The ruling class, like doomed ruling classes throughout history, has lost touch with reality. From Gaius Balter at gaiusbalter.substack.com:
A group of sinister aliens from another dimension discover a planet with sentient life. The inhabitants are fairly smart and have an advanced culture with great works of art, literature and architecture. They engage in cooperation and competition, and are constantly warring. They seem to need war and strife to thrive and evolve. The sinister aliens want that planet. They want to perform many social and scientific experiments on its inhabitants. The only problem is that the aliens do not function well in this dimension. The only way they can use the planet’s population for their amusement is to transport the entire planet into their own dimension. The aliens happen to have a device which is capable of such a feat.
This is not a straightforward process because the dimension the aliens come from has a different reality from the one the planet is in. In the alien dimension, concepts and ideas are as real as physical objects. Physical objects can also physically change if a new definition is applied to them. A rock can turn into gold if it is redefined as gold. Machines can run without energy and products appear in stores without needing to be produced. A war can be won by determination alone. People can be made to like you by wishing alone. People can also physically change if definitions are changed. A dumb person can be redefined as smart, an incompetent person can be redefined as competent, an ugly person can be redefined as beautiful, and a man can turn into a woman and a woman into a man through gender redefinition. It is a paradise of possibilities.
The aliens activate their device and Earth jumps dimensions in an instant. Then they watch as the population adapts to the new reality. It’s a resounding success for the most part as the majority embraces the new reality and forgets the old. Then the problems begin …
The text above is a plot description for an outlandish science fiction novel. It could also be a description of what is happening to western civilization – presumably minus the aliens and the other dimension.
Setting off nukes gets their attention? [aliens]
Only because of the effects on the universe they know to avoid Manboons like the plague.
Don’t worry reality is undefeated and never going to lose and when it comes back in heat it will be beautiful!
Breaking from the mighty Black Sabbath:
Symptom Of The Universe