We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
📝 Lomez on X:
"Zoomers are the first cohort to be fully immersed in the reality of generational downward mobility. While millenials will also earn less than their parents, they were formed under the expectations of America ascending to a kind of Post-History stasis where at worst their status and wealth was permanently locked in.
Zoomers have none of these illusions and rightfully reject the obsolete and facile narratives they’re expected to swallow and obey to make sense of their lives and ambitions. Those are dead narratives. They do not reflect reality at all. They do not reflect the deranged cultural and political circumstances they’re expected to navigate from a position of negative expected value for pretty much any career path outside of genius tech outlier.
Scolding them is a stupid and pointless exercise that will only drive them further into despair and resentment.
Yes. Don’t be resentful. Don’t give in to despair. Be resourceful and lay a claim on your own life. But it’s also going to require offering Zoomers much better and updated narratives and opportunities for how to accrue status and wealth and the basic conditions for living a dignified life for the average guy who is not an outlier tech genius.
There are short, medium, and long term fixes for this. Some straightforwardly political. Some more complex cultural questions. But the implicit promise of boomer America, even Gen X America, is no longer viable, and that broken promise has absolutely nothing to do with Zoomers themselves."
📎 Lomez
Ukrainian forces have begun training and testing exoskeletons for battlefield use. Soldiers from the 147th Separate Artillery Brigade are using them in the Pokrovsk sector for both logistics and frontline operations. The goal is to reduce physical strain, especially when loading heavy artillery shells into howitzers without automatic loaders. Artillery crews can handle up to 1200 kg of ammunition per day, and early tests show that exoskeletons help them work faster and with less fatigue Above all, by improving the conditions for those soldiers on the front lines who handle such heavy loads, plus the stress of work. Seeking to reduce overall fatigue in the troops
"In the worst-case scenario, the polycrisis aggravated by this disruption will make the coronavirus measures seem like a luxury holiday. Shortage economy, rationing, supply failures, collapse of logistical structures, unemployment, bankruptcies, chaos, hunger, social unrest, financial crash and “Mad Max” – everything is possible via the lever energy. An ideal scenario for a system that wants to impose digital money, 15-minute cities and social isolation on its citizens eID – because if there is no more money, the Internet is locked, the pump empty, the supermarket is closed for two weeks and the city center is a war zone, they will voluntarily accept every “offer of help”. The next “no” is therefore likely to be much more difficult than the last. The training camp is over – but now the emergency could come.
So this dystopian scenario has its good, too. Because in the coming years, each of us will be able to find out and prove what kind of person he really is." ...
Engineered Energy & Food Crisis? Interview on RCR Media with Paul Brennan [VIDEO]
Yesterday I joined Paul Brennan on RCR Media to discuss how the current energy crisis is rapidly turning into a food crisis, the scripted nature of these events, and most importantly, how we can respond with local resilience and human creativity instead of fear or dependence.
Originally aired April 3, 2026 here: https://rcr.media/episodes/christian-westbrook-independent-journalist-engineered-energy-food-crisis/
With thanks to Paul Brennan and the RCR crew.
Substack: https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/engineered-energy-and-food-crisis
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