“Too young to understand, too old to care. In the middle, busy enough to choose to neither understand, nor care.”
This is my definition of the educational transition the US is facing, a transition especially dangerous for the youngest of citizens whose minds can easily and permanently be influenced, molded, and corrupted.
This reality is quickly spreading around the world as well.
Generational knowledge has been replaced by third-party sources, often superficial and inaccurate. While not too long ago kids first learned from their grandparents' stories and from their parents' experiences, now there is Tiktok and a slew of infantile Gurus and Influencers. While in the past, teachers were revered, today’s smartphones take precedence in offering what is perceived as credible authority. AI is only going to exponentially increase the cultural divide between generations.
Manipulation and indoctrination are two of the oldest “strategic games” being played by humanity, so this is not a new phenomena.
What IS new, is the overwhelming sum of background processes being deployed to dismantle the old frameworks of our society.
These life-altering processes are quasi-visible and far-reaching social, economical, and ideological steps towards an entirely new model of structuring the functioning of human civilization, a model we are rushing into at an accelerated pace.
I can only see four possible outcomes:
(1) the entire world splits into two distinct geo-political zones, economically and ideologically independent and isolated from each other;
(2) the entire world falls under the governance of this new model and a new way of life emerges;
(3) the world enters a global and self destructive conflict resulting in a massive reduction of human population as well as a drastic reduction of inhabitable areas.
A fourth (4) option is theoretically possible, but practically not plausible - humans rise up against this new framework and new ideological regime, managing to bring it to a halt or at least disrupt its spread.
The issue with this 4th option is that it would require a plunge into administrative chaos and we would lack the ability to manage such a global crisis without a massive loss of life.
Ultimately, the 4th option would lead to a vacuum of power in the context of the human species reduced to at least half of what it is now. At that point, anything would be possible, but nothing would prevent further self-destruction.
There is one other really slim option where the structure of our civilization is changed but humans have no reaction, accepting it unconditionally.
We see this last option currently in progress, happening right now, but there is no guarantee that the fundamental changes being implemented also include protective measures for the well being of humanity. I believe that humanity is not in a state of acceptance, but a state of disbelief, and therefore, sooner or later, one of the four above options will emerge instead.
More so, the strategic steps being presently taken to alter the course of humanity’s future point to a militarized approach, backed by extreme nationalism. War is baked into the new ideology, and presented as an inevitable step towards “peace through strength.”
In other words, a takeover and a restructuring of global power being accomplished through trade wars to destabilize economies, ideological warfare to divide population until everyone turns on everyone else, and military strategic strikes including armament transactions and new weapons testing on actual targeted populations - all being deployed simultaneously with the assistance of enhanced militarized AI. The beginning of this new shift is already in progress.
If this seems grim and pessimistic it's because it actually is. It's a very old board, but the game played is a very new one and by the time we're done second guessing what the rules are, it will be game over. However, even with the very likely possibility where we lose and begin to descend into a dystopian reality, it is imperative that we at least understand how it happened, so we can give future generations a chance to stand up once more. If this knowledge does not emerge to survive a generational transfer, humanity as we know it truly is on its last breath.
If you think we have time, and there is no reason to panic, here is my timeline projection for the human race as a civilization as we know it:
Until recently, I projected that our current civilization, the current MODEL, will fall within the next 80-120 years max. I have now degrade it to 10-70 years max. And in case you wonder, I use (subjectively evidently) 2 parameters. (1) is the generational collapse and (2) is based on the median age of the gang who took over in the US lately. Both parameters independently would also lead to the same outcome, hence why I downgraded so drastically and really threw myself into a frenzy with regards to my own kids.
Also, the first parameter could potentially be improved, given the resources and a very aggressive strategy. The second parameter however is... implacable. If we're lucky, we have about 40-50 years to transition; if we're out of luck, we're looking at chaos within 5 years max, and massive loss of life within 10.
This aggressive shift has already started in and from the US, and will continue to spread rapidly. I believe that the next 1-2 years will determine the faith of the entire species. My conclusion is based on tracing the strategic steps being rapidly taken, a lack of reaction time available from anyone in a position to resist or slow down this process, a catastrophic deterioration of education - including family relations, and the mindset and ideology of those currently placed in position of power and control. It is happening NOW, it just hasn't yet "hit" the everyone's consciousness.
It truly is time for everyone to focus on solutions and to accept the vital importance and necessity to be involved and to raise our voices before we, as a species, completely forget what we all once dreamed to become.
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