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2025 Year In Review

+ 2026 Predictions

2025: The Year the Masks Slipped

If 2024 cracked the illusion, 2025 tore it open.

This was the year when power stopped pretending it was benevolent, neutral, or even rational. Across politics, media, technology, and global affairs, institutions abandoned the last remnants of moral language and replaced it with something colder: efficiency, dominance, and narrative control.

Three truths became unavoidable in 2025:

1. Authoritarianism Stopped Whispering

Strongman politics no longer needed coded language or plausible deniability. Loyalty tests replaced competence. Intellectual friction was treated as treason. History was rewritten openly, not quietly.

What had once been described as “norm erosion” revealed itself as something more direct: a belief that constraint itself is illegitimate.

This wasn’t new—but the denial ended.

This topic was explored in December's blog: A King Like Trump: Herod the Great where the myth of the “necessary ruler” fully replaced the idea of shared governance, in the case of Trump, and for Herod, seeking legitimacy from the people he ruled destroyed him and left the indelible mark on his legacy of the brutal, corrupt king who tried to kill the baby Jesus.
Trump and Herod
A King like Trump: Herod the Great

2. Capitalism’s Shadow Stepped Fully Into the Light

By 2025, neoliberalism could no longer plausibly describe itself as an economic system alone. It revealed itself as a psychological operating system—one that trains individuals to self-optimize, self-blame, and self-erode while power consolidates upward.

Marketing, politics, and identity collapsed into a single feedback loop:

Consume → perform → obey → repeat.

Trumpism was no longer an anomaly. It was recognized—by supporters and critics alike—as capitalism’s shadow made flesh. One stripped of civility, decorum, and restraint and operating without apology.

The Monsters We Choose to Be

3. Consciousness Became the Real Battleground

2025 wasn’t primarily about elections or wars. It was about perception.

Who controls:

  • attention
  • memory
  • fear
  • meaning

Book bans, algorithmic suppression, AI-generated mythmaking, and the quiet erasure of inconvenient voices all pointed to the same conclusion:

Reality itself is now contested territory.

And yet—something else happened.

While power centralized, awareness decentralized. People didn’t suddenly agree, but many began to recognize manipulation as it was happening.

The Counter-Movement No One Could Fully Contain

While power centralized, awareness decentralized.

2025 saw a quiet but unmistakable rise in:

  • whistle-thinkers rather than whistleblowers
  • cross-disciplinary truth tellers
  • elders refusing to be dismissed
  • autistic, sensitive, and highly perceptive minds finally naming what they see

People didn’t suddenly agree—but they began to recognize manipulation when they felt it.

This recognition—uneven, fragile, incomplete—may prove more important than consensus.

2026: The Year of Fracture—or Awakening

2026 will not be a year of stability.

It will be a year of choice.

Because it will be a year of overreach—and reaction.

Here are the patterns already locked in motion:

Prediction #1: Power Will Overreach—Openly

Authoritarian systems always do. The pressure to maintain narrative dominance will produce increasingly absurd contradictions, harsher loyalty demands, and more visible incompetence.

This will wake some people up.
It will radicalize others.
There will be no middle ground left to hide in.

Historically, authoritarian systems do not collapse because they are challenged.

They collapse because they overextend, as we are exploring in my podcast Wisdom Guardians.

As 2026 begins, we are already seeing signs of this dynamic:

  • escalating executive claims unconstrained by Congress or international law
  • rhetoric of regime change treated as casual policy discourse
  • open talk of territorial expansion, annexation, or “running” other nations
  • the normalization of militarized solutions to complex political failures

Whether every threat materializes is almost beside the point.

What matters is this shift:

Power is signaling that it no longer recognizes meaningful limits.

This is not merely “Trump being Trump.” It reflects a deeper fracture: when institutions fail to impose boundaries, leaders test how far reality can be bent before it breaks.

History is clear on what follows.

Such overreach does not produce submission alone. It produces counter-forces:

  • diplomatic isolation
  • internal resistance
  • fractures within alliances
  • destabilization that cannot be fully controlled

The irony of domination is that the harder it grips, the more instability it creates.

Empire, Resources, and the Old Justifications

Drilling down a little deeper on this long established, destructive, historical pattern, the renewed language of regime change and territorial ambition also resurrects an older logic—one the modern world claims to have outgrown.

Resource control.
Strategic necessity.
“Stability.”

These arguments have justified interventions for more than a century. When leaders speak openly about oil, minerals, or strategic territory while dismissing sovereignty and law, they are not innovating. They are repeating a script whose consequences are well documented.

What has changed is not the logic—but the willingness to state it plainly.

That candor may feel powerful in the moment.
It is also how nations drift toward pariah status: not because they lack power, but because they abandon legitimacy.

Prediction #2: AI Will Accelerate Myth—or Meaning

AI in 2026 will be used in two radically different ways:

  • to mass-produce comforting illusions
  • or to reveal patterns humans were never meant to ignore

The danger is not that humans will merge with machines.
The danger is that we will do so without consciousness, repeating domination at a higher speed.

AI isn’t replacing humans.
Rather, humans are surrendering authorship of their inner world to AI and the doctrine of silence commanded by corrupted systems.

Those who treat AI as an oracle will hollow out.

Those who treat it as a partner—within ethical bounds—may sharpen perception rather than surrender it.

Prediction #3: Burnout Will Become Political

Exhaustion is no longer personal—it’s systemic.

By mid-2026, withdrawal, refusal, and non-participation will increasingly function as forms of resistance. Not everyone will protest. Many will simply stop performing obedience.

That quiet refusal will frighten power more than spectacle ever did.

The Choice That Remains

2026 will ask a single, uncomfortable question:

Do you want comfort—or consciousness?

You don’t get both anymore.

The age of plausible deniability is over. The age of spectatorship is ending. What comes next depends not on heroes or rulers—but on whether individuals reclaim their perception, their imagination, and their moral spine.

As I wrote in Sapience: The Moment Is Now:

Survival will not belong to the strongest, the richest, or the loudest—
but to those who can still see clearly while others beg to be told what to believe.

2026 is not the end.

It is the threshold.

January 6: The Unresolved Wound

Animation from January 6, 2022 blog

This blog is published on January 6 for a reason.

Five years ago, a sitting U.S. president incited an attack on the Capitol to overthrow an election he lost. The event was broadcast, documented, and partially prosecuted—yet never fully resolved at the level that matters most: accountability at the top.

Instead:

  • consequences fell unevenly
  • narratives fractured
  • responsibility blurred
  • and justice became selective

When a society fails to metabolize a rupture, it does not disappear. It grows in the shadows and migrates, taking new and more dangerous forms.

Today, we see its echoes:

  • detention without transparency
  • disappearances into bureaucratic systems
  • the erosion of due process for the “undesirable”
  • historical amnesia about our own concentration camps, burn orders, and sanctioned erasures
  • war in Venezuela and Iran as well as threats to Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and the rest of “the Western Hemisphere.”

The comparison to past authoritarian regimes is not a claim of equivalence.

It is a warning about patterns.

Power without accountability behaves similarly across history—no matter the flag.

What will you choose?

Compliance?

or

Pattern-Recognition and Reality-Grounded Action Based on Facts?

Rachel Maddow explores one of the US’s most shocking historical executive orders to round up innocent American Japanese and incarcerate them in concentrate camp-like conditions for years during WWII.

Feature Archetypal Animation

Music 1: Masked Reality Echoes 03:10 StabilitySlow tempo, sustained strings, deep synth pads, occasional dissonant piano chords, and subtle percussive pulses create a suspenseful, thought-provoking mood. No solos.

Music 2: Awakening Echoes 03:10 StabilityA slowly evolving, atmospheric electronic piece. Features ethereal synths, deep sub-bass, and subtle percussive textures. Harmony is minor-key, creating a contemplative yet hopeful mood. Tempo is slow, building gradually without explicit solos.

Music 3: 2026 Crossroads 03:10 StabilityA pulsing, low-tempo electronic beat anchors a spacious soundscape. Synthesizer pads swell with a sense of impending tension, occasionally punctuated by a high-pitched, ethereal melody. No solos. Overall mood is introspective and slightly ominous, building to a hopeful resolve.

Music 4: Threshold of Consciousness 03:10 StabilitySlow, pulsing synth pads create an ethereal yet foreboding atmosphere. A minimalist electronic beat underpins a low, resonant bassline. No solos, harmonies are dark and expansive. Mood is contemplative, unsettling.

Supplemental: The Cost of Honesty

Why the HONEST Child Becomes the Family PROBLEM | Scapegoat Trauma

Honesty is not only punished in dysfunctional families, it is punished in dysfunctional and corrupted systems throughout time and history. Watch this video and when it talks about the dysfunctional family system, substitute dysfunctional society, culture, civilization.

We learn how to stay quiet and not rock the boat in our families. Then, we repeat the pattern in our culture and society. The more people punished for being honest, the fewer people who are willing to speak when families, cultures, civilizations take that fatal turn over the edge of reality, which always happens when lopsidedness is not fixed.

Do you see the pattern repeating again?

Do you think we are doomed?

We are when we stand by and say and do nothing.

Here is a knowledgable, intelligent man who once wore the mantle he inherited from his family of dysfunctional beliefs and silence. He became aware of the lies he had been fed by his family and the systems they inhabited.

Listen to his story.

Then, tell me if you think we are still doomed?

This Ph.D. Physical Therapist and Pastor tells how he was taught to believe lies that were meant to keep him unconscious of what is really going on around him. Lies meant to hide from his conscious ability to reason and detect patterns not to see how the authority figures around him are stealing, demeaning, or betraying anyone considered to be below or beneath them.

I have seen this cruelty in action in my own life through my dad’s life and my mother’s. Both had fathers who were pastors. Both spoke up about violence they had experienced in their homes. Both were label the Black Sheep of their families for being honest about what happened to them. Both were punished for it. Both persisted in being honest despite the tremendous cost of connectivity and acceptance by their families. Both suffered lifetime of feeling alone and unaccepted.

These are terrible costs to pay, and when speaking up and being honest in workplaces and social places means you will be fired from your job for speaking truth to power or targeted by unhinged people who threaten to kill you and your family for speaking truth to power… well, you see why so many people choose silence.

And you see that after 5,000 years of civilization, why we have not evolved very much since organizing into super sized collective systems that must find ways to cooperate and get along and share resources.

I write about this stuff in my book Sapience. I even identify Narcissism as an underlying feature of most modern cultures and economic systems. I trace how this characteristic got favorably selected over thousands of years to become the dominate social trait that is awarded in most modern economic systems and societies.

Here is an expert in narcissism describing what happens when a narcissistic person has not checks placed on them by their structures and systems.


3 TERRIFYING Signs the Narcissist Has Turned Into Pure Evil || Dr Ramani || Learn how to recognize when a narcissist crosses the line from manipulation to truly destructive behavior Discover the psychological and emotional warning signs that indicate a narcissist has become dangerous Understand the patterns of cruelty obsession and control that escalate when narcissists act without conscience Explore why extreme narcissistic behavior often stems from unchecked ego insecurity and fear Learn how to protect yourself emotionally and physically when faced with a narcissist showing these terrifying traits This video explains the critical red flags of a narcissist turning evil and how to maintain boundaries safety and emotional resilience

Evil is real and the darkness of narcissistic people who flipped into the grip of their unconsciousness is destructive. These are people who take pleasure in being cruel to others. They are people who actively try to destroy other people and the world. They are individuals who act like a psychological poison you and the world that they have given up living in as a human being.

Dysfunctional families and systems protect Narcissistic people. They become flying monkeys helping to carry out the daily performance of evil and cruelty. These monkeys are the people who have learned to keep quiet, to not notice the patterns, and to most definitely not state or say the obvious thing: This is wrong.

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Alan Watts had a gift for turning the world upside down—only to reveal that it had always been that way. He reminded us, again and again, that reality is not divided into neat moral boxes. Light needs shadow. Order needs chaos. Saints need sinners.

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The Price of Forgetting: From Hiroshima to Heatwaves

August 5th is the day before Hiroshima.

What happens when history is erased, the past is politicized, and the present burns?

The world changed on August 6, 1945—and since that day, every August 5 has become a kind of psychic limbo. A reckoning. The last breath of innocence before the mushroom cloud.

That’s how I always feel on this date.
Like we’re holding our breath in a forgotten waiting room of history—blind to what came before, numb to what unfolds now.
The silence before the sirens.
The moment before the blast.

Today—August 5, 2025—we are back in that limbo.

But this time, the sky is not split by one bomb.

The destruction is slower, more dispersed, less cinematic—yet no less final.

This time, it’s heatwaves that break records.
Rivers that dry to dust, then overflow in torrential floods.
Forests that burn unchecked, fueled by massive rains that feed new vegetation—only for it to dry, then ignite, as heatwaves and droughts return like the ticking hands of a doomsday clock.

It is rights that vanish. Books that disappear. Truth that crumbles like ash.

This time, the bomb isn’t dropped.

It’s embedded.
Woven into the system.
And we are its architects.

I. The Myth of the Clean Bomb

The atomic bomb was sold to the American public as a necessary evil. A weapon that saved lives by ending the war. That version of reality still persists—scrubbed clean of children’s shadows burned into concrete, of survivors coughing up blackened blood, of generational trauma encoded in irradiated cells.

The lie of the clean bomb persists because it serves empire. It allows America to remain the hero of its own myth.

And that myth is still being weaponized.

Only now, it’s turned inward—against its own people.

Today’s warfare is economic, psychological, algorithmic. Yet the logic remains unchanged: justify atrocity with a false binary—us or them, freedom or chaos, purity or infection.

Today’s “them” are immigrants.

They are scapegoated for the damage inflicted by the billionaire class—that paltry 3% who not only own the means of production, but also control the distribution of goods, truth, and even hope. They’ve spent decades engineering a system where they get more—and everyone else gets less. Less pay. Less power. Less time. Less life.

And now, as the American Empire fractures under the weight of its own excess, the billionaires are panicking.

The moral calculus never changes. Only the delivery system. And the scapegoats who bear the cost of the sins committed by the ultra-rich—men who molest truth as easily as they molest children.

Protected by wealth. Worshipped by media. Shielded by spectacle.

II. The Climate as the New War Zone

While politicians posture and billionaires build bunkers, the planet keeps the receipts.

July 2025 was the hottest month in recorded history—for the third year in a row. Massive wildfires are displacing thousands across the Pacific Northwest and Mediterranean. Crops are failing in Africa and Latin America. Major cities are approaching wet-bulb conditions too dangerous for human survival.

But it’s not just weather. It’s the slow-motion collapse of the world we were promised. A world built on endless growth, fossil-fueled prosperity, and the illusion of safety for the “civilized.” That world is burning down, and too many still think we can shop our way out of the flames.

The climate crisis isn’t just about carbon. It’s about power. Extraction.

It is a system that treats the Earth like a warehouse and people like units of productivity.

It is war by another name—waged on the body of the planet and the psyche of the people.

It is something I write about in Sapience: The Moment Is Now.

III. Erasure as Strategy

As the temperature rises, so does the campaign to make us forget.

The Project 2025 blueprint isn’t just about rolling back regulations or gutting federal agencies. It’s about destroying institutional memory. Banning books is not just censorship—it’s conditioning and control. Erasing queer history, Black history, labor history, climate truth—it’s all part of the same project: obliterate the past so the present can be reprogrammed.

And it’s working.

What happens when a nation forgets not just Hiroshima, but Tulsa? Not just slavery, but Flint? Not just the Dust Bowl, but Paradise, California?

Such a nation becomes unmoored. Untethered. Easily manipulated. Easily distracted by pleasure, products and propaganda.

Memory is not nostalgia. Memory is resistance. When we forget, we become malleable. Controllable. Willing to call cruelty “order,” or fire “progress.”

IV. What Is Worth Remembering

Today, on August 5, I am remembering not just the blast—but the silence before it. The illusion that everything was fine.

That’s where we are now—algorithmically embedded and entombed in illusion. Trained in the art of forgetting. Forgetting that we are space-time beings of staggering magnificence—sentient sparks capable of perceiving, feeling, and dancing with the mystery of life. One of the rarest awakenings in the known universe. And yet… here we are: sedated by spectacle, indentured to the machine, clocking in for our slow extinction under corporate rule.

(A truth explored in depth in my book, Sapience: The Moment Is Now.)

It is a myth has never relied on fact. It relies on meaning. And meaning is forged in remembrance.

So let us remember:

  • That humans made the bomb—but we also made peace.
  • That fire can destroy—but it can also purify.
  • That forgetting is dangerous—but remembering is defiant.

Let us remember the land before it cracked. The sky before it choked. The soul before it was bought by billionaires and oligarchs.

Let us remember that we are not separate from the story. We are the storytellers.

And right now, the story is breaking.

But so are we.

And maybe—just maybe—that’s where the fire of renewal begins… like the mythical firebird.

Call to Action:

🌍 This week, remember something real.
Tell someone a story about your ancestors. Read a banned book. Visit a site of historical pain and power.
Because remembrance is not passive. It is protection.
It is protest.
It is a portal.

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🌀 Supplement: Echoes of Empire — From Galactic Collapse to American Decline

In my book Sapience: The Moment Is Now, I trace how empires have risen and fallen across human history in patterns eerily familiar to those imagined by Isaac Asimov in his Foundation series. Asimov’s Galactic Empire, like Rome, like Britain, like America today, collapses not from a single blow—but from accumulated rot: arrogance, bureaucracy, inequality, and the silencing of truth.

What Asimov understood—and what history confirms—is that humans rarely respond to collapse with wisdom. We cling. We deny. We search for scapegoats. We double down on failing systems out of fear of the unknown.

Empires don’t just fall because they’re conquered.
They fall because they forget what they were for.
Because the story that once united them becomes hollow—and the people stop believing.

Sapience explores this moment as not just political, but mythological. The American Empire is in decline, and the question is not if—but how we respond. Do we fracture into chaos, or awaken into something wiser?

That, as Asimov might say, is the true test of a civilization’s soul.

Foundation — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

🌀 Supplement: The Now Scroll

My Now Scroll minis are myth-infused micro-essays or 3-minute soul jolts that confront the collapsing empire in real time. Each one distills a powerful truth at the intersection of myth, psyche, and political reality, using poetic insight and piercing clarity to expose the deep structures of control—whether it’s cults, fascism, or the subtle ways we co-create our own enslavement.

They aren’t just commentary—they’re living scrolls that remind the reader to stay awake, to question the spectacle, and to reclaim their inner authority in a world designed to numb and domesticate human consciousness. This one is relevant to today’s blog.

🌀 Supplement: Sapient Survival Guide

Part mythic handbook, part political manifesto, part psychological field guide—this 62-page survival document is a razor-sharp reckoning with the world as it is… and a rally cry for what it could be.

The Sapient Zombie Survival Guide is not your average prepper’s pamphlet. It’s a call to those who still feel, still think, still care—those not yet devoured by the hollow hunger of authoritarianism, consumerism, or despair. It charts the psychic terrain of a country in collapse, exposing how propaganda, greed, and mythic forces have turned millions into the walking dead.

But it doesn’t stop there.

This guide arms readers with 10 survival strategies rooted in ancient wisdom, archetypal truth, and modern resistance. It invites the reader to awaken—not just politically, but mythically—and to ride the dragon of consciousness through a world set ablaze.

With poetic fire, biting satire, and unflinching honesty, this publication lays the foundation for the volumes to come—The Houses of Wreckage and The Dragon Riders’ Guide—offering not just survival, but transformation.

Sapient Survival Guide
Part mythic handbook, part political manifesto, part psychological field guide—this 62-page survival document is a razor-sharp reckoning with the world as it is… and a rally cry for what it could be.

Check it out on Mixam.

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How to Survive the Sadistic MAGA Zombie Apocalypse

Because good people need a guide when the undead wear suits, wave flags, and drool power

Introduction

In the first weeks of the Trump regime, I called it: The MAGA Zombie Apocalypse. Back then, it felt like satire—a dark metaphor for a rising tide of authoritarian groupthink. But five months into Trump 2.0, the metaphor is no joke–we are living through not only the MAGA Zombie Apocalypse, but the Sadistic MAGA Zombie Apocalypse.

This point was made most powerfully by Noble Prize Winning economist on May 21, 2025: Paul Krugman.

The Last Word | May 21, 2025 with Paul Krugman | What we are talking about is sadistic zombie behavior… these are ideas that should be dead but it keeps shambling along eating people’s brains… (to listen to what I am referring to… click this link and fast-forward to minute 23 of the video)

And Paul Krugman is not the only award-winning economist raising alarm bells on what Trump and his renegade regime is doing to America’s economy and the global economy.

The images above are from Richard Wolff‘s latest video warning of the impending dangers of Trump’s unhinged ideas. This links to his video. Below is his bio.

A lifelong professor of economics, Richard D. Wolff is a well-known critic of contemporary capitalism and the leading proponent of an alternative economic system based on Worker Self-Directed Enterprises (WSDEs). He is the host of Economic Update, and has been interviewed on several popular television programs that include: Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill Moyers’ Moyers & Company, The Charlie Rose Show, and Up with Chris Hayes. As the founding director of Democracy at Work (d@w), Wolff’s publications that advocate for making the workplace democratic include articles in Truthout.org, The Guardian, Common Dreams, as well as his recent book: Capitalism's Crisis Deepens The videos you'll find here also advocate for WSDEs as a key part of moving forward from the current model of capitalism to a new and better economy. For more information, please visit our websites: http://democracyatwork.info http://rdwolff.com

Another award winning economists who is raising Red Alerts on Trump and his MAGA regime is Jeffery Sachs. Both Wolff and Sachs are saying the same thing and that is the USA is an empire in decline. The new rising empire is rising even faster because of Trump and his shenanigans.

Who is the new empire?

Jeffrey David Sachs (/sæks/ SAKS; born November 5, 1954)[4] is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University,[5][6] where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable development and economic development.[7]

Why it is China. Why else are political figures (on both the left and right) demonizing China? They need a boogeyman because they don’t know how to fix or stop America’s decline as the dominate super power in the world.

Listen to the experts. I am just the messenger of their insights and warnings of this moment in time.

Zombie Ideas Are the Vectors of the Zombie Plague

But, we are not there any more and no matter how hard Trump and his MAGA zombies wish it to be… America is not going backwards in time (this universe just doesn’t work that way). However, what we do have going on now is a full-scale infection of zombie ideas. Listen to Noble Prize Winning Paul Krugman describe to Larwance what a zombie idea is. In economics, this is an actual term used to describe destructive economic decisions. Paul Krugman doesn’t mince words, nor does he call what Trump and gang are doing populism. He hits much closer to the core of what is happening right now to ordinary, working class Americans. He calls it the work of sadistic zombies.

This isn’t just “authoritarian drift,” it is: sadism.

Sadistic MAGA zombies don’t just crave power—they relish in cruelty. They cheer at book bans, scream at school boards, and fantasize about revenge. They’ve been taught to believe that empathy is weakness and democracy is rigged. They’ve been fed a diet of fear and conspiracy until all that’s left is a shell of resentment wrapped in a red hat.

And while this madness unfolds in public view, a darker vision looms—one I explore in my book, Sapience: The Moment Is Now. It’s a near-future world where the zombie virus of unchecked greed and ignorance has finally run its course. Nation-states collapse under the weight of climate disaster and political rot. Mother Nature strikes back with rage: fire, flood, famine. But the super-elite? They’re safe. Sequestered in their billion-dollar Multis—fortresses of luxury, profit, and surveillance. Built on our backs. Funded by our suffering. They don’t just survive the apocalypse—they monetize it.

Surviving the Sadistic MAGA Zombie Apocalypse

So the question remains: how do good people survive this sadistic MAGA zombie apocalypse?


How do we navigate a world where cruelty is a badge of honor, truth is malleable, and the future has been auctioned off to the highest bidder?

Survival is no longer about hiding from the undead. It’s about refusing to become one.

Survival Guide

1. Don’t Try to Convert the Infected

In Sapience, I explore how mass manipulation hijacks apperception—the brain’s power to weave new experiences with old mental models. MAGA zombies have had their apperception hacked. They see cruelty as strength, lies as truth, and their oppressors as saviors.

You can’t decode a mind that’s been corrupted by a system that rewards delusion. So stop trying to “wake them up.” You’re not dealing with the uninformed—you’re facing the intentionally misinformed. Conserve your energy. Strengthen your own reality instead.

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2. Fortify Your Moral Immune System

In a world unraveling—where sea levels rise while civility sinks—what protects us isn’t bunkers or bitcoin. It’s moral clarity. Sapience argues that individual awareness must evolve faster than the systems collapsing around us.

Survival means knowing what you stand for when everything else falls. Read real history. Nourish empathy. Reclaim archetypes of wisdom, guardianship, and creative rebellion. Build an inner compass the zombies can’t corrupt.

Fortify Your Moral Immune System

3. Find Your Survivor Tribe

The collapse is not coming—it’s here. As I describe in Sapience, nation-states crumble into irrelevance while the ultra-elite shelter in fortified Multis, profiting from engineered scarcity and division.

Meanwhile, the rest of us must rely on each other. The uninfected. The awake. The aware. Find your people. Your “Wisdom Guardians,” as I call them. Artists, truth-tellers, scientists, street-level organizers, and kitchen-table philosophers. Form pods. Trade skills. Share hope. The future will be rebuilt by tribes of sapients who remember how to feel and think at the same time.

Find Your Tribe

4. Use Humor Like a Machete

Zombies don’t laugh. That’s your advantage. In Sapience, I argue that imagination isn’t a luxury—it’s a survival mechanism. Satire, sarcasm, irony: these are weapons against despair and disinformation.

Laugh at absurdity. Call it out. Use your wit to dismantle the systems that want you numb. If authoritarianism is a theater of cruelty, then humor is your standing ovation for sanity.

Zombies don’t laugh.

5. Stop Playing Their Zero-Sum Game

The MAGA horde, like the billionaires they worship, believes in scarcity. If they have rights, we lose ours. If they get help, we suffer. In Sapience, I trace this zero-sum thinking back 5,000 years—to the roots of empire, hierarchy, and manufactured division.

Survival means refusing to play this game. The future depends on a different model—abundance through awareness, not extraction. We build systems that care. We dream bigger than the dystopia sold to us.

Stop Playing Their Zero-Sum Game

6. Prepare Like It’s Real—Because It Is

The sadistic MAGA zombie apocalypse isn’t just metaphor. It’s psychological warfare, ecological collapse, economic sabotage, and civil decay—all rolled into a carnival of chaos. In Sapience, I call for preparedness not just in supply—but in spirit.

Yes, stock the pantry. But also stock your consciousness. Build mental models that help you adapt, imagine, and act. Prep not just for survival—but for post-collapse purpose.

Prepare Like It’s Real—Because It Is

Where Are the Best Places in the USA to Prepare & Weather All This Out?

Not many Americans can afford to move to another country. However, there might be some places in the US that can weather the coming chaos, economic collapse, tariffs, etc. etc. better than other places.

I asked ChatGPT this question.

And I asked it to factor in the impact of MAGA’s Big Beautiful Bill, Trump’s Big Beautiful Tariffs, and Elon’s Big Beautiful Cuts of the Federal Work Force.

Wait, you say, what exactly do these fired federal employees have to do with my economic wellbeing and security? Will we really miss them? Surely, federal employees weren’t doing anything that affects me?!

This is a massively important question — because most Americans don’t realize how deeply their everyday lives rely on federal workers and civil service infrastructure, often until it’s too late.

When Elon Musk and Donald Trump — directly or indirectly — push policies or appoint people who gutted, defunded, or demoralized the federal workforce, the effects don’t look like chaos at first. They look like delays, breakdowns, confusion, and crises without answers.

These cuts of federal employees are not only being done by Elon’s DOGE teenage team of hackers, but also Trump-era cabinet secretaries who are doing everything they can to hurry up attrition, hollowing out, or outright hostility to entire departments to get them to resign. These efforts combined with Elon Musk’s privatization fantasies and support for anti-government ideology, have real, painful consequences — especially during a high-stakes summer.

Here’s a powerful rundown of what Americans will miss, lose access to, or suffer from due to this sustained war on the federal workforce and public service infrastructure:

🌀 Weather and Climate Disasters: You’re on Your Own

  • Fewer NOAA and National Weather Service meteorologists, leading to delayed or downgraded storm warnings.
  • Less support from FEMA during floods, wildfires, hurricanes, or tornado recovery — especially in rural and low-income areas.
  • Climate data suppression or manipulation, making disaster preparation harder for local governments.

🔥 Emergency Response & Disaster Relief (FEMA, NOAA, USFS)

  • Slower response times to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and heat waves, which are growing more frequent and intense due to climate change.
  • Fewer trained staff at FEMA to process aid, rebuild communities, or coordinate rescue operations.
  • Weather forecasting delays and reduced storm tracking accuracy as NOAA scientists are driven out or not replaced.
  • Public lands left unguarded during fire season due to cuts to the U.S. Forest Service.

🥵 Extreme Heat Protections (OSHA, EPA, HUD)

  • No federal heat standards enforced for workers in warehouses, fields, and construction — putting lives at risk.
  • EPA gutted so fewer checks on urban heat islands, air pollution, and water safety.
  • Public housing remains unprepared for heatwaves, with no upgrades to AC, insulation, or cooling stations.

✈️ Travel Chaos (TSA, FAA, National Parks)

  • Fewer TSA workers = longer lines, more delays, and heightened security risks and greater risk of air traffic issues..
  • FAA staff shortages = more flight delays and greater risk of mid-air incidents.
  • National parks overwhelmed, under-maintained, and under-patrolled — risking both safety and ecological damage during peak summer visitation.
  • Passport and visa delays due to underfunded State Department staffing and backlogs.
  • Slower response times for air safety violations or airline consumer complaints.

🍔 Food Safety Risks

  • Cuts to USDA inspectors and FDA staffing mean:
    • Fewer food recalls.
    • Slower response to contamination.
    • More tainted food reaching grocery shelves — especially in meat, dairy, and produce.

🧒 Programs for Kids & Families (USDA, HHS, Education Dept.)

  • Cut summer lunch programs for low-income kids who rely on school meals.
  • Delayed child care subsidies and family health services from HHS.
  • No staff to administer educational grants or summer learning programs — deepening the gap for marginalized students.

🔥 Public Lands and Firefighting

  • Fewer park rangers, firefighters, and wildland emergency responders.
  • Reduced protection for forests, wildlife, and endangered ecosystems.
  • Delays in wildfire prevention programs, increasing the risk of massive summer fires.

🌽 Farmer & Food System Support (USDA, EPA, Labor)

  • Fewer inspections for food safety, pesticides, and agricultural fraud.
  • No support for small farmers as subsidies and conservation programs go unstaffed.
  • Farmworker protection enforcement drops, putting vulnerable workers in harm’s way.

🏥 Health Access and Medical Oversight

  • Cuts to CDC staff and public health departments hamper outbreak tracking.
  • Medicare/Medicaid call centers and case managers are overwhelmed.
  • Less oversight of toxic workplace exposures (via OSHA or EPA), which rise in summer heat.

😷 Public Health & Science (CDC, NIH, FDA)

  • Slower outbreak response and tracking of new COVID, flu, or RSV variants.
  • Cancer trials delayed, new treatments slowed.
  • Fewer food and drug inspections, leading to more recalls and risks.

💼 Small Business and Economic Aid

  • Delays or shutdowns in:
    • SBA (Small Business Administration) loan approvals.
    • USDA rural development grants.
    • Housing programs (HUD) and energy assistance.

🏛️ Justice & Democracy (DOJ, DOL, USPS, Census Bureau)

  • Delayed civil rights investigations, police oversight, and workplace discrimination cases.
  • EEOC, DOJ Civil Rights Division, and labor board staffing gutted.
  • Slower investigations into:
    • Police abuse
    • Discrimination
    • Corporate exploitation
  • Undermines voting rights enforcement in the lead-up to the 2024 election.
  • Labor rights violations ignored due to DOL staff losses.
  • USPS delays worsen, affecting medication delivery, ballots, and rural access.
  • Census follow-up workers slashed, hurting planning, school funding, and representation.

💻 Tech and Infrastructure Cracks

  • Fewer cybersecurity experts defending federal systems.
  • Disrepair in federal IT systems, IRS help lines, Social Security portals, and more.
  • Musk’s influence has led to privatized chaos at agencies like NASA and the FCC — where public-good missions have taken a backseat to private profiteering.

🌐 Digital & Infrastructure Access (FCC, NTIA, DOE, DOT)

  • Broadband expansion stalls, leaving rural and tribal communities offline.
  • Clean energy grants delayed or canceled.
  • Transportation projects halted or badly managed due to DOT understaffing.

👵🏽 Elder and Disability Services

  • Social Security Administration understaffed, leading to:
    • Long wait times for claims.
    • Missed payments.
    • Errors with disability benefits and Medicare.
  • Veterans Affairs delays for medical care and claims processing.

🚱 Environmental Protection Gutted

  • EPA enforcement weakened under both Trump and Musk-aligned deregulation.
  • Polluters operate with impunity in many regions.
  • Less testing of water, air, and soil — disproportionately harming vulnerable communities.

🚸 Education and Child Protection

  • Cuts to Head Start, school nutrition programs, and summer youth employment.
  • Backlogs in child abuse investigations (in coordination with HHS).
  • Less enforcement of IDEA (special education law) — hurting children with disabilities.

🎯 Bottom Line:

Federal workers are the invisible backbone of a functioning society. When figures like Trump and Musk wage ideological wars against “the deep state,” what they’re really doing is crippling the systems that keep everyday people safe, housed, fed, informed, and protected.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 In a Nutshell:

Americans will lose rescue, relief, safety, dignity, and time this summer — not because the government is inherently broken, but because it’s been systematically sabotaged from within. Cuts aren’t just budget line items — they’re broken bridges, burning forests, spoiled food, unpaid claims, and unanswered calls when you need help most.

Economic Hardship Map Due to Trump, MAGA, Musk

Factoring in impacts of the cuts to Federal Workers, Republicans Big Bad Beautiful Bill, Trump’s Rollercoaster Tariffs, rounding up and deporting immigrants (who are the economic backbone Americans stand upon), among other nonsense and authoritarian tendencies of Trump and his cronies, ChatGPT made this map.

It shows the worst, bad, good, and best states to weather the coming economic weather that promises to be very destructive to everyone living in the USA.

Everyone, except for the billionaires who are counting their billions once again thanks to the Republican Prime Directive to Make the Rich Richer!

And this pain that is coming is not short-term. It is how the billionaires are turning You and me into a permanent fixture of their glorious money machine. Unless we rise in numbers they can’t ignore, we are doomed to a lifetime of repetitive cruelty (dubbed efficiency). 

It is efficiency only meant to benefit them! DOGE was the first bite… We the People are the next!

Best and Worst Places to Weather the Sadistic Zombie Apocalypse

🔥 Conclusion: The Path of the Sapient

We are not merely surviving an election year. We’re fighting a mind virus. We’re fighting despair. We’re fighting a worldview that delights in the suffering of others. But we have what they don’t: compassion, clarity, and creativity.

As we navigate the toxic fallout of this mind virus—engineered by empires like the House of Trump, the House of Koch, and the House of Musk. These modern dynasties feed on chaos, feed on fear, and feast on the unraveling of the common good.

They offer fiery distraction, oily decay, and cosmic delusion, packaged as strength, wealth, and genius. But their apocalypse is not inevitable.

What they lack—and what we fiercely hold—is sapience: the rare, revolutionary capacity to stay human in the face of inhumanity.
They burn and extract.
We create and rise.

Yes, the MAGA zombie apocalypse is real—an infestation of cruelty, delusion, and decay.
But so is the Firebird: that fierce symbol of rebirth rising from ash, wings carved from imagination and resolve.

We are not here to be consumed.
We are here to outlast. To outlove. To outthink.

There is no magic savior coming. But maybe that’s the point.

In a world devoured by cruelty and delusion, choosing to remain fully human—aware, kind, imaginative—is the ultimate form of rebellion. In a world designed to dull us into obedience, simply choosing to be awake, compassionate, and creative is an act of defiance.

In Sapience: The Moment Is Now, I argue that it’s time to awaken the archetype of the Sapient Human: one who sees through illusion, transcends despair, and creates meaning even in rubble.

The sadistic MAGA zombies may be loud. They may be real. They may be many. But they are not the future.

This isn’t just resistance. This is transformation.

The sadistic zombies are drooling from their new found power.
The dynastic Houses of Economic Power are roaring as the ticker tapes measuring their richness ticks up and up and up.… like one of Elon’s rocket ships!
But they are not the future.

And, we have all seen what happens to Elon’s rocket ships to Mars!!!

You are!!

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