Yuyutsu,

“UBI can lessen the pain”.

The overlords know this. They won’t hand it out because they are kind. Once they have you reliant on them, they own you. Government pensions already have their recipients dancing to the government tune - you can do this, you can’t do that.

“You failed to address the root cause”.

No. I did not. I am merely presenting a mini review of a book, which most people will not have read - nor will they read it, sadly. There is nothing of me in this post. I do agree with the author’s predictions, though.

Serfs have revolted in the past - often winning, too. They can do it again; although the grit seems to have departed from most of us, and the latest generations are useless.

You “drastic reduction in human population" is coming. Read the book. Thanks for your civilised and thoughtful response.

I've noticed a few articles, podcasts etc along these lines coming out recently. I think the reason and the timing is the overthrow of Trump and the apparent defeat of Trumpism.

While Trump was in power the barn-door remained closed, or at least ajar. While the globalists of big tech, big media, Wall St and big academia feasted on the bones of an impoverished working and middle class during the Obama years, they were content and viewed the future as secure. A further 8 years of Hilary would see the installation of the new oligarch completed.

But Trump's victory in 2016 disrupted all that. Worse et, from their point of view, Trump was doing what politicians aren't supposed to do - he was following through on his promises to the 'deplorables' et al.

To be sure, the globalists continued to push their agenda, but Trump pushed back and was winning. Decoupling from the CCP was proceeding, threatening the wealth and power of those who'd based their fortune on continued transfers of wealth from the US to the CCP. But Trump was threatening all that. The most famous Trump poster had him saying.. "In reality they're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way".

Well he's not in the way any long. A conspiracy was organised by the globalists to oust him and it was successful....

The western world, or at least the Anglosphere, is in for almighty change. Democracy will survive - in name only. The globalist oligarchy has won and will only be defeated at great cost.

The two most imprtant articles post-Trump on this should be read by all concerned. They won't be, but they should be. Not that it'll make any difference, but at least you'll understand what's going on around you....

http://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

http://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants

If you read nothing else this year, read the last one.

Serfdom is certainly more likely when there is no one like Trump around; that's why Big Tech (the new feudal wannabe overlords) got rid of him.

But where are the Vikings?

How can we have feudalism without Vikings?

After all, medieval Western European feudalism was a sociopolitical response to Viking invasions.

So, where are the Vikings!

Maybe they're all down the pub drinking with the Bogan Australians (aka Australian Australians).

Hi Hanrahan,

Do you really think that Trumpf wouldn't have engineered a system of serfdom - as you seem to define it - where everybody was either a 'serf' or a police marshall ? Fat chance, actually.

Anyway, it's all completely unlikely, no matter who might like to promote such a system. Seriously, nobody would tolerate any moves towards it. We're not moving towards a Venezuelan model, or anything like some sort of fatuous One World Government. Not going to happen - in a word: Africa ?

Try to move back to some sort of reality, Hanrahan.

Joe

Yeah. Completely unlikely - in the minds of fatheads who never read anything for fear of finding out the truth, something scary. Stay ignorant with your head in the sand and your arse in the air to be bitten when it's too late to do anything about it. No skin off my nose.