Surviving near Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023


  • So what I’m getting out of this is a couple points:

    • Births have been declining, meaning the student population has been declining.
    • College has gotten insanely expensive and unaffordable.
    • The job market no longer guarantees a good job just for having a degree.
    • Federal funding cuts to colleges have exacerbated the cost.
    • Young adults are re-evaluating whether the increasing cost of college is really worth the trouble.

    All this will lead to the college bubble finally bursting (it’s been coming for decades now). Top-heavy school administrations won’t cut their own budgets, so the bust will first harm teachers, students, and quality of education. We will ultimately have a less educated population, which will only further empower the fascists.













  • Balkanization implies a solid geographical split between states, and in terms of the current political and cultural issues, there just isn’t one. Yes there are red states and blue states, but the big cities in red states are extremely blue, and the rural areas in blue states are extremely red; the real divide is between cities and countryside.

    If a second civil war does break out, it won’t be a convenient split like the last one. It’s going to be a lot of fighting within states and cities and suburbs and rural areas, with no clear geographical boundaries.

    (As much as I’d like for the Midwest to be its own country I doubt it’ll happen anytime soon. :) )
















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