We are a self-absorbed, indulgent and disrespectful society. One that is being propped up by a monetary policy which simultaneously devalues our personal assets. Our national managers are trying to buy our way out of a crisis, which was caused by unrestrained credit and spending. We continue to want to pay our debts with credit. The whole country is involved in a Great Ponzi Scheme.

Smart money moved to commodities, but no asset or investment will be protected from the societal dislocations which must inevitably follow a corrupt, ignorant and uneducated Federal Administration. Skeletons and ghosts try to reassure us that there is plenty of fat to go around. But there isn’t.

We need a day of National Recollection. A day in which everyone pauses for reflection. What are the motives of our actions? Why are we doing what we are doing? Do we understand that we are consuming resources for inessentials?

Do we not see that the accumulation of money drives us to evil? And there are no limits to this evil. And no end to the rationalizations and falsifications offered in defense of evil. Everyone of us must get his house in order. Everyone of us must realize that the party is over. We are living in a Red Zone at a Red Time.

If we do not develop a New Materialism, the Red will liquify before our eyes.

– Raphael O’Suna, Haiku