pay attention to the NOTE at the bottom, i.e. "Primary loyalties" and having nation-state flags in churches, families and clans selling out for xmas instead of Advent and ChristMass to Epiphany.
Time for Christian resiliance and justice work with anabaptist, separatist, non-constantinianism models and I explicitly reject so-called xtian RECONSTRUCTIONISM (*ssholes!) but then again I am a royalist at heart when someone asks me exactly which king I am waiting advent for. Thanks Matisyahu. King without a crown rocks it.
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The recent announcement of Chicago's sale of its parking meter franchise in order to cover current expenses (part of the growing tsunami of fire sales of public assets in the works by nearly bankrupt state and local governments), reminded me of a paper I published over the Christmas holiday of 2007. The paper (click to read) was in anticipation of the global financial meltdown. I wrote it to help readers get their heads around the implications of rapidly occurring events. Unfortunately, it is playing out to script. It's a good backgrounder for people interested in the future of warfare and resilient communities.
NOTE: Recent efforts to use economic stimulus to reignite the economy are likely to fail badly (Keynesian economics isn't likely to work). Why? Simply, you can't artificially stimulate an economy undergoing a solvency crisis (unlike the situation we faced during the first depression where we were a creditor nation with strongly positive balance of payments, we are now a debtor nation with deeply negative flows).
NOTE: The current crisis is global in scale (too big for any nation-state to handle) and far too complex to model. Worse, it morphs faster than governments can respond. This failure to return conditions to stability will cause a widespread and catastrophic loss in legitimacy for nation-states. As a result, a psychological shift is in motion, spreading at epidemic rates on a global scale, that will put loyalties to family, gang, community, church, etc. (in toto: primary loyalties) far above loyalty to nation-states. The end result will be that global guerrillas and resilient communities will become the two poles of the social spectrum in the future. Don't be caught in between.
Things you can do from here:
