I never saw anything like this before I bailed out of the System and retreated to life in flyover country, long ago. I had inhabited the world of science before I saw that science had been corrupted, and went on strike. I had been looking at a post doc at Sloan Kettering in New York City. No thanks. And this was well before the plandemic had caused the cities to collapse into what Naomi saw and describes here, even among the elites.

~Basil

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/11/no_author/among-the-rich/

Among the Rich
Lost Confidence, Welling Shame

By Dr Naomi Wolf

I stepped back into Manhattan and Brooklyn last week, down to the city from my life in the deep upstate woods. I was revisiting the world of privilege that had ousted me in 2021, and that had been so confident and even smug right up until and into the “pandemic.”

It’s haunting, what that world seems like now.

I know some readers must be thinking, Why have compassion for, why even bother with the fates of, wealthy liberal elites — those who aligned for the past three years with a million lies, and who only grew wealthier and more status-secure as a result of the depredations of the recent past?

I hear you.

But I feel the need, as a witness to this dark time, nonetheless to describe what I saw. When an empire’s elites lose confidence or all sense of purpose, history reveals that it is hard for that empire to survive. And the collapse of confidence I saw, may show a movement in the life of the nation away at least from the complete madness and denial that has gripped this world since 2020. ......