Some of the older geezers among my readership may remember a movie called The Truman Show. This movie has become something of a cult classic, as far as I understand it, and was one of those films that showed just how good an actor Jim Carrey really is. For those of you who have NOT watched it (I must confess that I have not), it is about a man named “Truman Burbank”, who lives in an artificially constructed reality, and whose entire life is the focus of the world’s most wildly popular TV show. Every moment of his life was carefully planned out for him, while giving him the illusion of free will – his family, childhood, education, and even his future wife, are all artificially planned out for him.

The world around him is a complete construct. He lives in a town by the sea, that is nothing more than a colossal soundstage, with every aspect of the environment controlled and managed by the show’s producers.

Most importantly, the economy, the society, the whole town around him, are all effectively NPCs in a giant game.

The relevance of all this comes from a conversation I had with my coworkers the last time I was in the office, while we were waiting for a certain sale to come through. (It still hasn’t – long story.) One of the people there remarked how it seems as though everything is taking a long time to come to fruition in the Western economies, and how artificial the current sales environment seems to be.

That sparked off someone else in the room, who said words to this effect:

This whole economy seems like that old movie – y’know, The Truman Show, in which we live in a totally fake economy. If we look around, I can see in Europe the economies are collapsing. In Britain, they reported the fastest rate of job losses in Q1 of this year since the Global Financial Crisis. Inflation is not 3.5%, as everyone reports – it is more like 10-15%. Infrastructure is crumbling, wealthy people are fleeing abroad for less crazy and inhospitable places, taxes are rising, social cohesion is fraying, and yet everyone still goes around pretending as though everything is fine. It is a totally fake economy.

Every single word of what he said rang true. The fact is, we ARE living in a fraudulent economy, wherever you go in the West.

The latest polling data indicate that, even under the supposedly amazing Trump economy, where inflation is supposed to be falling, and output is supposed to be increasing, yet the polling data I see indicate that ordinary Americans feel themselves under increasing economic pressure. Ordinary Americans are increasingly struggling to pay rent, buy groceries, pay basic utility bills, and all the rest. There is a longstanding trope about how most Americans would have great difficulty meeting a US$1,000 unexpected expense – say, medical, or veterinary – related to either themselves or their children.

All of this is before we get to the multiple crises wracking the American body politic – from illegal AND legal invasion of the country, to the severe cultural disconnects that separate the increasingly detached-from-reality urban city dwellers from the suburbs, exurbs, and heartland. This is before we get to the deep loss of trust that most Americans, rightly, have experienced in their government and other institutions of authority.

This is not the picture of a healthy and prosperous society. It is the picture of a deeply sick and dying one.

The picture is no better in Europe. If anything, it is far WORSE. My contacts, and experience with, PommieBastardLande, tells me that is a country on the verge of an extremely violent explosion. The Labour government’s popularity has absolutely collapsed. If the Limeys held a general election today, Reform UK would win a crushing majority – and the Cuckservatives would be consigned to total electoral oblivion.

Think upon that for a moment. The British Tory Party is, by many measures, the most successful political party in the world, if you consider the number of years in which they have held power, within the context of the British Parliamentary system. Yet it has systematically mismanaged Britain so badly, for 13 of the past 14 years, that voters have turned away from it completely.

That is not to say Reform UK will do any better. There is every reason to believe it, too, is nothing more than an extension of the same evil GloboHomoPaedoPharisatanist forces that have brought the West to the edge of the abyss. They support all the same Usual Things that the rest of Clown World does – the Banderastan War, Israel and the Gazacaust, endless NATO expansion, war against Iran in the Middle East, war against China in the Pacific, and so on and so forth.

There is absolutely no reason to believe Reform will do anything to fundamentally alter the decline and collapse of the United Kingdom into a broken and divided country, with significant parts of it ruled over by shariah law.

Indeed, there is a very real and tremendous danger that Britain will become the first nuclear-armed European Muslim nation on Earth – they are likely to fall even earlier than France does, because the French, for all their colossal and manifest moral failings as a race, at least still have a conception of what it means to be “French”. The British, by contrast, are too cowardly and spineless to figure out what being “British” actually means. I have interacted with hundreds, if not thousands, of Britons in my life, and not ONE among that entire lot has ever been able to successfully articulate what “Britain” is.

Things are not much better on the continent, either. My travels in Europe last year showed that Portugal and Italy have exactly the same problems with mass migration, both legal and illegal, that Britain does, though of a somewhat different flavour.

In Britain, the overwhelming problems are Indian and Pakistani Muslims, and who have turned old British cities and towns – Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster, Bradford (where the Pakistani grooming and childhood rape gangs are so prevalent), Birmingham, and large parts of London and Manchester, are all basically extensions of Islamabad, or Dhaka. You will not have to search hard on YouTube to find videos of White Anglo-Saxon Britons walking through parts of London on a Sunday afternoon, to find themselves

In Italy, Portugal, and Spain, the problems are primarily with African immigrants – many, if not most, illegal, and quite happily so – who have turned what used to be some of the greatest cities in Christendom, into Wakandan shitholes. There is not the slightest point in being polite about any of this.

I have not visited France in many years, and will be content to live the rest of my life never going there again. From what I hear, the problems there are with Arab and African immigrants, that have turned several of the outer arrondisements of Paris into alien-controlled no-go zones. The Arab Muslims there happily and wantonly shut down the roads and streets for their Friday prayers.

But none of this comes up in the daily discourse to any great degree. We are all surrounded by this weird sense of unreality, as if, by simply ignoring the problem, it will go away.

It is sort of like that episode of the old children’s animated series, Justice League – I am a big fan – in which the League are transported to this weird illusory world, where the “Justice Guild of America” lives a waking nightmare, trapped in the psychotic dreams of a mutated boy who survived a nuclear apocalypse, and desperately tries to hold on to his childhood illusions:

If any talking head dares to bring up the subject of mass migration in the never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed whore-media, the rest of the presstitutes will frantically shout down that person. And given most of the media-whores are paid specifically to avoid bringing up such subjects in public, it is hardly surprising that most of them do not do so.

There is no mention in the whore-media about how Western economies are actually in dire straits, and how over-indebtedness is bringing Europe to its knees. No mention of the inflation crisis in which government statistics are so obviously fake, and so completely out of touch with the real world, that people cannot figure out how to reconcile 3.5% “headline” CPI, with the actual 10-15% increases in their grocery bills every year.

No one wants to talk about the rapidly cascading crises of homelessness, poverty, and despair, that grip the urban environments in these cities. I get my intelligence from friends who live in some very nice parts of PommieBastardLande, surrounded by Wypipo, and yet whenthey go out out for walks in the streets, even in some of the poshest and nicest enclaves of what is left of heritage Britain, they see the tragic story of modern Britain in the form of homeless people living in tents, begging for scraps every day. They see washed-up, strung-out drug addicts, with diseased skin and broken teeth, listlessly spending their days sprawled on park benches, among wealthy suburbanites who pass them by without a second thought.

The Western world has descended into an air of economic unreality, of an artificial construct that bears no resemblance to the actual state of affairs around them. We are hurtling toward an almighty financial and economic catastrophe, the likes of which the world has never seen.

And no one seems to give a damn.

It all reminds me of the first scene where Dr. Michael Burry makes an appearance, in the brilliant film, The Big Short, where Christian Bale – who, for all his flaws, and they are considerable, plays Dr. Burry superbly – talks about the very specific indicators before the collapse of the US housing market during the Great Depression, which were there for all to see:

If you have not watched that film, make it your task this weekend to do so. When you are done with that, watch the equally brilliant, though substantially simpler and smaller-in-scope, Margin Call, which has some of the greatest acting you will ever see from a truly stellar cast. This scene, in particular, is pure genius:

This mass-delusion bubble in which we find ourselves trapped, is slowly deflating. It has not completely burst – not yet. It will, because it must. There is a hard limit to how much the Western economies can sustain massive money-printing, deficits, debt, and fiscal insanity of this kind. The FUSA is in dire economic trouble – of its own making – which will result in the American government putting about 40% of its expenditures solely into servicing the interest on the debt, by 2033.

Think about what that means for a moment. If 40% of all government spending goes ONLY INTO PAYING INTEREST ON DEBT, instead of on essential services and maintenance of the economy – and there is little, if any, headroom to raise additional taxes, or to expand the economy’s already relatively narrow tax base to raise revenues – then even a minor change in interest rates will be enough to push the FUSA into debt-default.

Yet the markets continue to think of the US dollar as the global standard, and of US Treasury bills, notes, and bonds, as a safe haven, as equivalent to cash.

By the way, it is not at all coincidental that Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible, has pegged 2033 as the likely year of the collapse of the American Empire. It is too overstretched, indebted, and internally divided, to be a sustainable construct. He based his estimate on an historical understanding of the lifespan of fiat currencies, but he himself admits that his predictions are now probably too optimistic.

This Unreal Engine that propels daily life, must crash eventually. There is too much technical debt building up, too many gaps in the code now. But, for the moment, ordinary people continue to sleepwalk through life, as if the inevitable end will not come.