This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Alt-Market.com
The structure of history is held together by two essential and
distinct kinds of links, two moments in time to which no one is immune:
moments of epiphany, and moments of catastrophe. Sometimes, both
elements intermingle at the birth of a singular epoch. Men often awaken
to understanding in the midst of great crisis; and, invariably, great
crises can erupt when men awaken. These are the moments when social
gravity vanishes, when the kinetic glue of normalcy melts away, and we
begin to see the true foundations of our world, if a foundation exists
at all.
Catastrophe occurs when too many people refuse to accept that around
us always are two universes at work. There is the cold, hard reality
that underlies everything. And on the surface is a veil of deceit and
compromise. The more humanity compromises vital truths in order to enjoy
the comfort of illusions, the more mind-shattering it will be when
those illusions fall away. These two worlds can coexist only for short
periods of time, and they will
always and eventually collide. There is no other possible outcome.
I think it could be said that the more polarized our realities
become, the more explosive and disastrous the reaction will be when the
separation is removed. I feel it absolutely necessary to relate this
danger because today humanity is living so historically far from the
bedrock of reality, political reality, social reality and economic
reality that the stage has been set for a kind of full spectrum
destabilization that has never been seen before.