[Crowbob]

This is one of the more profound topics we have yet explored. One thing is for certain: we as a society and as an economy are in transition. The systems we have set up since around the nineteen thirties and during and after the Great Wars were conceived under fundementally flawed ideas. Those ideas being that there would always be economic growth, a strong demand for manufactured goods and that those manufacturing processes would always guarantee the need for labor.

We are seeing labor is clearly no longer in demand. A 60% non-participation rate would normally create enormous social upheavals-and it may still. We established the great social programs such as SS based on false assumptions. The current unsustainable immigration and entitlement messes are surely heading us toward an unimaginable calamity.

I do actually believe this nation is experiencing mass psychosis. It is in denial. It's as if the nation is watching a horror film, comfortably deluding ourselves with the false knowledge that in 90 minutes or so it will be over, the lights will come up and we'll all go out for drinks.