COLLAPSE AMERICAN STYLE: The Political Economy of Societal Suicide

“Societal collapse might be an opportunity for extending civilization.” Anonymous

“No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse.” William E. Dodd

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder…. Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.” Arnold Toynbee

“society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole.”
Jared Diamond

“The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation”. Jimmy Carter

As Neo-feudal economists and Neo-reactionary politicians encourage us to ignore all the blaring warning signals, we are rushing headlong toward complete collapse. “Rome was not built in a day”, and it certainly did not collapse overnight. But we might. It is also worth noting, nevertheless, that the average Roman…