Dystopia is in the eyes of the beholder. What is it like? Look around the USA at the squalor and wealth and political indifference to the whole, only catering to a fringe. Consider disaster response on Maui after the DEW drops. Maui is a member of the United States. But it is thought by the super rich to be a perfect place for ending Dystopia. The plutocrats are using the government to clear cut Maui of poorer humans so luxury resorts can take their place.. Utopia Maui -Erewhon then.
Let us start Dystopia with "civilization" in contrast to "culture." Athens erecting her long walls and consolidating public worship of the Sky God in the Acropolis is late in history but represents the rise of the Polis, Greek civilization. Berdyaev writes-In modern times, he says: “the hierarchical subordination of the material to the spiritual is inverted. … All energy is concentrated outwardly: that is the change from ‘culture’ to ‘civilization.’ All the sacred symbolism of culture dies.”
Later he writes-[F]aith in the ultimate political and social salvation of mankind is quenched. We have reached settlement-day after a series of centuries during which movement was from the centre, the spiritual core of life, to the periphery, its surface and social exterior. And the more empty of religious significance social life has become, the more it has tyrannized over the general life of man. … The world needs a strong reaction from this domination by exterior things, a change back in favour of interior spiritual life, not only for the sake of individuals but for the sake of real metaphysical life itself. To many who are caught up in the web of modern activities this must sound like an invitation to suicide. But we have got to choose. The life of the spirit is either a sublime reality or an illusion: accordingly we have either to look for salvation in it rather than in the fuss of politics, or else dismiss it altogether as false. When it seems that everything is over and finished, when the earth crumbles away under our feet as it does today, when there is neither hope nor illusion, when we can see all things naked and undeceiving, then is the acceptable time for a religious quickening in the world. We are at that time… .
Many of the people I read are optimistic in their pessimism, Vote X, Vote Y, combining in a fixed and fraudulent election to elect the Not Messiah Barabbas as ruler. Barabbas was, according to the New Testament, a prisoner who was chosen over Jesus by the crowd in Jerusalem to be pardoned and released by Roman governor Pontius Pilate at the Passover feast. Of course US voters of the several classes, granted 70% at least (not existing on EBT, Welfare, and stale bread crumbs,) have money in banks or pensions or stocks, savvy folks, educated in cunning like old peasants with a sharp eye on returns do not vote according to any true interests they might have. Indeed I never am clear WHAT people vote for but a mass media fiction seen from a distance, a putative Savior, or a perhaps in despair with lips moving in silent prayer for the ROI the “lesser evil.” Yet their government also does not exist on bread crumbs but borrowing. The blindness regarding the Debt alarms me, but not them. At the end of FY 2023 federal debt is “guesstimated” to amount to $32.69 trillion. Thus far, on 2023-09-01, the federal debt is $32.84 trillion.
This figure below is wider in scope contemplating total debt.
https://usafacts.org/data/topics/government-finances/debt/obligations-and-national-debt/total-government-debt-held-by-public-federal-sl/ utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ND-StatsData&msclkid=3f735c92ea3f1e0fbeae386a617a30a1
And this figure for Ukraine is the downpayment for the NWO before Maui. Maui aid numbers come next. Since the war began, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research institute. The historic sums are helping a broad set of Ukrainian people and institutions, including refugees, law enforcement, and independent radio broadcasters, though most of the aid has been military-related. Dozens of other countries, including most members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union, are also providing large aid packages to Ukraine.
Total aid to Maui since Lahania fire? FEMA says Biden Harris Administration Provides $3.8 Million in Assistance for Hawaii Residents in Wake of Devastating Wildfires. But $75 billion for Ukraine.
Outside the bubble of wealthy, protected elites that generate the statistics and the "news," the global economy is completely, totally neofeudal--and so is the American economy. What does neofeudal mean? It refers to a two-tiered socio-economic system in which an aristocracy owns the vast majority of the wealth and collects the lion's share of the income, and uses this financial dominance to buy political and narrative dominance.
In a neofeudal arrangement, the machinery of governance protects and enforces elite dominance. Cartels and monopolies have free rein to price-fix and exploit, tax revenues flow freely to cartels, elite organizations such as family trusts get tax breaks, and so on.
In other words, "the market" is rigged and the government maintains the status quo.
Toiling away to enrich the aristocratic owners of capital are the serfs and peasants, who own a tiny shred of income-producing capital. Their primary assets--the family home and vehicles--are actually income streams for the wealthy who collect the mortgage and auto-loan interest paid by the serfs.
The core dynamic in neofeudalism is the already-wealthy increase their share of the wealth, and everyone else sees their meager share diminish. https://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html
https://confoundedinterest.net/2023/09/06/bidenomics-101-hand-to-mouth-61-of-americans-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-with-unsustainable-debt-levels-up-19-4-under-biden-50000-u-s-stores-likely-to-close-by-end-of-2027/