin138 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

      They want the illusion of it

    • @sdrc92126
      @sdrc92126 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@PodreyJenkin138 why was i ensored?

  • @yinsound
    @yinsound หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    A few of us are older men, Rudyard. Frankly, one of the few things that brings me comfort in this time of impending doom is knowing that there are at least some extremely wise, strong young men who may survive the next 30 years and even have children. It gives me hope.

    • @ancientflames
      @ancientflames หลายเดือนก่อน

      The terminally online autistic kid with a lisp and is your idea of strong?

    • @Samuil-iq6eb
      @Samuil-iq6eb หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      *bring, restarted.😂

    • @lacie5522
      @lacie5522 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Here's hoping they survive

    • @Yannik79Simon
      @Yannik79Simon หลายเดือนก่อน

      wont disappoint you

    • @danielcollins9628
      @danielcollins9628 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      What children the birth rate has tanked

  • @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533
    @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 หลายเดือนก่อน +239

    Gold is at $2,801.90 USD. It was at 1300 in 2019. The sky has fallen in Erope and China. Ask Germany.

    • @selfprojects1953
      @selfprojects1953 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      It will be $7500 by the time this is done if nothing else increases it from here. It’s undervalued 3x already

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Britain is full of poverty that cannot be escaped from due to the massive overpopulation and continuing inflow of net millions a year

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@selfprojects1953all real gold that paper gold represents is owned an average of 10x. If you don't physically have the gold you will end with £0 after this

    • @matthewwebster3143
      @matthewwebster3143 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Europe*

    • @Baseballnfj
      @Baseballnfj หลายเดือนก่อน

      Germany is just a bitch of the US. NATOs unofficial motto is "Keep the US up, Keep Russia out and keep Germany Down."

  • @BULLTRONHERO
    @BULLTRONHERO หลายเดือนก่อน +163

    The best part about every Whatifalthist video is the 90’s Dragonball Z intro music

    • @shellshocktm
      @shellshocktm หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      I've always thought it had more of a 2000's car review vibe

    • @BULLTRONHERO
      @BULLTRONHERO หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @ Just imagine Goku punching all those cars at Mach-5 speed and we’re both on the same page

    • @ToedCobra33
      @ToedCobra33 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Wait, the intro is actually from DragonBall?

    • @julianezequielpdg7347
      @julianezequielpdg7347 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@ToedCobra33nah mate

  • @touge242
    @touge242 หลายเดือนก่อน +141

    In the early panic of the varus my only reaction was "I didn't expect a collapse for another decade"
    People are denying the looming collapse in a desperate attempt to believe their own lie. You can see the disbelief in their eyes.

    • @ha8536
      @ha8536 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      How much longer do you think we have? Or is it a two additional weeks scenario where everything just slowly declines indefinitely and we don’t even notice it?

    • @selfprojects1953
      @selfprojects1953 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      We have another 5-20 years. Between money madness, population collapse, and ridiculous overreach to cope by the power structures the timing is a bit up in the air. Could be 5 years at worst or 20 max.

    • @xdeathcon
      @xdeathcon หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      ​@selfprojects1953 I agree with that. People talk a lot about it being right around the corner, but it feels like society is just coping so hard at this point that we might be able to hold off until we finally become insolvent and have no avenue to put off dealing with it anymore. It feels like one major difference for us is how much we've perfected kicking the can down the road.

    • @dolanduk7946
      @dolanduk7946 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      How does a millionaire go broke? Very slowly, and then very quickly

    • @cabnbeeschurgr
      @cabnbeeschurgr หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@ha8536 I doubt there will be a single thing where we're like "BY GOD, SOCIETY HAS COLLAPSED" but given how resilient the American system is I would give us another 8-10 years of relative good times.

  • @steampunkdesperado8999
    @steampunkdesperado8999 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    To someone from Rudyard's generation, WWII may seem forever ago, but when I was a kid, pretty much every adult I knew had lived through it.

    • @grayghost7216
      @grayghost7216 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      When I was a kid there were WW2 vets everywhere, they were just normal old guys.

    • @mirceazaharia2094
      @mirceazaharia2094 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My grandma lived through the Americans bombing the Ploiesti oil fields in Romania.
      She was born around 1936, born in a monarchy, then lived in a socialist republic, then a (supposedly) democratic free market nation.
      Live long enough, and you're gonna see some crazy crap.

    • @steampunkdesperado8999
      @steampunkdesperado8999 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@mirceazaharia2094 Wow! Makes me think of my Swedish grandma who was born on a farm in 1907, attended school through the 3rd grade, and lived until 2005. It must have seemed like a different country to her.

    • @brotherbrovet1881
      @brotherbrovet1881 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And the Great Depression.

  • @thirteen28
    @thirteen28 หลายเดือนก่อน +528

    We got a cyberpunk world without the cool aesthetic.

    • @vincentgonzales1988
      @vincentgonzales1988 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      you lack imagination brother, you will see soon enough I bet you

    • @myeka1273
      @myeka1273 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Don’t mind Russian controlled cybernetics.

    • @cabnbeeschurgr
      @cabnbeeschurgr หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I want my robot sword arm goddammit

    • @benc2779
      @benc2779 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do more drugs, brother

    • @mightyx5441
      @mightyx5441 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      in the uk have they extreme inclusivity aesthetic, so yeah that's cool I guess

  • @John_BP
    @John_BP หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    Brother, I've felt this way for over ten years. it's exhausting. I've been doing everything I can to set myself up to weather the coming storm to include moving across the country, starting a business and ending toxic relationships. As bad as it's going to be, part of me wants it to hit.

    • @selfprojects1953
      @selfprojects1953 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      We have another 5-20 years. Between money madness, population collapse, and ridiculous overreach to cope by the power structures the timing is a bit up in the air. Could be 5 years at worst or 20 max.

    • @TaylorWilmes
      @TaylorWilmes หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@selfprojects1953it’s not going to happen.

    • @TaylorWilmes
      @TaylorWilmes หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It won’t happen.

    • @duncanharrell5009
      @duncanharrell5009 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I really hope we have just a little more time. My family is split up and my father is trying to get me out of the liberal hell that is beautiful and historic New England. I have very little funds as is and costs of food, water, weapons, and ammo is insane.

    • @olliefoxx7165
      @olliefoxx7165 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      ​@TaylorWilmes SOMETHING is going to happen. If you have any life experience you can literally feel it in your bones.

  • @tim9817
    @tim9817 หลายเดือนก่อน +659

    Spot on once again. “Society is a dystopia in which the boring Karen’s won, and restructured the world and western civilization in their image”…..couldn’t have said it better myself. The lameness, the fact that everything revolves around safety and liability is absolutely infuriating; it’s preventing real shit from getting done. This so-called democracy has me so disillusioned, I’d never think I’d feel this way. If you told me in 2016 that I’d be leaning Trump in 24’, it would have shocked me. I don’t think I’d believe it
    “The 2024 Election: Or how I stopped worrying, and love the Trump bomb”

    • @selfprojects1953
      @selfprojects1953 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. It’s all done to you on purpose. Fight back. Life has always been a battle. The difference is men used to teach boys to fight. Now single moms teach boys to be safe. Women cannot raise men just boys that shave. Teach yourself to fight back. Start with the best father you can have in God and learn what he has written. It will teach you how to fight and win in every battle.

    • @Luciphell
      @Luciphell หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      @tim9817
      I call them Cultural Marxists

    • @theedwardian
      @theedwardian หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      Ostensibly yes with some caveats. If society truly revolved around safety we'd have a lot more cultural separation. Groups that committed high rates of crime would be simply banned instead of kept around to put fear in the public and force people to rely on the government for "safety" from problem they spent millions cultivating.

    • @billco73
      @billco73 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      me too on 2024

    • @urphakeandgey6308
      @urphakeandgey6308 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I've always just said bureaucracy is the main issue today, but that was a much more poetic way of putting it. Plus, I can tell when I say the word "bureaucracy" to most people, they get lost.

  • @Tradley
    @Tradley หลายเดือนก่อน +636

    You remind me of Jung, who became extremely mentally ill and psychotic, seeing visions of fields of bloody corpses across Europe, only to be relieved upon the declaration of WWI.

    • @tonyp.bahama9368
      @tonyp.bahama9368 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Didnt know this, thanks

    • @BlackAdder-nv2qy
      @BlackAdder-nv2qy หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      So Jung was right, isn't it?

    • @cheesemuffin6213
      @cheesemuffin6213 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      Honestly I feel like Rudyard is probably going to be a 21st century version of Carl Jung and maybe a few other figures

    • @CM-hp5nk
      @CM-hp5nk หลายเดือนก่อน +78

      Before it happens: madman. After it happens: genius prophet

    • @cheesemuffin6213
      @cheesemuffin6213 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @ right on the money

  • @yelsahblah3270
    @yelsahblah3270 หลายเดือนก่อน +159

    I registered as an independent out of highschool because I was never a fan of the government. Just form my own curiosity and studying I had been given no reason to place my trust in the apparatus.
    But I think it was 2008, when I got ahold of a Ron Paul pamphlet that things started to turn for me. I was very curious about why he had raw milk in his list of things he wanted to get done. Ended up looking up the raw milk industry and wound up in a rabbit hole that led to so much insane information I had to take a step back for a while.
    My dislike of the government slowly into pure distrust. By the time Trump came onto the scene I was already well and fully redpilled and out of the matrix. I saw him as the third party option I'd always hoped for. I got to watch much like you in real time as people lost their minds over lies. 2020 was like the dumpster caught on fire. I'm black so I openly and loudly called out all the racist division as it happened. From Collin Capernick to George Floyd. I've gotten some backlash, but some of my family has come around as things revealed themselves.
    The waiting room analogy is perfect. It feels like I've been waiting for any number of catastrophies to happen but time keeps right on ticking. As a Christian, I understand things are not going to get better, but worse, regardless of the election outcome I feel like we're in for a ride.

    • @DavidLymanjr
      @DavidLymanjr หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chirstcucks are half the problem your the whining Karen that made fight taboo but rather then fix the problem it's easy to just whine online and hope God does the hard work for you pathetic

    • @ronjones-6977
      @ronjones-6977 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      For once, I'm glad I'm old. Y'all can deal with this. See you on the other side, my brother.

    • @conorobriencoaching
      @conorobriencoaching หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Ron Paul is the man!

    • @thomas6558
      @thomas6558 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I completely agree with you man. I’ve been saying similar stuff to people just about my gut feelings generally and at first people would either shut it down or give reasons, as he says in the video, of why it wouldn’t or couldn’t happen to us. Now, people I work with are talking to me about how we are mirroring the fall of the Roman Republic. I urge anyone who has not accepted Christ to read tbd Bible and pray for guidance now. Matthew 24

    • @Dark3x
      @Dark3x หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thomas6558 Religion is part of the system

  • @Bob-qk2zg
    @Bob-qk2zg หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    I just finished "The Great Wave" and it's stunningly good, but I remind you of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Rome was broke and broken in 249 AD, but lingered in turmoil until 476 AD. America may have broken in 2008 but we can limp along in denial for another 200 years existing in name only while the spirit of our nation was gone 60 years ago. Sad.

    • @buffalohelix
      @buffalohelix หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Yeah I have a few extra tree rings compared to Rudyard, I remember being convinced america and the petrodollar were finally meeting their doom in 2009. While the trends are real, and I agree broadly with the inevitablity of their conclusions, the timing and triggers may yet elude us. America has great twin flywheels, one of ignorance, another indifference to each other's suffering. Things seem to keep bopping along by pure momentum, even in times when you think surely, the machine should have ground to a halt by now...

    • @thearpox7873
      @thearpox7873 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@buffalohelix That America's three greatest competitors are committed to an insane economic system, stuck in regulation hell, or are still an undeveloped nation have a lot to do with it. The timing was then (and now), but nobody's risen to the challenge.

    • @grayghost7216
      @grayghost7216 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@Bob-qk2zg Information and people move quicker in this era. The USA cannot linger for 200 years the way the Western Roman Empire did. If WRE had 200 years from 249 the USA has maybe 20 years from 2008.

    • @renardfox328
      @renardfox328 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@grayghost7216 You are probably correct that we don't have another 200 years as an empire. But we certainly have more than 3! It may be hard to quantify because our cultural slip into degeneracy and incompetence occurred so quickly, but we have a tremendous and commanding lead over everyone financially, militarily and geopolitically. We can coast a few more decades just on the momentum we had built up til the late aughts.
      We are like the drugged up useless yuppie kid who is coasting off the wealth of prior generations. Even his equally useless grand children will still be able to live off the margins/compounding interest.
      Collapse will come in fits and starts, just as in all empires throughout history. The process will be very slow, and then all at once.

    • @grayghost7216
      @grayghost7216 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @renardfox328 The US is not an empire, it is a decaying republic in its final years as a republic.

  • @useraam
    @useraam หลายเดือนก่อน +138

    This was a fun video to watch on repeat while packing my stuff out of my over priced apartment to spend the forseeable future living homeless

    • @aegiselectric5805
      @aegiselectric5805 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I've been close to there, I wish you the best. Stay strong and don't succumb to the BS engineered to bring you down.

    • @samwood9330
      @samwood9330 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Living in a car really ain’t too bad

    • @jaylewis9876
      @jaylewis9876 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      May as well backpack the world

    • @Maxmarvelus
      @Maxmarvelus หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Wander the earth seek your adventures

    • @remyllebeau77
      @remyllebeau77 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I think I was paying around $800 per month for a two bedroom apartment in GA around early 2000's. I shudder to think what it costs now.

  • @gamer1X12
    @gamer1X12 หลายเดือนก่อน +365

    "I walked through the Maghrebi neighborhood where I got in a fight-which I happily won, but I was pickpocketed, served rotten food and slapped twice."
    bro😭

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents หลายเดือนก่อน +99

      That's a very, very good result for being in that kind of part of France. Next he should visit Birmingham England and walk round the housing estates

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents หลายเดือนก่อน +111

      Diversity is our strength

    • @BlackIce777-b6h
      @BlackIce777-b6h หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      He's 6'4, of course he won

    • @WillMartinWrites
      @WillMartinWrites หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@BlackIce777-b6h I dunno, this is starting to sound like Ethan Ralph in Lisbon but the Nerdcore Richard Spencer version.

    • @coindorni
      @coindorni หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@KelnxI don't think he said he was alone

  • @PancakeProduct
    @PancakeProduct หลายเดือนก่อน +569

    Patiently waiting the Jewish Civilization video.

    • @onionfarmer3044
      @onionfarmer3044 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      It will probably take awhile. I'm assuming he's trying to read deep into it and I bet alot of Jewish history is in Hebrew.

    • @SFVYachtClub
      @SFVYachtClub หลายเดือนก่อน +132

      🇮🇱👶🩸🥣🪛🛩️👨‍👨‍👧💸🎥🏝️ video done, it's only 10 frames long.

    • @SFVYachtClub
      @SFVYachtClub หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah almost forgot: 😋🍆🪚

    • @Islamzindabad-z7g
      @Islamzindabad-z7g หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SFVYachtClubbro is 1488 incarnate 😂

    • @floridaman1483
      @floridaman1483 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      ​@@SFVYachtClub lmao

  • @GeoFry3
    @GeoFry3 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    Gold standards makes it extremely difficult for banks to make money and governments to expand beyond taxes. It takes away their ability to concentrate wealth without the consent of the population.
    It does not make it difficult to grow a legitimate economy.

    • @laststand6420
      @laststand6420 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      It puts the brakes on short term growth and promotes the thing that modern Economists hate the most... Savings.

    • @dustins382
      @dustins382 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah the complaint about the gold standard is that it limits credit availability.... Considering the massive amount of debt that's accumulated since moving off, I don't see a problem here, even if it means "growth is slower".
      And I'm not even a gold standard proponent overall, I think Fiat could work if the money supply was strictly limited through some other means. The gold standard just makes it easy to hold the printers accountable to limit the supply.

    • @laststand6420
      @laststand6420 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dustins382 Yes, they have convinced us inflation is good because it is good, for them.

    • @r2dad282
      @r2dad282 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The creation of the Fed allowed the federal government to operate the $ printing presses at will. Gold and the avoidance of a Fed bureaucracy (just used the 2 year note as the interest rate and be done with it) solves the problems of the past 20 years.

    • @VitorHugoOliveiraSousa
      @VitorHugoOliveiraSousa หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@laststand6420 leading to real growth, no fake growth i.e. economic bubbles. To invest in production lines of more long term goods and consume such goods, people have to save first. Our keynesian model of "growth" driven by consumption is putting the cart in front of the horse, or trying to build a house without a foundation. It only destroy wealth screwing the capital flow structure, like how much wealth was destroyed in the 2007 housing bubble? Trillions burned, millions or billions of working hours wasted, thousands of tons of material, millions of kwh spent, etc building houses that no one could afford so no one lived in them, instead of all that time, human, monetary, material, etc capital being invested and spent in things that people actually wanted or could afford at the time. Now applies this to everything else being propped by money printing just to crash and burn, it's insane the amount of wealth that we destroy. The fact that we aren't already starving to death is a testament on how good modern real capitalism running under the corporativism/fascism and democratic socialism is at dealing with inefficiencies. Specially the pandemic, I'm shocked that the market was able to feed everyone and not completely collapse with bureaucrats literally trying to shutdown the economy entirely.

  • @rothaarige3896
    @rothaarige3896 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I'm Gen X and I felt this as a teen in the 90s. My parents didn't guide me in any way, our family was fractured to rhe point where to this day no one speaks to each other, and my children have never met their grandparents and no one seems to care. Generational wealth has also stopped here, as I see the Boomers as largely psychopaths and narcissists. I have never owned a home, that dream is dead. Your analogy of the "waiting room" has been my hell. I luckily chose the Trades, and have a private pension through a huge union.
    My children might be in for actual violent times. They have much more guidance and training then I had with my terrible parents, and I smothered them with love as well. Cycles should get better. I feel eternity in my bones.
    Thanks for this video

    • @LuisFlores-mc2tc
      @LuisFlores-mc2tc หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Its true even my own family can't say or discuss anything anymore. The death of the family unit has happened already

    • @JohnDoe-ef3wo
      @JohnDoe-ef3wo หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love comments like this. ❤

    • @MaxGucciardi
      @MaxGucciardi หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you look at the average lead exposure for boomers, it's about the same as the worst cases in Flint Michigan. They all have brain damage from leaded gas, leaded paint, leaded pencils and more, and no one wants to talk about it.

    • @xamunchkin
      @xamunchkin หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      God bless you man. Based on what you’ve wrote I see you in myself because I’m dealing with the exact same familial issues and parental abandonment. It’s okay though, I just won’t repeat their bs.

  • @redcrossreborn
    @redcrossreborn หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    You should connect with Dr. Koontz of the Brief History of Power podcast. He grew up in the rustbelt as well. As such, he was confused when he met people saying everything was collapsing. He thought to himself, "what do you mean...hasn't it ALREADY collapsed?" He's got an amazing grasp of history and human nature. I think you two would have an amazing conversation.

    • @buddermonger2000
      @buddermonger2000 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's funny how I've had the opposite growing up because my home state has a society that's simply too recent to have gone through any of these cycles yet and is arguably only now feeling the downturn.

  • @rexkwondo21
    @rexkwondo21 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    Man I wish we could just get this show on the road so we can get it all over with and then hopefully come out on top so my 5-year-old doesn't have to survive and raise a family in a war torn America

    • @selfprojects1953
      @selfprojects1953 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      I think all of us with young ones feel that way

    • @philjimito7250
      @philjimito7250 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My previous comment, though being polite and civil, I guess was too controversial, so youtube auto-deleted it. I love being censored and not being able to have meaningful conversations on TH-cam because they think they need to police everyone's speech to spare a minority of the world's populations feelings.

    • @PNW-REDACTED
      @PNW-REDACTED หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I second this.

    • @deanchur
      @deanchur หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's gonna take a generation at the very least; if we look at previous societal collapses then the women will have to smarten up and re-build men's trust in them before any repairing/rebuilding can be done. Based on historical collapses though I think it'll be closer to 50+ years for the tyranny that certain types of people are trying to install to collapse.
      Unpopular viewpoint: Women control the direction of society because they control men's incentive to go out and do the hard things that women can't (or won't) do in order to build and maintain societies. A Marketer's kryptonite is a single man with no aspirations for female companionship because he'll be happy with an existence that's just above subsistence aka he's not going out and working hard to buy things to impress women, which we're seeing now in Western society (and is the real reason men are being shamed...follow the money).

    • @WillMartinWrites
      @WillMartinWrites หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      You Hope Too Much. Why would that ever happen when it can just Get Worse Forever?

  • @AdrianDanielGuard
    @AdrianDanielGuard หลายเดือนก่อน +85

    My psychic abilities allowed my subconscious to make TH-cam pop up the latest Whatifalthist clip to me 10 minutes after it was posted. I totally did not rationalize my emotion of satisfaction upon seeing the clip appear on top of my list

    • @PodreyJenkin138
      @PodreyJenkin138 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You're going places kid

    • @caringheart34
      @caringheart34 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@PodreyJenkin138
      Your response is utter projection wtf

    • @PodreyJenkin138
      @PodreyJenkin138 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@caringheart34 my response is humorous you vapid sheep

  • @pabloarellano5485
    @pabloarellano5485 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I’m on my last year of university, mexican, basically moments away from receiving my History degree, been watching you since 2020 (right after a lonely graduation of High School bc of quarantine) it’s nice to watch us both grow in our understanding of the world through history, I might one day cite your analysis on Braudel for a paper xd

    • @l.r8206
      @l.r8206 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mexican?? please tell me about the environment at a Mexican college . I saw a few Mexican films and they were full of feminist propaganda, similar to Spanish cinema.

  • @ravenstone366
    @ravenstone366 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." These powerful words by Winston Churchill encapsulate the resilience and unwavering nature of truth. Regardless of how it is challenged or treated, truth ultimately prevails. This quote emphasizes the importance of remaining steadfast in the face of adversity, ensuring that truth continues to shine through.

  • @chickmagnetwampaone
    @chickmagnetwampaone หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    "You can't unsee what you know the truth to be" well said. The writing is on the wall and more and more people are waking up to our grim reality.

    • @sdrc92126
      @sdrc92126 หลายเดือนก่อน

      _The Mosquito Coast_ with Ha Solo

  • @conorobriencoaching
    @conorobriencoaching หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Rudy 1 correction. The ruling class absolutely disdains free market capitalism. It pulls to much power away from the managerial class and the systems relies on being accountable (to consumers, demands of market, staff etc). These types hate that, esp 3 letter agencies and controlling ideologues. They’ll have that system as soon as they embrace socialism. Any question of the Keynesian approach is unacceptable to the status quo of the last 30 years. The amount of gaslighting on its failures and deformation/ slandering on anyone who questions it has been very clearly evident.
    I’ll accept they were mostly free trade but that’s as far as I feel is fair

    • @mechengineer4life
      @mechengineer4life หลายเดือนก่อน

      exactly, they use the language of Adam Smith, free market capitalism, that guys like Ron Paul would also use but as Ron Paul so often pointed out, we have things that are pure fascistic crony capitalism such as teh Fed Reserve which gives big banks and corporations ability to borrow tons of money at far below market interest rates for small business or you and me even if we have elite credit ratings.

    • @Miner-dyne
      @Miner-dyne หลายเดือนก่อน

      socialism always leads to extreme numbers of death - not sometimes, always

    • @Kubinda12345
      @Kubinda12345 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It disdains market capitalism within the countries themselves but they love international trade and internation trade agreements. That's why they are trying to get as much as trade free zones as possible.

    • @mechengineer4life
      @mechengineer4life หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Kubinda12345 yes, they know enough about free markets to ape them with their language, but in practice, they are anything but

  • @dfgyuhdd
    @dfgyuhdd หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    When we examine significant events and movements in history we have the luxury of viewing the beginning the middle and the end. We need to remember that many people died during those events and even those who lived did so in the fog of war. If a great event does happen we probably won't understand it as future peoples will. Owl of Minerva and all.

    • @italianbeans877
      @italianbeans877 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Start writing the primary sources

    • @PodreyJenkin138
      @PodreyJenkin138 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is extremely true and very important

  • @davidadiwego4608
    @davidadiwego4608 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    The society in Demolition Man is the lame dystopia we're arrived at.

    • @robruss62
      @robruss62 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That or Starship Troopers, lol (aka the Diocletian option)

    • @mosespray4510
      @mosespray4510 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mellow greetings, citizen. Would you like to join me for dinner at Taco Bell? No swearing please.

    • @Chris-v6b1n
      @Chris-v6b1n หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nope. It's not that clean and orderly.

    • @mirceazaharia2094
      @mirceazaharia2094 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@robruss62
      Starship Troopers was not that bad. Not that bad at all.
      At least they were fanatical about discipline, personal responsibility, meritocracy, and strength.

    • @robruss62
      @robruss62 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @mirceazaharia2094 I agree with you. Overlooked by many is Raczac's reference in the movie of how society got there by a time of chaos by crazy intellectuals and stupid theories that destroyed the entire political and presumably economic system.
      Order and virtue had to be reimposed. Very successfully. An alternative to unsustainable utopianism of demolition man, or the chaotic carnage of mad max.

  • @AndrewGforce
    @AndrewGforce หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    38:25 Deflation is the value of money going up. Your point is still valid

    • @captainmaim
      @captainmaim หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agree to disagree- deflation is when the cost of money is increasing compared to the cost of labor. Inflation means more of your work gets hired-out and deflation means more of your work is done in-house.

    • @screwstatists7324
      @screwstatists7324 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We want neither inflation or deflation, but a sound-money system like gold naturally tends towards an equilibrium in exchange rates. Breton-Woods was not such a system and ultimately ended because it was not sound money and inhibited deficit spending necessary to sustain the growth of the managerial class.

    • @captainmaim
      @captainmaim หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@screwstatists7324 Gold is deflation. Gentle inflation is ideal because it makes piles of money gradually shrink over time and therefore investment is necessary.

  • @jasonwolfe4205
    @jasonwolfe4205 หลายเดือนก่อน +119

    "Live with a man for 40 years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then one day hold him over the volcano's edge, and on THAT day, you'll meet the man." - Shan Yu (Firefly)

    • @JohnDorian-j7x
      @JohnDorian-j7x หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      What is that supposed to mean? That you can never actually know anyone?

    • @jasonwolfe4205
      @jasonwolfe4205 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      @@JohnDorian-j7x Not without seeing them in crisis mode, no. Like he says in the video, you never know what you or somebody else is capable of until you push them past the point where social and cultural barriers break down and natural instincts take over.

    • @BeachandHills-hb2pq
      @BeachandHills-hb2pq หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@jasonwolfe4205 Your Character and your virtues come out under pressure. The biolgy and instinct is the same for most pepole. We used to joke that all the harshness in the Army built character as a way to laugh it off. I now know that is correct. Virtue and character are built with practice and are seen clearly under pressure and danger.
      The Greeks learnt this thousands of years ago and Christinas used to teach this as well. Only in the modern world is this not known to the average person.

    • @remyllebeau77
      @remyllebeau77 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think most people would settle for having to live with someone to see their true self. Inconsiderate loud noises, not cleaning up after themselves, filling the trash can but never emptying it. We don't need to go far enough to see if they would stoop to cannibalism or something that bad in times of crisis.

    • @jasonwolfe4205
      @jasonwolfe4205 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@remyllebeau77 True. You don't need to see someone under life-threatening stress to get to know them, but if your only interactions are in the form of light, shallow conversations and pleasantries you'll never get to see what they're really like.
      I'm starting to suspect this is why so many people (especially men) don't have many friends nowadays. Most people tend to avoid needless stress (or people who cause needless stress) and if there's no practical need to put up with the bad parts of someone's personality, the far easier solution is to ghost them and move on.

  • @derek4412
    @derek4412 หลายเดือนก่อน +160

    Audio quality sounds improved. It's nice!

  • @broark88
    @broark88 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    19:25 Deflation is the value of money going up relative to other goods, not down, either due to contraction of the money supply or increase of productivity.

    • @livenotbylies
      @livenotbylies หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Thank you, I came to make the same comment.
      Inflation is also a spiritual failure. It's when the powerful class becomes corrupt and extracts faster than the rate of increasing productivity. This destroys society, then things crash, new power takes over. When they succeed, they become proud, the people become soft and here we go again. It's a moral test that we never pass, but we can make good times last longer if we can somehow develop a more virtuous culture

    • @jwt1035
      @jwt1035 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you. I came here to make the same comment.

    • @dominicp.2702
      @dominicp.2702 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just one note to be a contrarion, deflation should mean my banked dollars buy more stuff, but what if we're a severely indebted society with 30 year mortgages? That means we have to work harder (make more stuff) to get the dollars you need to get out of the hole. Inflation or deflation, your personal value goes down. Both are crises. Stability is always the best policy for the market inputs and outputs to autocorrect for real value.

    • @livenotbylies
      @livenotbylies หลายเดือนก่อน

      @dominicp.2702 not contrarian at all. that is the trap we are in. But calling it stability is wrong because it's not sustainable. It is inevitably catastrophic and the longer we go the worse the end will be. We just push the problem out and it gets bigger and more dangerous.
      When we started playing with banking black magic we immediately started to have booms and busts. It's one of the things that contributed to the start of the civil war. Now we are at a point where the system needs to rob the people so hard to keep itself from collapsing that it can't bullshit us much longer and the elite know it. That's why they have become so paranoid and hostile. At some point an addict isn't really trying to get high anymore, they are just pushing out the inevitable consequences of their habit. Desperation and projection. At some point you have to face withdrawal or die

    • @livenotbylies
      @livenotbylies หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @dominicp.2702 not contrarian at all, that's the trap we are in. Once you build a debt "economy" honest money will break you. But it's not stability and it's not sustainable. The question is do we let the parasite keep getting bigger or deal with the pain of tearing the thing off our backs while we still have the strength

  • @metanoia6335
    @metanoia6335 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    12:00 I like how Deus Ex from 2000 basically describes our current reality Rudyard is talking about.

    • @Torgo1969
      @Torgo1969 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      What a shame.

    • @Tyler_W
      @Tyler_W หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Deus Ex (the whole framchise, really) is ahead of its time.

    • @walkingcontradiction223
      @walkingcontradiction223 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@Tyler_W The earlier titles were absolutely peering into the future; past the third or maybe fourth.. They were lacking the same magic.

    • @MattSloanVMMP
      @MattSloanVMMP หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      UGH that game is very special to me. I was playing that in high school when I joined the Army, right before 9/11. The choices JC Denton had to make prepared me in ways I never would have believed. Some things can’t be unseen.

    • @utarefson9
      @utarefson9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@walkingcontradiction223Deus ex 1 used ridiculous concepts to point out serious issues; Starting with 3, they were being serious about ridiculous issues.

  • @sandyfisbeck9488
    @sandyfisbeck9488 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I am a retired history teacher and I think your analysis is brilliant.I follow Neil Howe closely as well.

  • @markhansen6236
    @markhansen6236 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

    Have you looked into something called the male sedation hypothesis? It's the idea that adult corn, video games, and drugs are sedating men so nothing ever happens. You always talk about why something is going to happen but never address the factors that block things happening.

    • @walkingcontradiction223
      @walkingcontradiction223 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      That may work on a segment of our population, but seen way too many people's fully stockpiled basements to believe that would work for the vast majority.. Do you not have a hill you'd die (or kill) on?

    • @cabnbeeschurgr
      @cabnbeeschurgr หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      That would make sense if they weren't putting cringe ass dei stuff into all the things men enjoy. It's like they're poking the bear

    • @MT-xu7dh
      @MT-xu7dh หลายเดือนก่อน

      That stuff just makes them worse. If you want to sedate the male population give them families to raise.

    • @tonyp.bahama9368
      @tonyp.bahama9368 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Dont forget wellfare

    • @prettyboyjeremy
      @prettyboyjeremy หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      It delays and borrows time but trust and believe There's nothing new under the sun and you aren't immune to propaganda

  • @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533
    @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    The expression is ironic because "interesting times" are usually times of trouble.

    • @PorkRoll_F3
      @PorkRoll_F3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Exactly. It’s a Chinese CURSE for a reason…

  • @arejaysii9311
    @arejaysii9311 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Thanks for the post Rudyard

    • @ronjones-6977
      @ronjones-6977 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And on this happy note, I'll head to bed.

  • @josec.6394
    @josec.6394 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    All my life, I've lived a boring, mundane life. Never felt real. I feel like the only times worth living in are the crisis, times of conflict and pain. I am here for the ride and wouldn't have it any other way.

    • @JohnDoe-jk3vv
      @JohnDoe-jk3vv หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You'll make so many victims in your path of destruction. All in the name of fun.

    • @josec.6394
      @josec.6394 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @JohnDoe-jk3vv hell yeah 😎

  • @Varangoi
    @Varangoi หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I can really relate to the waiting-room allegory. In 2020, i was hoping that the world would go back to normal soon. Now, 4 years later, it haven't.
    I feel a restlessness that won't go away...

    • @buddermonger2000
      @buddermonger2000 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Now, why would you think it'd be going back to normal? Come on now.

  • @imunchienandalusia
    @imunchienandalusia หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thanks for taking the time to put this together. I moved from Nashville to Pittsburgh to watch the decline from the Rust Belt. Now i have a front row seat.

  • @NOYB1776
    @NOYB1776 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I hope you all realize that we, the newer generations, (I am Gen Z), will be in control of this world in 20 years. What can happen in between then, who knows. But, if we survive, make it through, and persevere and fight, we can change everything. Literally everything. It is going to take strong men and those who are awake to see the clear changes that need to be made. Just imagine what kind of greatness and amazing things we can build if we come together and say enough is enough.

    • @joey199412
      @joey199412 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Gen Z and Gen Alpha are the weak men.

    • @NOYB1776
      @NOYB1776 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joey199412 You base your opinion on the loud minority.

    • @Enkidoo
      @Enkidoo หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      ​@@joey199412Weak men can become strong. Many do as they get older.

    • @eodyn7
      @eodyn7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Millennials will be controlling the world in 20 years.

    • @DiMacky24
      @DiMacky24 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@EnkidooExactly, the hard times are coming just in time to form these generations into something better.

  • @tsuna666
    @tsuna666 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "Take the greatness if it's given to you" is a quote that goes super hard here.

  • @bhami
    @bhami หลายเดือนก่อน +97

    31:05 "They start a civil war to avoid that. I'm so glad none of those situations apply to us now. We're so blessed!". 😀 Best sarcasm ever!
    I'm 71 years old. I consider you to be one of the most important intellectuals of your generation. You need to write a book that will get you onto a few dozen talk shows and podcasts.

    • @matthewvanburen6415
      @matthewvanburen6415 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      He's already been on podcasts and I think he mentioned something about writing a book on the coming war.

    • @deanchur
      @deanchur หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Avoid the talk shows like Dr Phil, since they always try to shut down people with an unpopular viewpoint (see how Rollo Tomassi was treated when he went on there; ask him a question then cut him off as soon as he tries to answer).

    • @sonicleaves
      @sonicleaves หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@deanchurYeah, Rudyard was on Tim Pool and they were so arrogant and condescending to him. Imagine being talked down to by an ignorant d bag. 🤮

    • @MadsThorlund
      @MadsThorlund หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Let's not stroke his ego so hard. He's repeating what intellectuals have been saying for many many years. But said intellectuals also haven't been "trending" or "popular" in just as many years. Remember there was a time where philosophers would debate each other in real time with the writing of new books and arguments. what not. Now we have Twitter, lol.

  • @TimC1517
    @TimC1517 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “Why not live through some madness”
    I’d have felt the same way 10 years ago in my early 20s, and been sad but excited for the interesting times and the changes they bring. But now, married with kids and a wife who depend on me, I feel only anxiety and sadness. These wars are for you youngsters, I just want peace and safety for my kids

  • @mikestafford6900
    @mikestafford6900 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Been waiting for the world to end since 2004 when I was in high school. Always felt like I've been in a waiting room, too. I think we're closer to opening that door than we've ever been. You're right about the anticipation being exhausting

  • @admiralgaius9796
    @admiralgaius9796 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    Rudyard explain his villain origin story, so excited.

    • @johanjotun1647
      @johanjotun1647 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Villiain assumes his side looses.

    • @admiralgaius9796
      @admiralgaius9796 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@johanjotun1647 Villains can win, it's just that when they win they redefine themselves as heroes.

    • @JacobFraps
      @JacobFraps หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@admiralgaius9796BASED BASED! Nationalism will win over the decadent elite

  • @serbiancapybara2.068
    @serbiancapybara2.068 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Return of the king

  • @TeutobergForestryService
    @TeutobergForestryService หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Rudy’s Bildungsroman has been a beautiful thing to see from a young man. We’ve watched this man grow from a young idealist to a wise old man in real time. Proud of you, my friend.

  • @leaningtoweravenger
    @leaningtoweravenger หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My history professor in high school used to tell that when you are knee deep into a crisis, you never notice it and used to say that if in 400AD you would have asked a Roman for how long the empire would have lasted, they would have said "forever" because for the people that one was what the world always had been.

  • @hufficag
    @hufficag หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Society demands that we are childish, silly, say fuck, irresponsible and carefree. I was an immigrant kid in Canada in 1990s just came from a collapsed USSR where we survived hitmen, shitting in a hole in the ground, lack of food, no running water etc. And I was serious, responsible, mature, just wanted to get on with being an adult at 10 years old and become that yuppie computer guy or a manual labourer, something. But everyone just demanded that I be silly, please say fuck, you plan too much, you're too serious, you're like an old man.

  • @American_Imperialisst
    @American_Imperialisst หลายเดือนก่อน +122

    Just want to congratulate you on your success Rudyard. I saw you got on Timcast. I think youd make a great regular with Tim Pool. Its awesome seeing you get on big name podcasts.

    • @sspectre8217
      @sspectre8217 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Isn’t that guy being investigated for spewing Russian sponsored ideals?

    • @American_Imperialisst
      @American_Imperialisst หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sspectre8217 is he?

    • @Keirnoth
      @Keirnoth หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@sspectre8217 No, stop listening to left wing garbage.

    • @sulkursell9130
      @sulkursell9130 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@sspectre8217No; he was being investigated for TAKING MONEY for spewing viewpoint that alligned with Russian interests.

    • @mirinlatzbrah
      @mirinlatzbrah หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Rudyard is too precious to us to be sullied by Tim Pool

  • @moonfale
    @moonfale หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I have a six month old daughter, and this stuff scares the Hell out of me. Then I remember I live in western Kansas, and nothing really happens out here. So yay let the big cities burn.

    • @stevencooper4422
      @stevencooper4422 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hooray for Kanorado

    • @moonfale
      @moonfale หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@stevencooper4422 A truly odd little town.

  • @evanmilenko
    @evanmilenko หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    This is the first time the "doom" phase of this cycle happens with this level of advanced military weapons, tech, communication and of course nuclear weapons. I suspect if this comes to fruition it will be much worse this time around. I hope not.

    • @WillMartinWrites
      @WillMartinWrites หลายเดือนก่อน

      Never hope too much.

    • @LuisFlores-mc2tc
      @LuisFlores-mc2tc หลายเดือนก่อน

      The dam has been building cracks for quite some time. The dam is about to bust and drown everyone without rafts

  • @kim-jong-poon
    @kim-jong-poon หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I couldn't have imagined a future this dystopian.
    Political unrest, never ending forever wars, surveillance devices in everyones pocket, young men being marginalized while being told they're "privileged" and young women being taught that men are the enemy and child bearing is a burden and not a blessing.

  • @Gojiraa666
    @Gojiraa666 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This was a good one bud, please keep it up - the younger generation really needs to hear this. I’m only in my 40’s but see the value in what you’re bringing to light.
    If you don’t know your history, you are doomed to repeat it.
    😎

  • @rickshaw296
    @rickshaw296 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    You got your economics backwards Rudyard. Inflation is the value of money going down, Deflation is the value of money going up!

    • @Pasta_watcher
      @Pasta_watcher หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Replace value of money with purchasing power

    • @Terran.Marine.2
      @Terran.Marine.2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I noticed that as well.

  • @hightierplayers2454
    @hightierplayers2454 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    I'm getting a sudden urge to build a huge ark....

    • @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533
      @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Dig a hole. The sky is falling! lol

    • @anthonycruz1167
      @anthonycruz1167 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Can I join you

    • @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533
      @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anthonycruz1167
      Got high land. Got physical gold. Got physical silver. Got garden. Got orchard. Got God. Got dry powder. Can identify 50 weeds for food. Got happiness.
      Dig a hole. lol

    • @frost2314
      @frost2314 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Im getting a huge urge to get the boys together and train in Appalachia

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You must fight not run. Every free person will be needed. 😨 If you are American remember the police will be opposing along with scattered army units, likely overall outnumbering the free peoples' forces 😨

  • @Kooldood0874
    @Kooldood0874 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    9:55 ik the BLM and summer of "love" riots were horrible, but an Arby's ingulfed in flames in the background is the funniest thing I've ever seen 🤣🤣

    • @dr.woozie7500
      @dr.woozie7500 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It's even funnier because that's the only time when Arby's smells good, when it's on fire

    • @Kooldood0874
      @Kooldood0874 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dr.woozie7500 I mean, Arby's is pretty okay, but their mozzarella sticks are goated!

    • @alphasierrazulu
      @alphasierrazulu หลายเดือนก่อน

      WE HAVE
      THE MEATS

  • @uchiigtana
    @uchiigtana หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Wow this young man in his early 20’s has figured the entire world out

  • @randonolso
    @randonolso หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The end of this video reminds me of a quote:
    Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  • @primetimeseal8616
    @primetimeseal8616 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Gentlemen - sit back, relax, and enjoy the show

    • @The-future-is-in-the-past
      @The-future-is-in-the-past หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Refill your popcorn

    • @Flesh_Wizard
      @Flesh_Wizard หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The great wave is coming, SURF'S UP DUDES!🤙🤙🤙

    • @Dudley-x2c
      @Dudley-x2c หลายเดือนก่อน

      Best way 👍

    • @sphincterlicker69
      @sphincterlicker69 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The scary part is we're all gonna be part of the show 🙈 and it's not gonna be pretty

    • @LuisFlores-mc2tc
      @LuisFlores-mc2tc หลายเดือนก่อน

      If your not participating in it. It will be a luxury.

  • @danielroehm2822
    @danielroehm2822 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    "Anticipation is often worse than the suffering..."; so true.

    • @WillMartinWrites
      @WillMartinWrites หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      All suffering is suffering; all loss is infinite.

    • @dolanduk7946
      @dolanduk7946 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Spoken like someone whos never really suffered.
      Dudes really out here thinking that shtf is gonna be a grand adventure when in reality itl likely end abrubtly knelt down in front of a ditch

    • @johanjotun1647
      @johanjotun1647 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Walking into Jackson epitomises that statement, thinking you'll have to defend your hole with your life, only to find that there are more sissys than bulls, and only those who gamble borrow or act tough get broken.

    • @redavni1
      @redavni1 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@dolanduk7946 I intend to deserve my spot in the ditch.

    • @dolanduk7946
      @dolanduk7946 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@redavni1 have fun i guess?

  • @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533
    @yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land

    • @johanjotun1647
      @johanjotun1647 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Please tell me that's not some monotheistic scripture that I don't understand, if so could you explain it. tyring to make sense of that as a Nord.

    • @tylerpippin7098
      @tylerpippin7098 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@johanjotun1647 Deuteronomy 15:11, The Holy Bible

  • @bobjennings5021
    @bobjennings5021 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    @whatifalthist, I'm in my 50s, and you are Breath of Fresh Air. I've been following you from almost the start, and recently(the past 5yrs), you are able articulate most of my geopolitical ruminations of the past 40years, and add new thoughts to consider. THANKS! Keep up the Great work.

  • @michaeldavid6832
    @michaeldavid6832 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Rudyard, I've been cursed with similar intuition. Since I was 15, I've voraciously kept attuned to modern political and social dynamics. Over time, this intuition seemed to emerge from some kind of subconscious processing of all that information. I can feel the Zeitgeist. I can almost sense the pain that people are enduring.
    How it feels...
    You're resting on a warm sandy beach -- gazing into a friendly forthyey ocean... then you witness the ominous retreat of the waterline. It recedes beyond the low tide boundary... exposing sea floor that hasn't seen dry air for thousands of years. More and more, sea relinquishes its hold over the land until it vanishes over the horizon. Anyone who witnesses such a distortion of nature may become alarmed. Anyone who knows what's coming knows there's no way to escape it -- you can't run fast enough, you can't drive fast enough, you won't reach a plane in time. Beyond the horizon a beast the size of a mountain and growing larger is rushing at your sandy beach at the speed of an airliner. Nobody can stop it.
    That's what it feels like. An inescapable fate that others don't see or won't see. My intuition has been signalling this off and on over the years based on the accumulated results of recent years. C19 ended any doubt. What's coming is an economic collapse at least as great as the Great Depression. I don't think there will be a civil war, but there will be "times of lead".
    I wasn't sure if it was going to take 10, 15, or 20 years, but now the reckoning's at hand. The years have taught many of us who's lying, who's telling the truth, and the shape of things to come. I hear the talking heads in the MSM but I decode it into real-speak -- the implication and the subtext. Vile plans were indicated recently when they quietly authorized d***ly force within the nation against citizens. That's prelude to martial law -- and worse.
    Then there's the mass-casualty event they've created policies for -- if politicians "don't serve out their term naturally" they make a list of successors... five names long. There are 2 reasons for this: the ostensible reason is to ensure continuity of government. The real reason is that those on that list are the unelected people the admin state desires to have those offices. It's simply prep for a coup. Our TLAs can get compliance of the person currently serving, or "assign" the next one.
    There are many vectors of concern:
    - They likely won't let the T-man take office. I see very few routes to that occurring. They'll declare the election invalid and judges will go along with it. If Americans have any will remaining, hundreds of thousands will march -- and several pounds of metal heavier. I'll wager some current or ex military probably already have addresses. Judges will need military protection. This won't end well for anyone. They'll use it to decalre martial law if it hasn't been declared already.
    - If they let him take office, they'll have pros remove him the old fashioned way.
    - That continuity of government list is an obvious ploy to skirt the democratic process. It's illegitimate.
    - There is a guaranteed economic crisis that's coming in 1 or 2 years at the outside. Too many numbers are moving too fast. We're near a critical point in the curve where the exponential nature of the crisis becomes apparent... soon to be felt by all of us. The e-leet already know this. They set the house a-blaze to rob it and are now stealing the silverware on their way out.
    I saw the economic problems coming 20 years ago. The scope of the political ones only became fully apparent during C19. Everything that occurred since has been trivally predictable. I saw the mandatory pokety-pokes coming as soon as they announced a fixxine. They exposed corruption at every level of government by using their brute force coercion. I'm not so worried about the current coercion, I'm worried about the signal it sent when they began it. It felt like a desperation move as predicate for dire plans ahead for the public. If they'd go that far that fast, the next leap is going to be bru-tal.
    A ruling class doesn't do that unless it has very dark plans in store -- and soon. Their political moves came so suddenly that it triggered a red alert to anyone who knows how to extrapolate meaning from the broad actions taken by a known player. Most of these tactics are known and have been done before. I call it The Weimar Protocol -- they're in lockstep with the Weimar republic but this time, they handled the errors from the last time. This time they compromised almost every institution before they pushed the button. The goal is the same though they cloak it in other names. You can call it State Capitalism but it amounts to the same thing: com-u-nism.
    I was once so innocent -- I didnt' think they'd try that after so many failures... but the com-unists are anything but sensible. Before 2016, I thought all this talk of the reds was conspiracy theory. Now, the conspiracy facts are staring us in the face -- with fevered mad eyes and rainbow hair. C19 taught a lot of us that all the conspiracies we heard were true. Why did we hear them? Because the media chose those particular ones to debunk. Their debunk is their confession. The man who unearthed most of them was removed.
    There are only a few narrow routes out of this and it will be a small miracle of fate and human will if we make it. I guess you could call it the Golden Path -- if we take from Frank Herbert's masterpiece -- his Dune series.
    I read Dune when I was around 14 or 15 I think. I identified with Paul because I could see where things were going and I could tell what people really thought. When you know what people are really thinking of you, it makes you avoid most of them.
    There are dividends when you can see the near and far future. Sometimes it pays off on investments, sometimes you can tell your family to buy toilet paper because you have a feeling that people are going to haord it. My problem is that my personal circumstances never quite allow me to keep my head above water for long. My intuition of investments always comes when I'm not liquid and can't become so. But it richly profited richly those who listened. I profited some, but not enough to escape the rat race.
    At minimum, we're going to endure an economic depression like none seen in living memory. There are some who could navigate this labyrinth of future possibilities, but very few. It requires values, virtues, and principles. Most of those who lead possess none. If those people stay in power, even they will lose everything. When you don't possess the capacity to defer gratification, you foul your own nest and consume the future to feed the present.
    "... wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it." -- Matthew 7:13
    End of essay -- not that you asked.

    • @pbh81
      @pbh81 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ah it was a nice essay. ? Do you see a difference between the the globalist and the commie or is that a distinction without a difference?

    • @gio4698
      @gio4698 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I enjoyed your essay, you are a good writer

    • @c27279
      @c27279 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Do you have discord, skype, or telegram? I would love to keep you on and chat occasionally as we think similarly and are probably the same or similar age.

    • @dakotacavin5210
      @dakotacavin5210 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bravo

    • @michaeldavid6832
      @michaeldavid6832 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@gio4698 Thanks. It's one of the reasons I write replies on YT -- to improve my writing skill. It's a hobby, I guess.

  • @BakerJ790
    @BakerJ790 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Federal Gov. watches this vid : "Guys, I think we need to print more money and bail out more failed corrupt businesses that have been paying out 100's of millions to the owners. At the same time, we can purchase stock in all the businesses were going to give money to the day before and cash out when they bump 50% up. This has worked great for the past 50 years, it can't fail now."

  • @_tenderchicken
    @_tenderchicken หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Glad to see your posting again!

  • @jrhamilton4448
    @jrhamilton4448 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I absolutely love your videos due to their brilliant analysis of stark uncomfortable truths. Sometimes I feel that the editing could be a little cleaner and that they often end abruptly but that certainly doesn't overshadow the message you're getting across to us. Well done as always 🙌

    • @pablodm9
      @pablodm9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As someone familiarized with content creation, it's to max out the "retention rate" metric

  • @HuWhiteDeath
    @HuWhiteDeath หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Whenever Rudyard drops a new vid I drop everything else going on in my life and start watching. That's how good his content is.

    • @escapist502
      @escapist502 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Love your comment, mostly because I didn’t realize I was doing that myself until now😂😂

  • @jamesbohling4864
    @jamesbohling4864 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Growing up in the 80s and going to college in the 90s was seeing the peak followed by the crash.
    I make 6 figures. That is less than what my buying power was when I graduated college.
    It's going to be bad boys.

    • @HeadStronger-HS
      @HeadStronger-HS หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Same here. I’m glad I was able to experience those days.

  • @existextinct
    @existextinct หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Super interesting, turns out my ancestry has revealed that my father's family is descended from William the Conquer. My uncle wrote a book about the entire bloodline all the way back to him.

  • @Asdf-wf6en
    @Asdf-wf6en หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Januaries are the worst for anything that makes money from ads because in December it’s the best when everyone is advertising like crazy to use up the last of their advertising budget and also for the holidays, but in January nobody’s gotten their budgets yet so the ad revenue crashes.

  • @guest273
    @guest273 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    24:18 - So Peter Turchin predicted Discord? Impressive.

  • @father042
    @father042 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    There really is nothing worse than living just as the good times have ended and living through this constant turmoil waiting for something to happen

  • @jonfetzek3053
    @jonfetzek3053 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    10:22
    To be fair Japan really did a number to their own indigenous people before the Americans ever showed up

    • @sulkursell9130
      @sulkursell9130 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You mean the Ainu?

    • @xtr.7662
      @xtr.7662 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sulkursell9130no the jomon the ainu were just a subgroup of the jomon who lived in hokkaido and werent conquered until the 1700s

  • @magnuszerum9177
    @magnuszerum9177 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I would argue that the reason the US is not already in a hot civil war is because of food and biochemistry. Never before in history has food been so cheap that it's cheaper to burn actual food, grain, to stay warm in the winter than to burn sawdust pellets, a waste product. Pellet stove pellets cost a little over $300 a ton locally, check your local grain prices for verification. Specifically, check animal food variants of grain. Our knowledge of biochemistry is also unprecedented. We are also able to manipulate people's behavior by manipulating their biochemistry by manipulating the chemistry of their food and possibly the frequency of light a person is exposed to. At no time in known history have we been able to do this before now, so we are probably breaking the pattern, but probably only to a point. I suspect the tyranny of patterns will ultimately dominate.

    • @WillMartinWrites
      @WillMartinWrites หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That just means it's a Technocratic Nightmare that never ends.
      Loss is Infinite.

    • @thermionic1234567
      @thermionic1234567 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Years ago I was exploring getting a pellet stove and came to the same conclusion. Sickening, but true. One can burn corn to keep warm.

    • @Noname-iq1gz
      @Noname-iq1gz หลายเดือนก่อน

      People are also fed literal trash and industrial waste so they don’t have as much energy as they used to

    • @ericsaul9306
      @ericsaul9306 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think the collapse is already happening but it starts slow with things like the war in Ukraine and then it will accelerate through job automation, and from there it will go really fast until the first ship lands on Mars, I think that will be a reset point much like the discovery of the American continent was to the European societies, it's a sudden promise of untold wealth and freedom from the previous system, thus the revolutionary people will do the logical thing which is pack their things and colonize new lands until we reach a new saturation point a few centuries from now.

  • @lion2535
    @lion2535 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    We're so back!!!

    • @frankiefourfingers911
      @frankiefourfingers911 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yeah sure
      Just wait till the next lockdown comes and Klaus introduces CBDC's

    • @WillMartinWrites
      @WillMartinWrites หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@frankiefourfingers911 Considering how hard the TRSodomites and other popular kids in the Dissident Right reacted, he'll buy into the CBDCs as a way to signal that he's Elite Human Capital.

    • @walkingcontradiction223
      @walkingcontradiction223 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@frankiefourfingers911 Meh, don't believe they have any of the power that is being ascribed to them. Your own government is always going to be the catalyst, not some band of aristocrats meeting every once in awhile to measure.. You know.

  • @14augustneverforget
    @14augustneverforget หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    You can only deny glory to men for so long

    • @frost2314
      @frost2314 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Ride now!
      Ride now!
      Ride! Ride for ruin...
      ...and the world's ending!

    • @olliefoxx7165
      @olliefoxx7165 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Let the blacksmiths pound the anvil, hammering horse shoes and swords alike. Spin the grindstone, sharpen the blades and oil the leather till it shines. Saddle the horse, cinch the belt, climb high on the mount. Can you see the smoke rising, can you smell the fires burn? The wind carries distant voices, are they cheers or cries of pain? We ride to the horizon where the sky touches the plain.
      History is upon us like an avalanche. It will carry us or bury us.

  • @Thedennati
    @Thedennati หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love your sense of humour, Rudyard 😁❤ I hope you survive and thrive off whatever destiny tosses your way.

  • @Justtryingtosurvive83
    @Justtryingtosurvive83 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    The Karen’s won until the very ground under their feet shakes and they have no idea what to do.

  • @Baseballnfj
    @Baseballnfj หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I know David Hackett Fisher... being a historian of the Revolution in New Jersey myself. I had the great joy of showing him some sites in New Jersey that few know about. We definitely were of one mind about America... our current system of government is untenable and a crash is definitely coming. Soon.

  • @fb2827
    @fb2827 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    And now, it's 3 in the morning where I live but can't stop watching whatifalthist!

  • @olivius8891
    @olivius8891 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    The strife will build my character. Should I survive, I will have built up some insane dad lore.

    • @johanjotun1647
      @johanjotun1647 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Those last few with the help of ODIN ZUES and the old gods stood in the crucible Repelling the horde until they reached the pantheon of godhood themselves.

  • @dantangelo
    @dantangelo หลายเดือนก่อน

    God i love the thoroughness and volumetric breakdowns of everything you go over. With on screen bibliography and visuals as you go. Like memeing your way through a story.

  • @JimPowellS
    @JimPowellS หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    12:35 I'm glad Rudyard is self-aware of his prophetic warnings and willing to own them whether they happen or not

  • @ase773
    @ase773 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The cookie.... where is it! I needs it...! You promised! 'Golem, golem!'

  • @JG-oi5gg
    @JG-oi5gg หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Rudyard you missed at least thirty critical years of actually being alive and paying attention. If you had been alive during the seventies, you would know that was the decade of dislocation, when the cracks in the postwar liberal establishment (signified by a workable understanding between the rich and the working class) became impossible to ignore. The eighties were the decade when the right started to "panic" but their response was to reorient (no pun intended) our world from Europe and the Atlantic to China/the Far East and the Pacific. Reagan is the first President to signify this transition. Republicans and Democrats alike are guilty for deindustrialization. Trump is nothing more than a measure of how fed up all of us are. Gen X grew up expecting good jobs in factories IF we didn't get a degree that automatically made us upper middle class. And we came of age with a sinking feeling that we had been had. Duped. Rooked. Donald Trump is all of us (post boomer, they believe in him lol) saying fuck it, they want to sell us out fine let's just burn it all down and see how they like that. Give Yankee Cowboy War a read, at least the preface.

  • @ronniebby3148
    @ronniebby3148 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I feel like I'm driving into a crash

    • @trowbreezy__
      @trowbreezy__ หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That you can see yet can't avoid. Like a dream

    • @walkingcontradiction223
      @walkingcontradiction223 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@trowbreezy__ You swerve to avoid the colllisoion, yet the obstical would jump out in front of you? No, certainly never had that dream..

    • @johanjotun1647
      @johanjotun1647 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Calm down your a passenger headed for a crash, it's not going to effect your insurance rates.

    • @trowbreezy__
      @trowbreezy__ หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johanjotun1647 yeah only it'll just kill you

  • @omarmohamed3473
    @omarmohamed3473 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My favorite TH-cam channel at the moment. Keep up the great work Rudyard!