I wrote a novel called The Madness wherein I explore what happens when the universe takes over and corrects what is unnatural and out of balance. What we see around us in human society is all perverse, and becoming more so every day as we apply increasing amounts of invented resources to push the balance of nature further from the center. In time, nature will correct us. That is what Newton’s Third Law of Motion teaches: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Like Newton’s Laws of Physics, natural laws govern the universe. They cannot be broken, but they can be temporarily overcome by applying resources. Flight is an example. A plane can overcome the law of gravity by applying physics to temporarily allow flight, but eventually the Law of Gravity demands that the plane return to the ground. We have created a complex, misaligned, and unsustainable existence that is becoming increasingly out of balance. As the resources, like debt, are increased to prevent balance and sustain our façade, we will begin to experience the acceleration of undesirable events. Foolishness is like the interest on debt, the burden of it grows heavier the more of it you use. It breeds more foolishness and feeds upon itself.
Debt, taxes, and money do not exist outside of the human experience, they are unnatural. Dogs, deer, or muskrats don’t have debt. Grass and trees don’t have taxes. We invented it to gain benefits we don’t deserve, and enslave others through an unsustainable model of interest payments and taxation. Globally the amount of debt we have burdened ourselves with is overwhelming. There is a Proverb that teaches, “Just as the rich will rule the poor, so the borrower is slave to the lender.” In Hebrew, that word, translated as “slave,” means the lowest of the slaves.
Similarly, national governments are unsustainable, largely because leaders are invariably undisciplined and only exist by taxing the people or assuming debt to grow their power and control. The reason for this is that it is the nature of elite peerages to seek control over their population and grow their power base. Inevitably they appeal to the avarice and sloth that resides in our DNA, which in turn leads to borrowing money to influence people to vote for them. Either that, or they tax their populations unnaturally to fund wars in the hope of growing their power.
Things like debt, taxation, insurance, medical and recreational drugs, institutional education, social programs that promote dependence and weakness, single motherhood, and large cities are all examples of unsustainable structures. Eventually they will crumble, as natural law requires that the ever-increasing demand for resources to sustain and control them will inevitably become exhausted.
We refuse to discipline ourselves, and since we seem incapable of voluntarily managing our debt, infertility, aggression, and political greed, the crash is coming. I don’t know if it will be next month, next year, or five years from now, but eventually there will be an adjustment. Pressure can’t build up forever. Sooner or later, an earthquake or volcano provides destructive relief. The same principle applies to economics, politics, and human relations. What I do know is that all of the elements are in place, and any world event might trigger the eruption.
There is an old wisdom that says the bigger they are, the harder they fall, and pride goes before destruction. That principle promises that when the world does finally collapse, it is going to be a very bad time. I suggest that we prepare for it. The pressure gauge is in the red.