Excellent read. And this may be the only way to salvage *something* resembling a civilization.

"The country is falling apart, and the billionaires and political hacks running the show are selling inadequate solutions. Linear treatments to exponentially growing problems.
And this is why between 30% and 44% of Americans depending on the region support outright secession — an issue thought to have been fully resolved 150 years ago."

https://andrewmtanner.medium.com/fourth ... 67a5d50df7