Covid-19 lockdown day 78 – overnight a new world rises from the ashes (pt 4/4)

If you have been following my previous three episodes, you will have by now a clearer picture of the state of affairs regarding the sectors of industry that have been heavily affected by the lockdown globally. Here in the last section I want to conclude with a few final extra points on the subject. The economic downturn has just begun and may continue for the rest of the year and may even take two or more years to show signs of a decent recovery, if ever. The bizarre fact is that nobody knows for sure. No one can accurately say what this current collapse will lead to, or when it may end. In previous crashes people tried to call the bottom only to find another leg downward ensuing. The stock market and subsidiary platforms are completely irrational at present, like seldom ever before. It is a degree of madness by the looks of it, with bankrupt companies seeing their share price suddenly bounce back up again in value, based perhaps on the Fed printing trillions of dollars in a way that can only lead to hyper-inflation or some equally deadly financial alternative in coming months.

Other strange shifts in the historic norm are happening before our eyes right now too. Imagine a town without a police force. The mind boggles, only because we have never known it to be any other way. But now in the city of Minneapolis, the leaders are actively deciding how to close down their police force for good. Of course, this is motivated by their incompetency, dismal record at crime prevention or fighting, as well as the recent catalyst of another white cop murdering and unarmed black man in the now famous George Floyd saga. Having only ever known a social structure where I can call on the cops when a crime is going down, I struggle to think outside that box, and wonder what the alternative means in reality. How do you have a city without any police? Well, that is what is being discussed in Minneapolis today, in the wake of the lockdown and increased militarization of the police force in USA. Who could have imagined such concepts just three months ago at the start of this whole débâcle. That’s how fast and how big the changes are in our evolution as a civilization today. Entire new ways of policing ourselves may need to be invented. It may provide a field day for AI and the IoT that is occurring in the surveillance state under the 10 000 watchful cameras for example.

Now, there is one obvious sector that I must add to the list of dinosaurs going extinct this year, and that is money. Yes money is going away. I mean of course fiat paper currency, which is not real hard money but more of a promissory note backed by nothing other than military might, and confidence. Currency is going digital as the pandemic weaned us into the idea that paper notes and coins carry the virus. Who would have thought that the very foundation of our existence upon which we all place so much value – the dollar bill – would evaporate under this pandemic scare? It’s enough to make you think that his was all engineered from the start. Now the last vestiges of privacy, our paper bank notes that allowed us to transact without fear of monitoring, will be taken away and replaced with a digital dollar. Most currency is already digital, or just numbers on a screen in your account, but now the final bits of paper can be removed from the system and currency can all go digital. Cryptocurrencies already set the trend. Blockchain technology is now there for all banks and even sovereign states to utilize, having been shown the way by Bitcoin – the original digital currency.

I wonder how long it will take before all notes are reclaimed and central banks issue their digital dollar, or peso or yuan or euro or whatever. It could happen overnight, in a manner of speaking. This year of 2020 will be looked at historically as the pivotal moment when the one world order ended and the new world order began. We are at a pivotal time. It is happening right before our eyes. Who knows, maybe even that restaurant or corner pub you used to visit daily will be a thing of the past. That industry, which was perhaps a crucial foundation stone of your culture and lifestyle since the day you were born, may be gone in a flash, or at least by 2021. That is how fast we are spinning right now, like an engine about to explode, or if we’re lucky, take off into the stratosphere of a new tomorrow, where paper books used to exist along with paper currency, never to be seen again, except perhaps in museums and history lessons on an era now gone and soon to be irrelevant altogether. How fast can you pivot? Will you be able to reposition yourself, or will you too get wiped of the face of the earth like a dinosaur in an asteroid shower, or a Boomer at the turning of an epoch?

That brings us to the end of this topic for now, I hope you gained some insight into the trends. Please feel free to leave a comment or any other info on the subject of collapsing corporations below.

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