The Invisible Court’s Verdict: You Are Hereby Exiled to Digital Siberia

November 10, 2023

by Charles Hugh Smith Of Two Minds

As in the Gulag it replicates, the innocent are swept up with the guilty in a disconcertingly unjust ratio.

The human mind is not particularly well-adapted to polycrisis: we struggle to adapt to the drought, then the earthquake knocks down the village walls, then the tsunami pounds what was left, followed by the epic flooding, then the hurricane batters the survivors, who witness the volcano erupting and wonder what they did to anger the gods and goddesses so mightily.

Now put yourself in the shoes of those tasked with governing / leading the traumatized, overwhelmed masses. If you call a public meeting to hear what the masses reckon are causes and solutions, you find a near-riot of vociferous wrangling over the equivalent of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin: all sound and fury, signifying nothing.