I’m not suggesting I have it all figured out, that I know all of the pieces, or that this post can accurately convey all that’s going on in my mind (and all that I’m intuiting)—but what happens when all of this occurs at the same time?
When you stack resource scarcity, zero food independence, wild weather, and wrecked supply chains on top of "oil shortages" and insane fuel prices, you get a massive cost-of-living spike. Couple that with jobs being increasingly automated and AI taking over massive sectors of employment, and you have a recipe for massive job loss at the exact same time.
This combination creates the perfect excuse to strongly coerce the population into food tokens, carbon tracking, rolling blackouts, energy quotas, restricted travel, and a total reliance on "the system," so to speak. This is a textbook example of the Hegelian Dialectic at play.
I doubt it’ll look like “you’ll lose your ability to travel if you say
_ online,” and more like “you’ll lose your ability to get a job if you say
_ online.” In an already horrible job market, that makes it impossible to pay for what you need, which will have already become wildly expensive. For those who struggle to make ends meet, a UBI with expiration dates (use it or lose it) and geofencing (only available for use in certain areas) will be offered. And it’ll be directly tied to your compliance levels on a variety of things the government deems necessary for “safety and security” at that time.
These are all “offers” that ultimately require some form of our consent.
Okay… whew.
So what’s the solution, as I see it?
First, I want to be clear, I don’t claim to have all of the solutions. Nor am I claiming that this post is 100% accurate.
This is merely what I am intuiting and what I personally think are (some) solutions, and I believe additional solutions will continue to arise for those who trust God and move into the direction of solutions like these.
It’s ironically what we’d benefit from doing whether or not all of these potentials pan out. Grow your own food as best you can, store shelf-stable food if you feel called to, get chickens if you can, build a rainwater catchment system, look into non-electric, gravity-fed alternatives for water filtration, and look at alternative energy sources to power your home. Support local businesses, form real, like-minded local relationships, form local seed-sharing groups, form barter and trade networks, learn useful hands-on skills, and form tight-knit local communities that understand the importance of inter-autonomy. Consider investing in tangible, useful assets if you have the means to. And MOST importantly, trust God, talk to God regularly, sit in stillness, know yourself more deeply, and really SEE the precious people around you.
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If you follow me, you may be asking—“Alec, by focusing on this, aren’t you helping to energize these potentials?” No, and if you received it that way, that is not my intention. But I cannot deny what I’m feeling intuitively. Could I be wrong? Of course.
I really like the mindset of “be aware, but not consumed.” Aware means you understand what others are (very actively) co-creating. But to be consumed means you’re actively feeding it with continual thought, time, and perpetual fear. I choose the former. In fact, when exploring all of this and writing this piece, I am not at all fearful. I have a deep trust in God and my abilities to do what’s called of me with whatever situation arises. You might find this analogy helpful:
As a former professional athlete, I know the most important aspect of your game is your mental, emotional, and spiritual state. By far.