Same here. Various groups of people have succeeded in radicalizing a significant portion of the population in a very short time period and the media constantly seems to want to keep pushing people to the brink.
Virginia is starting to look like a powder keg with the government and overwhelming majority of the countries at absolute odds with one another.
My tower is pretty far away from the battlefield, and ivory is a sturdy enough material to survive a good deal of shelling. A civil war would do nothing but benefit my portfolio.
I mean, unless they rise up against me instead of decapitating each other over genders like the media wants them to.
A civil war would do nothing but benefit my portfolio.
Historically/empirically, isn't it more likely that a civil war would devastate everyone's standard of living?
I mean, unless they rise up against me instead of decapitating each other over genders like the media wants them to.
At least the first civil war seems to have very noble causes attributed to it in hindsight, as in being a war against slavery or for state's rights. At the very least, I hope if there is a civil war future historians don't say it was because people were arguing about how many genders there were, JFC.
What really gets me are the people who seem to be all gung ho for it. They seem to be acting like it'll be some mythical purge night where murder will be legal for a few nights, and they're just holding off until that moment when the powder keg ruptures. Then, it seems like both sides seem confident that it'll just be a minor bump and things will be right as rain immediately afterwards, instead of the more historically likely situation that it would economically, culturally, and socially destroy everything in short order. I know I sound like a naive hippy saying stuff like this, but are we really that far gone that we still can't talk things out? That we can't wait it out a bit more or at the very least just have patience? Have we lost our love for our common man? Have we forgotten the terrors of war?
It kind of reminds me of the news stories that seemed to be excited about WWI flaring up, and talking about how it would be a 'quick' war that would last only a couple of weeks.
The plutocracy has relied on divide and conquer for all of history. If the people who are being told to hate each other would focus on the people TELLING them to hate each other, maybe something would change. Not holding my breath on it.