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A Boring Dystopia
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Depends. Can the galling regime in Iran motivate a Shiite revolution across the world and can they do gorilla warfare from tunnels in Iran's mountainous regions for a long time. And distrupt the flow of oil sufficiently thus causing the us dollar to collapse and thus the global markets along with it (Rothschild banks USD as international reserve currency etc etc).
The us is distracted so China might take the opportunity to take Taiwan. That will herold in the end of the consumer driven economy enjoyed by the western world cos trade with china drives everything.
When markets and quality of life collapse this bad u either get a populist revolution (eg Hitler, Stalin, etc) or the government starts an economic rejuvenation project (war driven economy).
The economy is essentially just a function of how effective a population is at turning resources into product. Wealth concentration has got so heigh we are approaching the point that people can no longer consume the GDP. Thus u need a product sink else the economy stops. Thankfully the war driven economy already proves an excellent resources sink (war itself). Orwell predicted this yet nobody listened.
We might get to be the ones to witness the death of liberty, but then again the pots boiling so slowly their is little chance we will know when that happens. Who's to say the final blow to liberty hasn't already been dealt and we just can't see it yet.