Musings after the iceberg
Within a few weeks, the horror of Israel's attack on Iran will become apparent
When my grandchildren ask me what I remember most fondly about the culture war of the pre-collapse years, my answer will have to be the memes.
Amid the darkness, in the despair of too much knowing and the realisation that no one was coming to save us until Jesus comes back, the memes helped to make it more bearable. Laughing into the Abyss as we got banned on yet another social media account.
Memes have done more than essays or long-form videos or stirring orations to change the culture. Seeing Rose, for example, exposed as the true villain of the Titanic: sleeping around on her devoted suitor; letting the guy she shagged die of hyperthermia when she could have helped him up our of the water; hiding a priceless jewel after she was rescued; then throwing said priceless jewel into the sea for reasons instead of passing it down to her grandkids.
She and Jenny from Forrest Gump are the true movie villains, and millions of people have come to understand that through shoddy images and text chucked together on Paint.
The further you go down the rabbit hole, of course, the more you learn about who probably had the Titanic sunk and why. There are memes for that, too.
I’ve been thinking about the Titanic quite a bit recently, because I think it’s a perfect illustration for where industrial modernity is at right now. Israel’s attack on Iran on February 28 was the iceberg moment. We’re still above the water, but it’s just a matter of time.
By ‘industrial modernity’, I mean the ultra-connected material economy that sits invisibly underneath the financial casino that normies think of as ‘the economy’, if they think of it at all.
The material economy, as people around the world are about to be harshly reminded, is the real economy. The debt-based financial system built upon it is just fakery that generates claims upon the material economy via debt. Number go up is only meaningful to people because they assess it against what material resources that number could be used to claim. When Boomers became paper gazillionaires from land price inflation, they felt rich. The number they saw on realestate.com showed them how many more new cruises and convertibles they could then potentially consume with it.
By attacking Iran and guaranteeing that Middle Eastern oil production, processing, and distribution is offline for the foreseeable future, the Zionists have ensured that the world will soon begin to run out of the diesel, bunker fuel, industrial lubricants, chemical fertilisers, and innumerable derivative products that our way of life depends upon.
We’re talking plastics; food packaging; water pipes (PVC); electrical wire insulation; tyres; synthetic clothing (polyester); foam mattresses; furniture cushions; detergents; shampoo; toothpaste; pharmaceuticals; paints; adhesives; fertilisers; pesticides; electronic device casings; medical plastics (IV bags, syringes); synthetic rubber seals and gaskets; industrial lubricants. For starters.
It’s impossible to overstate the extent to which the material economy that we rely upon for our financial economy to appear buoyant in turn relies upon the magical rock juice that God, hilariously, decided to put under the Muslims.
The Israeli attack was launched on February 28. We’re now at the start of June. The Australian government has managed, via chicanery and the release of strategic reserves around the world, to postpone the day of reckoning. But that day is coming.
There will be no lifeboats for us. The luxury cruise liner of easy consumerism is going down to the bottom of the ocean, never to sail again. That era is over. Permanently.
Nowhere in the world can provide oil of the type and ease of extraction that the Persian Gulf can, and there is no way oil tankers get marine insurance affordably in the future to sail there. Globalism is dead. Consumerism is dead. The world is about to begin a slow process of changing back to what it was before the combustion engine and the modern petrochemical industry made us believe that history had ended.
Unlike the guests on the Titanic, the normies have no idea what is about to become apparent. It won’t be immediate mass starvation, at least not in countries like Australia. But it will be rough. We saw how normies freaked out when they couldn’t get their Sorbent back in 2020. When diesel begins to be rationed, the cargo ships stop arriving, and the crop shortages lead to epic food inflation next year, they’re going to lose their minds. Who will they turn on? Time will tell. The elites no doubt have a cover story scheme ready to roll out so the masses don’t think too hard about why Australia was in such a vulnerable position in the first place.
The normies are still sitting at the bar, enjoying the music, thinking about dinner. Let them. The Titanic is famous because, sinking on the eve of World War I, it is an emblem of an elegant, aristocratic, European way of life that never came back fully again after 1918. Our way of life today has no elegance to it, no innate superiority or refinement. It is degraded and degrading. But it is comfortable, and that is likely what people will miss about it once it’s gone.
The elites who have created this calamitous situation have known for a long time that it was inevitable. They will have their boltholes, their haciendas, and their private retreats. They will have their lifeboats.
I don’t envy them. They will not survive long term once all of humanity is set free from the debt system that enslaves and corrupts us. They probably think AI and robots will save them. They won’t.
I can’t wait for the future. Let the decadent edifice of this rotten system sink into the icy waters. The world we are entering will be harsh and cruel and cold, but it will be ours.
It will not be theirs.
My apologies for my inconsistent posting recently, dear reader. The truth is that I have spent the last three years working on a project that only now is coming to fruition. I’ve been researching and writing a book on Biblical cosmology that is now published on Amazon (here if you’re in Australia and here if you’re in North America).
I’ve been writing commentary now for 10 years and the reality is I’m not very good at it. It requires a skillset that I do not fully possess. My training and experience are in education, and given that the cabal that certainly don’t rule Western countries has made it impossible for me to work in my profession ever again, I’ve come to accept that the only viable future for me professionally is as an independent lecturer.
I’m a teacher, not a ‘content creator’, and certainly not a journalist. In the coming months, I will be launching an online course that will be free to Substack subscribers. The course is called Introduction to Biblical Cosmology, and in it I will be teaching about the cosmological worldview within which the Bible was written and read during the time of the early church.
If you’re wanting to learn how to read the Bible the way it was written, keep an eye out. This will be my last ‘blog’ post. In the future I’ll use this site to post material to support my teaching videos. I might even figure out how to get a Substack podcast going.
I wish to thank all of you who have taken the time to read my articles and send donations over the last ten years. It’s sure been a trip.
David.