Follow up continues on my latest post threads about war:
🧵 Is Civil War Coming to the West?
A quick breakdown of why the unthinkable is becoming thinkable 👇
1. Social glue is dissolving.
Trust is gone. Shared values are rare. Social capital — the stuff that holds society together — is collapsing.
2. Digital tribalism is real.
Filter bubbles, identity politics, and algorithm-driven echo chambers have split society into hostile camps. Online war is spilling into real life.
3. Economic rot runs deep.
Post-2008, the West papered over the cracks with debt + consumption. Now inflation, deindustrialization, and global de-dollarization are biting hard. Expectation gaps = revolutionary fuel.
4. From nations to fractured tribes.
Western societies are no longer united. Competing identity groups are fighting over shrinking resources — and it’s getting violent.
5. No faith in leadership.
People don’t trust the system. Leaders won’t (or can’t) address the crisis. Collapse feels less like a risk and more like a timeline.
6. What would a civil war even look like?
Urban vs. rural. Ethnic lines. Infrastructure targeted. Systemic failure triggered. Chaos multiplied.
👉 The conditions that once made the West immune to civil war — wealth, stability, common identity — are gone or going fast. What’s rising in their place is... combustible.
Don’t ignore the trendlines. They're not abstract anymore. ⚠️
I deal with that topic in my bitcoindollar book PART V in analyzing where the bitcoindollar system stands in Ray Dalio’s Big Cycles “Empires, Cycles and Bitcoin: Charting the next Monetary Era”.
Can #bitcoin and the #bitcoindollar system avoid that? 