Why I See Things Differently (and Maybe You Do Too)
Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a different reality from the people around me.
I don’t say that to sound clever, or edgy, or rebellious. I say it because I’ve been watching something build for years, and now that it’s here, it feels like almost no one wants to acknowledge it.
People keep pointing to obvious scapegoats — Putin, Trump, COVID, Brexit, Rachel Reeves, Starmer — as if the entire world’s unraveling can be explained by a handful of names. But I think the truth is bigger. More uncomfortable. And more important.
When I look back, I don’t see 2008 as the beginning of this crisis. I see it as a major signpost in a much longer story. The foundations were crumbling long before then.
We were already stacking up debt at every level — household, corporate, government. The financial system had quietly become a house of cards, built on leverage and false confidence. Books like The Creature from Jekyll Island warned about how the central banking system was never meant to be stable — it was designed to serve the interests of a few, while slowly undermining the value of money for everyone else.
2008 wasn’t a shock. It was the system finally buckling under its own weight.
But instead of fixing anything, we papered over the cracks. We printed trillions. We cut interest rates to zero. We bailed out the banks. We kicked the can further down the road.
And now, the bill is coming due again.
Since then, we’ve had one crisis after another, each time with more intervention, more control, more confusion:
• The UK Conservative Party has limped from one leadership collapse to the next — Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak — while pretending this is just a political problem, not a systemic one.
• People blame individuals, but the real issue is structural — we are trying to run a modern economy on a financial system that is 50 years overdue for reform.
Now in 2025, the signs are everywhere:
• Bitcoin is pushing $84,000, because people are fleeing fiat
• Gold is hitting record highs
• The dollar is weakening against the euro, the yuan, and the Swiss franc
• Banks and pension funds are being quietly bailed out again, just under a different name
• Governments are tightening control, from tax grabs to digital IDs to central bank digital currencies
• The media still tells you it’s all unconnected — random, temporary, nothing to see
But I don’t believe that. I think we’re in the final stages of a long, slow cycle — a collapse of trust in a broken system.
And I’m not the only one.
Brilliant thinkers like Lyn Alden, Jeff Booth, and Larry Lepard have mapped this out in depth. Historians like Ray Dalio wrote about it in The Changing World Order. Sociologists and generational theorists warned about it in The Fourth Turning. Austrian economists explained it long before anyone else.
I’ve tried to share these ideas over the years. I’ve tried to help friends and family prepare — emotionally, practically, financially. But most still think I’m overreacting. Or worse, losing the plot.
Sometimes it gets to me. I start to question myself. Maybe I am seeing things that aren’t there?
But then the data comes in. The signals keep flashing. And I remember — I’m not imagining this. I’m just seeing what the system can no longer hide.
If you’ve felt this too — like you’re watching something massive unfold while everyone else carries on like it’s business as usual — then please know you’re not alone.
And if this all sounds crazy to you, I understand. All I ask is, don’t dismiss it outright. Keep watching. Keep questioning. Because what’s coming next isn’t going to look like anything we’ve seen before.
It’s not just another downturn.
It’s not just bad leadership.
It’s a transition. And the old world is starting to fail.
