Collapse Chorus Credibility Is 'All-in':

The collapse chorus won't shut up about how horrible everything is going to be soon (TM).  Here is David Duke's website posting a hysterical prediction:

http://www.davidduke.com/general/the-financial-meltdown-is-coming_18957.html#more-18957

"I used to think there never would be any one big crash as the whole tottering edifice of American corruption, waste, incompetence and greed came tumbling down. Now I’m not so sure. I think 2011 is going to be a very fun year for White people to watch, even if it’s from under a bridge as we grill up a possum over a campfire."

So in one year we are all going to be starving and homeless.  I am sick of this kind of bullshit.  Let's make this simple.  If white nationalists are wrong about the impending collapse of America they should never be allowed to speak about any other topic ever again.  To be this utterly wrong means they have no right to an opinion on any other issue, ever.  By mixing in these ridiculous pronouncements of imminent doom every two or three days, it's obvious they have lost their minds and no longer live in the real world.  Whatever good ideas the far right has will have to wait for some saner party to adopt them, a party no longer mixed up with the ridiculous lunacy the far right always manages to incorporate.

Let's be fair though.  If the far right is correct and the world really is about to end within the next year (or maybe to suit the Mayan calender it will be 2012?), we should apologize to them when that cataclysm comes and admit we should've listened to them when we had the chance.  Then they will all have bragging rights for all time that they predicted the total collapse of the world first.  Unfortunately, since just predicting the collapse of the world with no time left to prevent it or preserve ourselves is nothing but mental masturbation, all the far right can gain from being right is bragging rights.  They stand to lose all credibility  if they are wrong.  For such a fantastical gamble, they have staked everything on the chance to tell the rest of us 'I told you so' after the collapse has already come and gone.

I don't want some pathetic 'collapse' scenario like the stock market will go back down to 6,000, or foreclosures will go up, or the American government will have to default on various debts, or any other bearish scenario.  White Nationalists are predicting the imminent demise of the entire nation: civil war, lawless 'clans' roving around a post-apocalyptic America, starvation, homelessness, etc.  Nothing is too bad for the far right to say it isn't going to happen any minute now.  A bearish economy, a ten year recession, some sort of repeat of the 1970's or 1930's, fine.  America has survived it before and can survive it again.  Neither decade was the death knell of America and ultimately Americans were fantastically richer in 2000 than they were in 1900.  So I don't want to hear the far right pointing to some sort of sagging stock market or negative GDP growth and say 'See, I told you so!'  It's either Armageddon or nothing for these braggarts.  They have stated that the whole pile of cards is coming down, that we will face a 'complete meltdown,' that we're going to be 'flushed down the toilet,' etc.  No metaphor is dramatic enough to explain what is about to happen to America.

Also, I don't want any weaselly cop-outs like "Well, the Collapse is bound to happen, and soon, but nobody can predict when."  I don't want the people who have been predicting the collapse of America 'any second now' to say ten years later that their predictions are still accurate because the collapse is bound to happen sooner or later.  By that logic no assertion can ever be falsified.  This is the end of the line.  If the economy ever really rebounds out of this recession, if there's a peaceful transfer of power from the Democrats to the Republicans next election, if everything in the next few years looks as calm and peaceful as any other portion of US history, then the Collapse Chorus has no right to turn around, bunt the deadline a few years further ahead, and say well now the collapse is sure to come, even though we were wrong then.  This is their one last prediction.  If wrong, it should forever stain their thinkers, their beliefs, their political fortunes, until the end of time.  People have no right to be this mistaken and pay no price for it.  The only possible way the Collapse Chorus can avoid being Lunatic Imbeciles at this point is if, in the next few years, our entire country really does fall apart into the 4 horsemen of famine, plague, war, and death.  All other scenarios, all other possible futures, from a painful recession to booming prosperity, all equally disprove the Collapse Chorus forever.

Meanwhile, in the real world, people are making real predictions about what will be going on in 2011.  For instance, Star Wars, the greatest movie series of all time, is coming out on blu-ray.  That's great news.  George Lucas and Co apparently haven't realized yet that America will just be a sulfurous crater ruled by roving cannibals by 2011, and therefore no one will be able to purchase their new blu-ray Star Wars box sets.  Poor Lucas, so far behind the times.  Not only that, but the Scientific American article predicting the advent of driver-less cars sure does look ridiculous.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=self-driving-audi-automobile

"In September a driverless Audi TTS will speed to the top of Colorado's Pikes Peak at just under 100 kilometers per hour—that's right, no driver. It is an early step toward a robo-car that can drive itself, perhaps better than you can.

The World Health Organization projects traffic fatalities to be the third leading cause of mortality worldwide by 2020. And drivers themselves are responsible for 73 percent of these deaths. So automakers are looking at ways they could make cars safer by taking driving out of human hands. Self-driving cars could offer other benefits: TNO, an international research firm based in the Netherlands, says that they could reduce the time lost to traffic jams by up to 50 percent, and reduce CO2 emissions and fuel consumption by 5 percent."

Silly me.  Here I am thinking that this fall will be the beginning of a new age, where young people no longer die due to car accidents, where traffic jams are a thing of the past, where kids can visit their friends or go to school without inconveniencing their parents, where people no longer have to walk a long distance after parking because the car can park itself and come get you when you call, where drunk and high people will no longer imperil themselves or others, where everyone can chat on their phones or do their makeup just like they always wanted while driving.  But due to the Collapse Chorus, I know better.  Instead, the economy will plunge so far that the dollar won't be worth anything, and we'll all run out of oil, and we'll have to chop our cars into scrap metal to repay our debts to China.  How fortunate I am to know the age of self-driven cars will never come, because we're about to return to nomadic buffalo hunting over the next couple years.

I guess we'll never get to read the conclusion to the Wheel of Time saga, Memory of Light, because that's slated to be published in late 2011.  By then we'll all have forgotten how to read because of the collapsing education system, and all paper will have to be burnt to keep us warm for the coming nuclear winter.

Why should I care that we have revolutionized the solar power industry by discovering how to capture both heat and light, and only have a few remaining kinks to work out?

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/25971/

"The device could be designed to send waste heat to a steam engine and convert 50 percent of the energy in sunlight into electricity--a huge improvement over conventional solar cells.
The most common silicon solar cells convert about 15 percent of the energy in sunlight into electricity"

 Even at high temperatures, the photon-enhanced thermionic converter will generate more heat than it can use; Melosh says this heat could be coupled to a steam engine for a solar-energy-to-electricity conversion efficiency exceeding 50 percent. These systems are likely to be too complex and expensive for small-scale rooftop installations. But they could be economical for large solar-farm installations, says Melosh, a professor of materials science and engineering. He hopes to have a device ready for commercial development in three years."

So sorry, Melosh!  In three years the sun is slated to go supernova, according to White Nationalists, so you may as well abandon your work now.  Why do anything, why work, why even eat?  The collapse is happening so soon that all anyone can do now is wait for it with bated breath.  Since the Collapse Chorus is sure the population is going to be reduced by 90%, it's not like we'll need a replacement for fossil fuels anyway.  There will be plenty to go around for the 'Elect,' the 'True Believers', whom God's hand will spare, because their prediction of the Collapse was right.

How like a doomsday cult the far right has become!  While everyone else is looking forward to coming movies, music, inventions, and opportunities, the far right looks forward only to fire and blood.  They can't wait for the world, or at least America, to be destroyed, and they slaver over it daily in their communications to one another.  This is not a movement deserving of support -- moral, financial, political, or military.