Thank you for taking the time to respond. One thing I like about Substack is that brilliant people are willing to share their knowledge with those of us who are less gifted / less able to put all these puzzle pieces together. I have learned one thing, and that is to believe the exact opposite of what the MSM wants me to believe.

I have taken "The Crash Course" over at PeakProsperity.com over a decade ago so I understand the importance of Peak Cheap Energy. Also, I have spent some time over at SuspicousObservers YouTube Channel. I share the belief of Suspicious/Observers that cyclical, near extinction level events, are visited upon Earth every 12,000 years or so. I believe another is going to hit us in a few decades, and that the PTB know this and have built their massive underground "hidey holes" in an attempt to escape what is coming. What they don't want is a bunch of "useless eaters" interfering with their escape when the time comes. They don't want the masses trying to blast their way in when they finally realize what is afoot. Easier to thin our numbers dramatically now, so we are less of a threat later. I might be all wet with this theory, but like you, I concluded a while back the only reason smart people continue play a game that they know is unsustainable is that they know "something" big is going to change all the rules of everything in the very near future. Therefore they continue to dance while music is playing, perhaps in part for their own amusement, and perhaps in part so the masses stay distracted until their fate is sealed.