Whatever has happened to Australia’s ABC News? Have they just recognised something which is intrinsically ‘real’ as actually being… ‘real’?
Fresh from living in an alternate reality over recent years, the ABC, which used to be affectionately known as ‘Auntie’, has just now revealed a glimpse of awakening, with the piece linked below. Or is it that thinking about being on the threshold of an equally looming New Year, with nary a plan or even a clue as to how to deal with it, has driven them to a point of distraction…
The next step is of course, pure panic.
To set the scene, here is how the story dramatically begins…
I don’t know what I expected. Not this. I blame the robots. I blame the penguins.
The economy of 2025 has challenged people’s certainty.
A permacrisis. A flurry. Contradictions and causation, chaos and change.
Markets are at record highs, but it doesn’t feel like a party because so many people aren’t invited.
Wait, hold on — the World Trade Uncertainty Index is higher than it was during the COVID-19 pandemic or the global financial crisis. And gold is at record highs as well, up 67 per cent in a year!
That’s what people buy when they fear the world will fall apart.
Exceptional work, actually. It seems to have captured the moment precisely. Read on…
Certainty in the Rearview Mirror as 2025’s Economy Goes Wild – ABC News Online – Dec 29, 2025
I want to say so much more, but time is pressing and I must move on. Although I will leave this thought…
The situation covers not just Australia but the whole structure of Western Empire (mostly a ghost town now, but still living in the minds of certain delinquent villains in certain countries, still spoiling to continue the despoliation of the rest of the world). And even Australia carries some of that guilt from its efforts toward domination among smaller island nations in the South Pacific. The West faces a complete breakdown of its civilisational structure in the near future, unless it changes tack from the direction in which it is headed. There is no place for dominant, privileged, or ‘special’ nations in the modern world. We either sail along together in harmony, equality and mutual respect, the way of BRICS, in fact, and of other, mostly Eurasian organisations but organising also in other parts of the globe, which cover all important aspects of human collaboration, or we sink into a place I have no desire to describe here.
But it does look like the whole world must undergo a period of dark times, hard times, a time of rearrangement and reformation before we reach such an equilibrium. I hope we make it.
Not Something Else 
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