The big one

Disaster capitalism. Endgame.

I worry. I fret. I stress. I am so fucking tired.

I am a millenial, so these feelings are just an expected and natural part of our daily existence. We just sigh, drink an energy drink and go back to work.

Our entire adult lives have been spent in a society that has veered from one disaster to another. We have not had a day without one existential crisis or another to deal with, so much so that it all just becomes background noise.

Even when it seemed not impossible that Trump might drop a nuke on Tehran and begin the apocalypse, there was barely even a glance.

I think that a part of that mentality might be that deep down, there has always been the assumption that even after a disaster, eventually things would get better. We are always looking for the ray of sunshine after the thunderstorm. That is human nature.

Today however, things feel different. That ray of sunshine has now been monetised. If you cannot afford the sun-scription then sorry chump, you have to live in the dark. Forever.

It has long been understood that after global economic crashes, it is the (already) wealthy who benefit. They are set up perfectly so that when the value of commodities plummet, they can sweep in and buy up vast swathes of it. The book “The shock doctrine” by Naomi Klein explains this better than I ever could. There is nothing that capitalists will not monetise. Even the end of the world.

Today, as i write this in May of 2026, I feel like we are in that position. We are teetering on the brink of a generational crash, and the vultures are circling.

But this time feels different. Where there was always the presumption that things will improve in time (the boom after the bust), Now it seems much more bleak.

The elites have realised that we are at a point of no return. That we have reached a point where a crash will be so deep and profound that there will not be a recovery in any real terms.

So what does this mean? Common sense would say that we should do everything we can to mediate the damage, to make sure that systems are resilient and robust enough to protect ordinary people. To make sure that the essentials of life are not ripped away from folk. Food, water, housing.

Unfortunately, those essentials have long since been put into the hands of those very same elites who will now seek to consolidate their grip on power and the boot on our necks. They own our energy, our water. Our food. Our homes. All of it.

So here we are in the endgame. One last big crash will do it, that is all it will take to allow them to complete their takeover. We will reach a point where those with resources can create their own seperate society, and the rest of us will only exist to service them, with no other option as we will be held hostage by the threat of Elon Musk turning our water off or building a data center on our doorstep.

The ongoing US/Israeli war against Iran is constantly being framed as nothing more than terrible foreign policy, a decision made in isolation that Trump is too stupid or inept to find a way out of.

I do not believe that anymore.

This is a deliberate part of the plan. One last haymaker to knock society to the floor so that the wealthy can rummage through our pockets for loose change.

We need to stand up.

Organise. Resist. Fight.