Quote from: BitcoinFX on June 22, 2013, 12:39:30 PM

Quote from: xavier on June 20, 2013, 11:55:00 PM

Well I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but anyway.

The world is in a serious serious mess. I don't think anybody understands, or will admit, HOW bad things are now (but they will soon). Even the more enlightened on these forums. The problem is, when you realize that the last 10, 20, 30 years - even more - have not been normal, you have to realize that there is no normal anymore. Markets of all nature have been propped up by governments everywhere. Markets are at the root of modern day capitalism, which is the systematic process that allows 6 billion humans (which share 99% of their DNA with a chimp) to exist together peacefully on earth. What governments have been doing in recent history is not normal and is not right. It appears that now we are at the beginning of the end of this "phony capitalism". It sounds almost out of this world to be talking about things like this.

How will the end look like? I really don't want to find out. I guess it's normal to fear the future - but, when the present looks this bad. It's almost better not to think of it. Capitalism has been the driving mechanism for human society, progress and prosperity in modern history. It is this driving engine that is now about to fail completely.

At the very minimum, I think every good thing that we have taken for granted in our western lifestyle - and there are so many things that it's almost impossible to imagine how we would live without them - will soon come under question. At the maximum, we are looking at total social collapse in all countries, anarchy and war never seen before on this planet. It's my opinion that every one of us will feel the effects of the coming economic and social meltdown. What is coming could easily be worse than anything seen before in modern history. The only comparison we have is the 1930's or early 1940's .... well, things can get alot worse than that.

What did we all do to deserve this? Nothing. We just had the misfortune to be alive on planet earth during this deeply troubling period.

The world is starting down the barrel of a loaded gun right now. Every human being is on the verge of having his/her society and social fabric completely destroyed and (taking an optimistic view about the future) re-written.

I really hope something good comes out of all of the pain and suffering that is about to arrive on our doorsteps.

Not sure what good can come from posting this message of doom here on the forums. I guess I'd like to be proved wrong.

A pessimist is never disappointed.

It's obvious I'm missing something here because nobody ever can predict the future. And that has to be a good thing. This post is about as pessimistic as it gets; I have to admit. I apologize for that.

What is the optimistic point of view? I guess, there's a crash, some temporary chaos and then things quickly return to normal (hopefully with new, more integral politicians), except that maybe we all have a lot less wealth. Still, less, or even zero, wealth is better than having negative wealth (debt) which is all we have now. I guess things end up better in this case.

Probably there are many difficult things coming on the horizon, but probably also there are many good things to come out of it as well. Given all of this, I guess it's still better to be alive in 2013 than in 1213.

/end optimism, return to doomsday predictions Huh