THE ATOMIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA

A house divided cannot stand

It had been a long time coming, and the signs of its coming had been completely obvious.

However, as the old adage goes, there's none so blind as those who will not see.

It was described in many ways, some of them had a very positive slant.

Usually, for those who had particular reason to eternally support the myth of American exceptionalism it was called freedom. For others it was a sign of vigorous health, that the constitution was functioning as planned, that it proved the nation was strong enough to withstand any chaos thrown at it.

Entrepreneurs constantly underpinned their whole hopes and dreams with the vast chaotic anarchy of the free-flowing, rule-breaking insanity of it all.

Myriad groups contended for the prize of ever-greater and power and wealth in a free-for-all that invited many outsiders into the ring. Within the ring punches were thrown freely, all kinds of rules were broken from top to bottom inside a spurious notion of law and order that acted as an arbitrary, swinging punch ball that sometimes helped and sometimes harmed. All of the above dependant on how much money you had to make the dial turn to your favourite station.

You pulled levers and greased palms, you got the best lawyers if you got caught and you found the best advisers so you didn’t.

Up above the whirlwind of striving, wheeling and dealing dwelt the puppet theatre of politics where money determined as much as humanly possible in its own mini-whirlwind of influence paralleling the one below.

Sitting above the whole mess was old and new money with the best financial, political and geopolitical “microscopes” available with which to predict and manage trends, direct the eyes of supposed justice and arrange the whole facade to look semi-convincing.

The Ponzi scheme of North American life however, was reaching its nadir, all the in-fighting, all the manipulation, leveraging, speculating, criminalizing and crime-making, all the graft, the scams, the speculations, assertions, cabals were coming to a fatal intersection.

The tensions and fragmentation had all been useful and used to the max to make almost unlimited wealth. But it was all destined to come to a sticky end in a scheme where no brake, let alone a reverse gear, was available.

The hooligan juggernaut economics of the U.S. system of endless exploitative graft was about to hit the buffers. The most corrupt system of chain letter economics had exhausted its clientele and was about to leave the tailenders in abject mental and physical poverty.

There would be no way to put the U.S. Humpty Dumpty system together again. Nothing fitted the new world that was aborning, it was simply too archaic, too barbaric in its mentality, far too sure of itself in its delusional state of “perfection” to see how it could be made fit for purpose.

Implosion would follow implosion. Confusion reigned. How the great were fallen and no new great could rise.

It was all over.

The atomization of North America would be complete.