A lot will happen in 2025!

  Experts warn that the power grid across much of the nation, especially in parts of the Southwest, are vulnerable to major winter storms like the one in Texas in 2021 that killed more than 250 people. Many of us have experienced a power outage at one time or another. Most of the time the duration of the outage is measured in hours, maybe a day, and in rare instances – a week or more. The outages also tend to be localized and repairs happen quickly or power is “borrowed” from a nearby utility or network and rerouted to the affected area. The experience is usually a frustrating inconvenience and most hospitals and critical systems have backup power to get through the outage. But what if…? What If The National Grid Fails? It’s never happened in the United States, but some countries have had widespread power outages affecting most of their territory. Russia’s cyber attack on Ukraine’s grid in 2015 knocked about 60 substations offline, leaving 230,000 people in the dark. It w...

Desperation does not announce itself. It settles in. Societies do not surrender freedom because they are persuaded to do so. They surrender it because, over time, ordinary people begin to feel that every available option costs too much, takes too long, or carries too much risk. That condition has a name. It is desperation. Desperation is not panic. It is not chaos. It is not collapse. It is the slow normalization of stress, insecurity, and resignation. Life continues on the surface. People go to work. Children go to school. Elections still happen. The language of rights and freedom remains intact. What changes is what people are willing to tolerate, and what they stop expecting from the future. If you want to understand why societies decline, start with a simple question: can the average person still plan? Not fantasize, not speculate, just plan. Can he reasonably expect that hard work will produce stability, that honesty will not ruin him, and that the rules will be applied in somethi...