The Paradigm Shift Of 2022
Ryan W. McClellan, MS
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Second, welcome to the paradigm shift. Yesterday was a terrifying display of rage-induced violence. I was on the way home with a friend.
A single car took yet a single second to move when the light changed, and then my friend slammed his hand on the horn for roughly twenty seconds.
Then, what happened next changed my life: all the other cars began to honk, too. Now, in Miami, this is common, but I have never seen such rage, such angst, such anxiety.
Trust me, this has a point to it: we are entering a paradigm shift where frenzied foes and weary eyes are commonplace. I will summarize below.
Welcome To The New Age
After COVID shut down 46 percent of small businesses in 2019-2020, the recession began. We all began to collapse into the hands of inflation, and then along came a spider.
Trump ignored the evidence, whatever side of the coin you may be on, and COVID hit. Small businesses closed; people lost their jobs, and a terrifying virus came to frution.
For a while, roughly a year, we were mandated to wear masks, to maintain social distancing (another way of saying: "Back the f**k up fifteen yards"), and to pray...
Every day was a frightening facade.
We can all recall standing in Publix aisles with arrows indicating which direction to move; we all remember the death toll piling up; we all remember the dawn of death.
You see, fear does something to the human psyche that causes aggression, and after the pandemic slowly came to an end, that anger never truly left.
It left many of us paranoid of marginal facades, paralyzed with fear, and wondering how we will survive. I recall a single article where the body toll was up to the millions.
A home owner, because of her proximity to a local hospital and crematorium, found that they were piling up the dead in boxes next to her home.
"The small was vibrant; I could smell death every second" - Anonymous
We all fell vagrant to death, and though we felt that we had recovered from the pandemic, it left a pale taste in our mouths. It caused a deafening howl of grief.
I say all that to make a point, I promise.
Then 2021 Hit, And Balance Restored
Then, 2021 hit. Small businesses skyrocketed to a 540,000 opening record; the pandemic had ended; the world was back to normal. But the spider we feared had left.
Then came along another spider, curiously named "Biden." Biden is a man whose ends always justify the means, and then came the inflation wars of Ukraine and Russia.
Fast Forward To 2023's Deceptive Grasp
I say all of that to say this: 2023 is going to be much, much worse. According to an article by Thomas Barrabi, the worst has yet to come.
2023 is expected to be the worst year we have experienced since the Cold War.
Now, I say all of that to make a point, one of revolutionary stature: we are falling from grace into a horrible recession rivaling that of the Great Depression.
"The tech industry is dropping by 33 percent this year." - Thomas Barrabi
What This Means For Us
As the stock market plummets as of 2023, and as millionaires predict the worst recession since The Great Depression, we have succumbed to the same thing Reagan said:
"Now, there is no argument between the choice of war and peace. But if you want peace, you can have it, and you can have it in the next second: surrender" - Reagan
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You see, we have begun a fall of 33 percent in stock prices; we have abandoned our sense-of-self; we are falling into yet another Great Depression.
Millionaires are predicting that 2023 will be the worst year since The Great Depression.
Thus, I bring all of this up to make a point: the human race is failing.
I Quote Barrabi
"Eighty-one percent of millennials expect their holdings to rise in value by the end of next year. Conversely, 61 percent of baby boomers see their assets lowering"
When Did The Question Move?
Now, we have to sufficiently ask ourselves: when the did the question move from "we are rid of a worldwide pandemic" to "we are going to lose money?"
You see, I brought all of this up to make a poignant point: we have a shot to fix this.
You see, the more we read articles and watch news channels blistered with cancerous cues of a failing economy, the human mind does what it does best:
"It believes what it hears..."
We have a shot at fixing this, you know. In fact, I am working on a book about this very concept: we suffer by the principle of parsimony: the simplest answer prevails.
The principle of parsimony is the enemy.
If we believe that the economy is going to fail, we succumb to fear. Remember my friend honking the horn? Remember the mentality of those around him, honking as well?
Fear causes us to channel our emotions into rage.
Why This Matters
Backing up to my friend who honked, he has lost money; he has lost in a battle of cryptocurrency, which I personally blame for the failures of the economy.
Thus, his anger is much like those around him, and if we could channel our mob mentality for good, or for use, we would be a much more sufficient society.
You see, just like my friend honking, and being joined by other honkers, we suffer at the hands of conformity. When one car honks, we all join in, almost out of fun.
If we could channel our rage into something productive, we would succeed.
But the human race suffers from a single function: if we continue to trust the world around us for answers (i.e. one car honks, so do the others), we fall short of sight.
The Mob Mentality
When one person honks out of frustration, others join in - almost for fun.
This is much like what we are seeing now: a world where the more we believe that the economy is crumbling, the more likely we are to panic.
Panic causes us to resort to our ethereal roots.
"Let us not sully by our most primitive roots" - Viggo, "John Wick"
If we all believe that the world is falling apart, it surely will.
If We Continue To Honk
We continue to cause rage.
Such is the primitive roots of the human spirit.
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2 年I loved your take on this. I do believe that group think and mob mentality can be used for good.