Here’s What Pessimistic Morons Forget When They Call for a Sudden Collapse of America
The quadruple whammy of present-day sh*t sandwiches
Pessimistic morons are overtaking the internet.
I know that’s a harsh description, but they piss me off. And they’re toxic for our brains. Go on platforms like Twitter and Medium or even read mainstream news and you’ll see it everywhere. Youtube is full of videos talking about the coming collapse.
Too many pessimists think we’re going to hell.
Good news: we’re going to be fine. America isn’t going to collapse and become a 3rd world country. Things aren’t bad. Things are better than they seem.
2020 looked like the end of the world
Cast your mind back.
The bat virus from old mate “Woo-Woo” in the red flag country broke out. Around the time it happened my wife was over there on holiday.
“Is this going to spread to all countries do you think, honey?”
“Take a chill pill love. It’s just another bird flu scare. Ain’t nothing gonna happen.”
Weeks later the bat virus spread faster than a douchebag’s Lambo. I was wrong. It was bad. I got scared.
We couldn’t go to work. We couldn’t go in the street. The worst part was this bloody enemy was invisible.
I thought everyone had it so I stayed away and hid in my bedroom with no lights on for the first half of 2020. The thought of a vaccine was unthinkable. It was going to take ages.
We’ll all be bloody dead by then, I thought.
What made me sh*t my pants was seeing all the body bags loaded into trucks in New York. It really did feel like the end then.
But things did get better. We found ways to manage the virus. Most of us got the jab of life in the arm. Later strains weren’t as deadly.
Fast-forward to now and we’re returning to some kind of normal.
The Donald Duck problem
If you’d told me a reality tv star was going to become president, I would have laughed. Yet somehow Donald Duck got the gig.
When it was time for him to leave he threw a tantrum and the Jan 6th events transpired. It looked as though he would allow a civil war before ever giving up his job.
Yet somehow he took a hint, left the oval office, and things worked out. I’m not political and don’t support left or right, but I did think Donald was going to hit the big red nuke button at one point.
He didn’t. But the doomsdayers wrote every day about how he would.
The 2008 recession should have bankrupted the system
The 2008 recession was nasty.
My small business nearly got wiped out. We had to fire everyone. We barely survived. In the space of 48 hours almost all of our customers rang to cancel their orders out of fear. The recession had hypnotized them.
No one thought banks could collapse. They were supposed to be safe.
Through a series of bizarre events the banks worked together, got handouts from the government, and saved the system from collapse.
What was guaranteed to become a disaster that’d wipe out the global financial system became a manageable problem that later led to raging price rises in stocks.
World wars and nukes should have ended humanity
The cold war was scary too.
Read up on it. America or Russia could have fired a nuke at each other. (The nuke that got dropped on Japan wasn’t pretty either.) It could have become a nuke for nuke game until all of humanity became radioactive dust. But it didn’t happen.
Gorbachev and Regan found a way to get along and it stopped the cold war.
No nukes got fired up anyone’s butt.
We’re all still here breathing even though it looked like the end of the world was near and reporting that would have been factual and considered the genuine consensus back then.
The quadruple whammy of present-day sh*t sandwiches
That brings us to today.
The currency market has broken because the US dollar has become too strong. Interest rates are rising at the fastest rate in history.
At some point people won’t be able to afford all their debt. And society has never been in more debt than right now.
America’s debt is something like 300% of GDP!
The fancy financial asset known as bonds is broken too. You can make more money loaning your cash out for 2 years than for 10 years. WTF.
Climate change doesn’t look great either. Natural disasters are on the rise and the climate is heating up. I’ve got more sweat dripping down my butt crack than usual.
The 2020 health crisis after-effects are starting to get felt, too. All the free money, supply chain issues, and lack of productivity are biting us on our sexy noses.
When we turn to social media all we see is “End of America” or “recession fears.”
A doom loop has been created and drongos are sticking to it like bees to honey. They keep screaming the sky is falling in. It’s exhausting.
History as an excuse for the future
These drongos are pessimists.
I call them doom preppers or doom poopers. They’re the ones preparing for the worst, cleaning out their bunkers ready for the collapse of Skynet and for AI to ruin our lives. The challenge is these pessimists use history to justify what’s about to happen.
“These are the signs. History shows this is the answer. Result: we’re screwed.”
The part that pisses me off is they play the role of fortuneteller. But nobody knows what all these negative inputs we’re facing right now could produce.
What makes it worse is 'likes' and social media views incentivize the pessimists to spread BS fearbait in an attempt to make us sh*t our pants in fear.
Well I’m not pooping, poopers.
I see the game. I make a living online. I know what they’re doing. They’re calling for the end of America so they can desperately get more attention that their mommies didn’t give them as children, because frankly, their attitude sucked.
The common pattern that will save America (and humanity)
Let’s not become part of the problem.
What these pessimistic morons forget is that America ain’t gonna collapse. Why? Because whenever these wild problems occur human ingenuity saves the day.
Humans are smart. We can come up with complex solutions. We can work together with unlikely allies if it means keeping our species alive and breathing.
Just because we can’t find answers to present problems like Climate Change right now, doesn’t mean an answer doesn’t exist. Maybe it’s Mars. Maybe it’s heat protection for your windows. Maybe the sun moves away a bit and the Earth gets a little colder so the sweat in my ass crack dries up.
No one knows – and that’s the point.
We’re not supposed to know. We’re supposed to act like grown-up adults and live with optimism. Not run around like adult babies screaming the sky is falling in.
Any dumbass can do that.
Bringing it all together
Some terrible things are happening right now.
But bad things have always occurred and will always occur. The bad things feel worse than they are because social media is lighting a fire under these hot topics and making them seem bigger than reality.
Then people with (often) high IQ and low EQ are using logic and history to call for the end of America – and maybe even the world.
Don’t fall for it. Believe in the future. Realize human ingenuity is the answer to every problem we haven’t yet solved … but will solve.
Stay safe out there peeps. Switch off the pessimistic morons.
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Worse than the need for attention are the writers that are cynically using doom porn to get clicks and $$$
Addendum
Even though there is cycle of creation and destruction and renewal, wherever we may be in this cycle of life, the next step is always already in the process of been created.
We all have a choice of where we want to focus and channel our thoughts, intent and energy.
It seems that there is a majority focusing on the darker side but it also always remains true that change and renewal occurs at the same time and is driven by the few, the minority.
Even in the largest, darkest hangar, one single small candle will illuminate the whole.
The eternal optimist