Mike Adams declares Western civilization a failure, citing collapses in energy, currency, and leadership while contrasting this decline with the rising powers of China, India, and Russia. He attributes America's downfall to post-WWII complacency and mocks current leaders like Biden and Trump, labeling Trump an "accelerant" hastening structural destruction. Ultimately, Adams argues that only decentralization can ensure survival amidst impending crises, urging listeners to stockpile potassium iodide, silver solutions, and freeze-dried food via his store to prepare for nuclear events or global war. [Automatically generated summary]
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Western Civilization Is Failing00:03:24
One of the most astonishing realizations in what we're seeing right now geopolitically is that Western civilization is a failed civilization.
That when we look at the, what it has become, you know, it, it started off with a lot of promise and, you know, the United States of America is one of the more promising components of Western civilization.
And it was founded with positive intent and some really amazing breakthrough principles.
And yet.
It has utterly failed.
It has failed to function as any kind of advanced civilization.
It's failed to achieve progress.
It's now a civilization in decline.
This is true across Canada, Western Europe, Australia, et cetera.
All of Western civilization is actually in a state of collapse.
Energy collapse, education collapse, industrial collapse, monetary collapse.
The rule of law is collapsing.
Leadership is collapsing.
IQs are collapsing.
I mean, we are seeing a crash of Western civilization.
Whereas the other world civilizations, notably Chinese civilization, Indian, Persian, Russian, Mesoamerican civilization, even, most of these other civilizations are, in fact, thriving and they are advancing.
China, in particular, is advancing with an incredible degree of innovation.
Technology, industrial might, etc.
Even scientific advancement and patents, and you name it.
Iran is capable of great advancement also because its people are incredibly intelligent, but it has suffered under Western economic sanctions for almost five decades.
And that has held Iran back.
And Russia has also suffered in a similar fashion for a shorter period of time.
I mean, it's only been around since 1991, and that was economically devastating.
For them, the fall of the Soviet Union.
Many years tried to find their way.
But now Russia is rising as an economic power, an industrial power, a military power, technology power, etc.
And clearly, energy is one of the things that is bolstering that entire civilization because, of course, modern civilization runs on affordable energy.
But the US and Western civilization is in a rapid decline.
And this is not reversible.
So there will be no saving America.
So it's funny when they say, oh, we have to pass the Save America Act.
Yeah, too late.
There is no saving America.
It's already done.
The culture is already too far gone.
It is a failed experiment.
And if you think about it, what is it that caused it to fail?
And it was, I think, a victim in many ways of its own success.
So America was too successful in the post World War II era.
It was so successful at innovation and industry, manufacturing, Etc., that it became incredibly wealthy and dominant in the world.
It's Cool To Be Dumb00:05:48
And then over generations, the American people became lazy and privileged, complacent, and then before long, stupid.
And I remember even being in school, from let's say middle school and high school, especially, as I was obviously top of my class intellectually, always got the high scores, college entrance.
Tests, you know, everything else.
Even in my day, I was mocked for being too smart.
And it was cool to be stupid.
You, you know, you had to, you had to be a dumb, stupid person with, you know, C grades or failing grades to be considered cool.
And if you were a straight A student like I was, then it was, you know, you were, you were not considered to be a cool person or anything.
I mean, it doesn't matter to me, by the way.
Because I was multidisciplinary, you know, I ran track, I played football for one year.
Uh, I you know, I had a lot of extracurricular activities, so I wasn't like put aside in the nerd group.
But the nerd group, and I knew all the nerds because I was also on the math club, and we would go to math contests, and I actually won like gold medals in math and things like that.
It was wild.
Um, I knew all the nerds, and uh, I got along with them, I thought they were great people because they were smart.
But they were ostracized by the rest of the culture of the school.
And you see, that has happened.
The reason I mention that is because that's happened on a nationwide basis.
It's not cool to be smart in America, it's cool to be dumb and stupid.
And if you are a person who knows things, then you are condemned and you are censored.
Whereas if you're a person who's stupid and just goes along with everything that you're told and you're oblivious, then, oh, you get along.
You can be part of the Rotary Club or whatever.
You know, you can.
You can run the homeowners association.
You can be on the city council, but you have to be sufficiently dumb and stupid and gullible.
And the result is that our nation became something that lost its way.
It dropped the whole idea of a meritocracy.
So instead of the smartest, most capable people being elected to positions in governments or corporations, et cetera, you ended up with the most retarded and, to some degree, more recently, the most woke idiots being put into these.
Positions.
And at the same time, then the population would celebrate idiocy like they did with Joe Biden and Kamala, and then now more recently Trump, because Trump's an idiot, but he still has people that worship him because he tells them what they want to hear.
So we've lost the ability to discern the difference between idiocy and competence in America and actually all of Western civilization.
And as this happens, the civilization.
Cannot thrive and it cannot compete with the other more long lasting civilizations that have thousands of years of history behind them, such as China and Persia and Russia, also, and others, India in particular.
I'm not saying that everybody in India is a genius because clearly there are a lot of low IQ people in India as well.
But India has enough smart people and some very capable people to make the country work.
You know, you don't need every person to be a genius.
You just need the geniuses to be in enough positions of influence to help solve big problems.
And, you know, India is struggling with that.
They still haven't figured out traffic, but they're making progress.
Whereas America is declining and collapsing, and the currency will collapse, the culture will collapse, et cetera.
You know, the military, all of it is clearly collapsing.
So we are watching the downfall of not just America, not just Trump.
But the downfall of Western civilization, it will not be resurrected from this.
You will not have a future with Western Europe looking the way it does today.
Won't happen.
You will not have a future with the United States of America structured the way it is today.
The collapse is coming rapidly.
Trump is merely the accelerant, like throwing gasoline on a house and then lighting it on fire.
You know, Trump is the arsonist that's setting fire to Western civilization and burning it down more quickly than it otherwise would burn down.
So that's, that's Trump's role as an arsonist or an accelerant or, you know, a terrorist, whatever you want to call him.
He's playing that part perfectly and showing the world why America is incompetent and why Western civilization has utterly failed and is irreconcilable with human civilization, really.
I mean, that's just where we are.
So it doesn't mean that the concept of America is dead.
The spirit of America will live on and will be recreated in some new ways.
But the current existence of the United States of America as we know it and of Western civilization.
That's on a very limited time scale now.
And frankly, it won't last very long.
So, of course, decentralize in order to protect yourself from all of this and get prepared in whatever way you can.
Stock Up For Nuclear Disasters00:03:51
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Get yourself prepared, grow your own food.
You know the drill, get some gold and silver.
Be ready for the collapse of Western civilization.
Be ready to live in a more self-reliant and self-sustaining manner because that's what it's going to take to get through all of this.
You can also catch more of my podcasts and videos at brightvideos.com.
And then you can check out naturalnews.com for my written articles.
Thank you for listening.
Take care.
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