the structure of history is held together by two essential and distinct kinds of links two moments in time to which no one is immune moments of a pivot me and the moments of catastrophe sometimes both elements into mingle at the best of a singular epoch men often awaken to understanding in the midst of great crisis and invariably great crises can erupt when men awaken these these two worlds can co exist only for short periods of time and they will always and eventually collide there is no other possible outcome i think it could be said that the more polarized our realities become the more explosive and disastrous the reaction will be when the separation is removed i feel it absolutely necessary to relate this danger because today humanity is living so historically far from the bedrock of reality political reality social reality and economic reality that the stage has been set for a kind of fool's spectrum destabilization that has never been seen before when the initial phase of the global collapse was triggered in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight there was a substantial explosion an interest in education in terms of liberty issues and alternative economic awareness i remember back in two thousand and six when i'd just begun writing for the movement that the ratio of people on any given web forum or in any given public discussion was vastly opposed to alternative viewpoints and information at least fifty to one by my observations we were at the height of the real estate frenzy everyone was buying houses with money they didn't have and borrowing on their mortgages to purchase stuff they didn't meet life was shock of the credit crisis came quickly and abruptly for most people and there has been a considerable shift in the kinds of discussions many are willing to entertain about our future yet the idea that such things can happen despite consensus of social and jip political health does not seem to have slipped into the thick skulls of average people time unfortunately has a magical ability to raise vigilance it's not that the public has necessarily forgotten that danger can strike any time any way though some of them have many of them no food well that culture is floating on a paper thin ship in a turbulent sea however the disturbing trend today reveals that people have decided they do not have taking the blue pill is the rising rally cry from the so called new normal yes the economy is an  it's been said that during the economic collapse of the one nine hundred thirty s and the great depression that the great depression was a depression only thirty percent of people that had lost everything fully employed and financially secure the depression most much like any other time this is the point at which we stand today in the collective mindset with nearly a third of the us population kicked off the unemployment rolls and approximately half the country dependent on a government check of some kind for their survival the current depression is only now beginning to feel like a depression for anyone the soup lines of received a fresh candy coating of teeth and welfare payments but the  is finally fading and this should be of great concern to all of us and twenty fifteen even more frightening is your culture's deluded sense of what a collapse actually looks like for many and the rest of the world have been experiencing that process everyone is waiting for equities to implode and for social unrest to erupt before they can take the threat seriously but these are not signals of collapse these are the things that occur when a collapse has run its course collapse never occurs overnight it takes years for the effects of social and fiscal breakdown to be visibly felt and when they are felt many people refused to notice eighty years ago america was half way through the great depression and mainstream economists were still claiming that recovery was a light around the corner  self deception can be so powerful that even the west miseries can be normalized at least for a little while and it isn't only the general public that is stricken with crippling bias there are those within the liberty movement  brought into false paradigms for various reasons and the stratton's any progress we have made over the past several yes there are those who still think that the conflict between eastern and western politicians and banking elites is somehow there are those who believe that russia and china despite the numerous and undeniable ties to the global banking syndicate all the good guys while western nations other bad guys rather than all of them being me is subsid franchises of the same monstrous globalist machine they hold on to the solution i think because it is much more frightening to accept the reality that we are alone that the liberty movement is the first and last line of defense against centralization that the responsibility for the future of independence and individual freedom rests on our shoulders it is much easier to fantasize that there are east is actually working in tandem with international finance his instead of working against them there are also those in the movement who cling to the notion that the fight against globalism will be won without physical conflict they believe that if we simply protest long enough play the political and legal game long enough long enough refused to participate long enough that the elitist edifice an edifice which has existed for centuries and has manipulated historical first problem with the strategy is that it relies on the assumption of time sure anything is possible given ample opportunity perhaps the movement could grind away at the new world order the course of several decades until the majority of the masses are awake and aware which is exactly how long it would take however i think it's infinitely foolish to presume that we have decades to accomplish this  if the pastas shown us anything it is that tyranny does not respect reason and at a certain point couldn't care less about image tyranny respects only power it does not not willing to be the rattlesnake as well then you are not going to affect change against such an opponent you will eventually be stepped on the refusal to accept responsibility for one's own defen defeat themselves with their own minds before they ever stand up and said they never stand this is the only reason totalitarian elements ever achieve success again many in the liberty movement are going to face a rude philosophies i am relatively certain them manner of viewing the world is much like that of a cult a religious sect driven by the brutality of zealotry rather than the empowering nature of understanding such men cannot be this incredible array of propaganda levelled at the public the constant war gaming and mind gaming against the citizenry the endless hail storm of eagle maneuvering designed to raise our sense of connection without a natural rights pretend to be if they really were all knowing philosopher kings born to rule and they would already have their new world order they would not need lies they would not need the threat of force the clamoring for substance so they are just as afraid as most of humanity i believe we are entering an era in which they will feel the stock pain of shattered illusions and the destruction of their own fantasies no less felt than the pain of the rest of alan mission as an opposing force to globalism is to come to terms with our own indonesians and to raise them to stop compromising and to stop and waiting for the final shoe to drop and to take positive action now rather than off to the endgame to finish this means preparation and organization for the west case scenarios this means making one's family neighborhood and community a self reliant if we do this and if we do it now then victory is possible in any contest of strength and will he who knows himself best he who sheds all illusion will be the winner