The IWALLK Essays - 12. Will Hindsight be 2020?

What a great question. Larry Cooper asks…

“Brother Alex , Im curious as to your Thoughts , opinion n Prophecy as to what the future history of 2020 may say . Albeit yes youve stated much of what needs to Be done already , But Will We ?, Or will we / mankind , try to go back to the Old Normal or Actualy CHANGE For the Better , Or Are WE FUBAR . IMO Hope is one thing yet Action is Another . Or Just play the fiddle while Rome & the Titanic Sinks ...The Only Constant Is Change.”

I’ll take a stab at that…

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I wish I were a prophet, so that I had some higher reality to blame when my predictions go wrong. But, ultimately, that’s what they are…predictions…not prophecies. I am a time conscious-savant.

I see around corners, over horizons, through barriers. When I look at a trend or subtle change, my mind skips the working out of the calculus and gives me the clearly determined integration; the area under the function/curve. This is true, even if I’m not asking or looking for it.

Integration is the inverse of the differentials involved. I see the world through its differentials—then derive the integral. Rightly or wrongly. Have at me in the comment if you think I am wrong!

Larry writes: “Hope is one thing yet Action is Another.”

What a brilliant summation of so much that is concerning all of us.

I have already set forth my predictions for this pandemic. A few people listened, most didn’t. And, that is expected. I am so intense, because I am so lost in the noise of your daily routine. But it isn’t about me! (Hard to tell when I’m talking—sorry about that).

It is about what is coming. What is coming is greater than the Biblical plagues, or the current plagues. It is more significant to our species than any other possible issue. Why? Because it IS about our species’s limitations.

We run around like Nature is the problem. It isn't! We’ve separated ourselves from her almost completely before the virus. Stupid monkeys!

Then, what is a normal evolutionary event happens, although facilitated by a bloody market (in China—but it could be anywhere) where humans choose to eat wildlife, instead of leaving it the fuck alone, while blood and feces splatters everywhere in the name of interesting food: A natural virus is introduced into our human world? Well, fucking duh!!

Had we, as a species, not been full of our own hubris about just HOW MUCH we have separated ourselves from the natural world, we would be better angled to handle the situation.

But no, instead, we bring up all the things that have nothing to do with viruses, like ideologies, political ambitions, greedy billionaire grabs (along with their banks, have made more than ever before!). "How are my numbers looking as I make this or that pronouncement?" Cashing in, cashing in, LOSING their souls.

The progression of destruction for the next 12 months is pretty straightforward: Opening businesses that require close contact (nail salons, beauty salons, barbers, massage therapists, tattoo shops, restaurants, etc.), will lead to second, third, and forth waves of viral infection. But it isn’t that simple.

The waves bouncing back and forth need tighter scrutiny. What equipment works and what doesn’t?, where is the virus in public places?, who is immune—if anyone (and it looks like people can be reinfected)?

TESTING: Americans don’t get the idea that being asymptomatic means you are the MOST dangerous carriers of all, on, and on, and on…… There should be dirt cheap tests funded by the federal government as a wartime extreme production, that every American takes every day. THEN, things could be qualified and restricted more objectively.

We put millions of young men to work digging ditches after the great depression, we made a million items to be sent over seas for fighting men in WWI and WWII. The federal government has NO OTHER JOB than protecting the public!

The presidency or leader of the Senate’s job security is absolutely NOTHING compared to the people they supposedly represent and protect.

Let me say this, once and for all: A TRUE PRESIDENT (representative of the 330 MILLION Americans) would not even bring up his election during this kind of apocalyptic period—it would be a non subject. He would be entirely devoted to the task at hand.

Instead we have an impotent, flaccid, petty, two-digit IQ, racist, pedophilic, self-absorbed coward who will do anything to steal a second (third, forth, fifth ??) term, and turn the world into a cesspool of dripping, violent, unrestricted putrid, ideological venom.

But I have an even darker prediction. Personally? I think Trump will be come infected with Covid-19 (it’s not smart of me to say this, since the Secret Service will come looking for those who make such pronouncements once it’s happened).

I think Pence will be infected too. This doesn’t mean they die. The hope is that they do die (frankly, since it would save millions). The more realistic thing is that they recover. And, I’ll make another big pronouncement about that: They would be unstoppable then. Trump would get another term, as the hero who lived through the pandemic. And he would not give up the presidency after that second term. BE SURE OF THAT!

On the other weak, disabled hand, no matter who is the opposition to Trump, if that person wins (probably the dumbass, Biden), he will be coming in late as the public sees it. And Trump will not make the transition easy. Trump has made it a goal to excoriate Obama in the past. He will be sure to leave as much chaos as possible for any successor in the future.

It isn’t really about a stupid, but extremely devoted, populace. That’s a given for about 25-30% of white, conservative, male, American voters—too stupid to think for themselves and more than happy to have Trump’s retardation think for them.

Okay so that gets us an estimate on the next election. I don’t think it will be decided on the handling of the pandemic. If that were the case, Bernie would be redirected into the winning democratic primary and then presidential election. Things typically associated with socialism are THE ONLY WAY OUT of this, as we will see. Cash your $1,200 check first before you object!

I haven’t forgotten Larry’s inquiry, BTW. I have however, come to the realization that no amount of money given back to taxpayers can do a single thing, if there is nothing to BUY with it. If you have a chicken and I need protein, I will attempt to buy it with a $20 bill. But, if NO ONE has protein, you will make that chicken more than its weight in gold. And I can’t afford gold. You eat the chicken, and I plan on ways to kill you and take your chickens. Let’s say…

The food system will break down, as I have illustrated and provided plenty of evidence for. Once food is uncertain for the people who aren’t usually food insecure anyway (you all thought that was okay, until you’re own freezer began to lighten up?), civil unrest will begin. When your kid asks why she can’t eat tonight, your attitude will transform—guaranteed.

And remember the American Civil War was only a short time ago—relatively speaking (1861-1865). It took 100 years longer for black people to get rights, and even for women to vote!

The South, drenched in Spanish moss and sweat tea as-it-is is still chasing down black people and shooting them then relying on the general public to forgive the red-neck shooters. The North does not look kindly upon that (having lost OVER 300 THOUSAND YOUNG MEN to fight against the fantasy of slave-run society).

Any major violence will FIRST happen between North and South states, but not as regional differences, rather as ideological (right vs left) issues. Left vs Right will be a confusing guerrilla war until the nuclear stockpiled warheads come into the formula.

When THAT happens all bets are off.

Meanwhile, the nations outside the US sphere of influence will adjust accordingly. Canada will draw to the side and remain unaffiliated, anything to not align itself with the destructive policies of the US. Mexico will be dealing with their own extreme infection rate (having ignored it for too long, as we are seeing now).

There will be other countries that have largely solved the problem. But the US will not look to them or work with them. And, millions more will die.

In all, by the time two years have passed at LEAST a million Americans will have died. I *SO* hope I’m wrong with this!

When five years have passed, the US will be the equivalent of a third world nation. A petty dictator named “Trump” will bathe in the poison waters of “absolution.” China will be the only REAL superpower left. That will not be acceptable to the putrid Trumpian rulers on the Americas.

And then - once again - nuclear warfare will become the major threat. That’s what it always boils down to. They will destroy all life in a nuclear exchange, or they will turn around and join forces with China. We, who have long since died from the virus or social prescriptions thereof, can shout out as ghosts…

LOVE was the answer. It was the cure. It was the vaccine. LOVE was the solution. LOVE was what made life worth living. Helping one’s neighbors, family and friends was in every way superior to fighting them for existence or political points.

Personally, I would look down from my heavenly cloud and applaud. But we all know that will never happen. We are doomed. Is that the answer you were looking for?