{"id":1449984,"date":"2024-01-10T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1449984"},"modified":"2024-01-10T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T02:20:00","slug":"this-year-in-the-new-normal-2024-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/this-year-in-the-new-normal-2024-edition\/1449984\/","title":{"rendered":"‘This Year In The New Normal’ – 2024 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘This Year In The New Normal’ – 2024 Edition<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via Off-Guardian.org,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

If our readers are anything like us then you spent the majority of the weekend taking down Christmas decorations and carefully organizing them, despite the knowledge that they\u2019ll somehow become messy again by next December.<\/em><\/p>\n

That means the new year has officially started, which makes it time for our third-annual special edition of This Week in the New Normal. The one time a year where This Week looks forward instead of back and we try and predict what\u2019s coming.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Welcome to This\u00a0Year\u00a0in the New Normal, and here are our picks for the potential major stories of 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n

1. US PRESIDENTIAL \u201cELECTION\u201d AND THE DECLINE OF THE US EMPIRE<\/h2>\n

An easy one to start off: It\u2019s election year in the US. That means non-stop coverage of which candidates said\u00a0this<\/em>\u00a0about\u00a0that<\/em>, endless reporting of (probably entirely invented) polling figures and a few hours of excitement in November when they tell you what color tie the globalist puppet will be wearing for the next four years.<\/p>\n

In case the sarcasm was not clear enough:<\/p>\n

Democracy is not at stake, democracy is dead, buried, and the 2020 \u201celection\u201d was the establishment pissing on its grave.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This coming election will be rigged. How obviously and in which direction is as yet unclear (I genuinely think they might go back to Trump), and it arguably matters less than it has ever done.<\/p>\n

To steal the tagline from Alien vs Predator: Whoever \u201cwins\u201d,\u00a0we\u00a0lose.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A more interesting & subtle narrative to observe will be the decline of the US as an imperial power, and how stage-managed it will be. After all, the decline and fall of the US could be used to sell the idea the \u201cright side\u201d has won.<\/p>\n

What part will the so-called \u201celection\u201d play in fall of the US? Will we see more January 6th-like incidents and unrest? Is there a chance the election is postponed altogether in response to some as-yet unknown \u201cemergency?
\nWere Trump and Biden selected in order to discredit the presidency and smooth the way for a change of system? If so, will this trend continue?<\/p>\n

Questions 2024 has yet to answer.<\/p>\n

Bold Prediction:<\/strong>\u00a0By the end of the year, we will see mainstream articles both mourning and celebrating the end of US hegemony, and others welcoming the \u201cpost Imperial age\u201d and\/or \u201cmultipolar\u201d or \u201cmultilateral\u201d world.<\/p>\n

2. AI: RISE OF THE MACHINES<\/h2>\n

2023 was the birthyear of AI in the public consciousness. Everyone was talking about AI art, ChatGPT and so on. Fear of AI allegedly spawned both the Screen Actors and Writer\u2019s Guild strikes that halted Hollywood production in the late summer\/early autumn.<\/p>\n

The media is full of warnings about it, claiming that AI will make it impossible to know who\u2019s human and who is not.<\/p>\n

This is partly true, but it has been so for years. It is no longer safe, or perhaps rational, to believe what you see.<\/p>\n

\u2026but we suggest that\u2019s not why the warnings are there.<\/p>\n

In 2024 we expect this story to gather pace, and wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see one or two staged \u201ccrises\u201d in which AI is reportedly to blame.<\/strong> Maybe a \u201chack\u201d or a \u201cleak\u201d or a major website like PayPal or VISA crashing briefly due to some AI \u201cattack\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the end it will all be about surveillance and digital IDs.<\/p>\n

Bold Prediction:<\/strong>\u00a0By this time next year most social media and online businesses will require some form of digital \u201cproof of humanity\u201d before you can use their services, perhaps relying on a new form of digital identity document.<\/p>\n

3. LAB GROWN MEAT ON SUPERMARKET SHELVES<\/h2>\n

The last we heard of cultivated or \u201clab-grown\u201d meat, it was\u00a0being banned in Italy<\/a>. Good news for everyone, especially Italians.<\/p>\n

Then, just before the new year, fake meat was back on the media menu.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On December 19th\u00a0Forbes reported<\/a>\u00a0a US-based \u201ccultivated meat company\u201d had achieved \u201cprice parity\u201d.<\/p>\n

On December 27th PBS asked\u00a0\u201cHow is Lab Grown Meat Made and Will People Accept it?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

On December 29th a Scotsman column asked\u00a0\u201cWill King Charles give royal seal of approval to \u2018lab-grown\u2019 meat that could help save the planet?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The same day Longevity Tech asked\u00a0\u201cIs Lab-grown meat healthier than real meat?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

(sidebar \u2013 One minor prediction is that they will stop using the word \u201creal\u201d to differentiate meat from cultivated cell cubes. Expect words like \u201ctraditional\u201d, \u201cold-fashioned\u201d or \u201cnon-renewable meat\u201d to take over.)<\/p>\n

This is no mistake of timing. The narrative is cynically being aligned with the new year to catch people in their annual \u201cself improvement\u201d phase. After all, it\u2019s well known the global population of gym-going teetotal vegans quadruples on January 1st and goes back to normal by February.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026so this one isn\u2019t so much a prediction as an observation: This trend will continue, at least until the spring.<\/p>\n

My original \u201cbold prediction\u201d was going to be that 2024 would see lab grown meat labelled \u201cvegan\u201d\u2026but that\u00a0already happened<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a02023<\/a>. So\u2026<\/p>\n

Bold Prediction:<\/strong>\u00a0By the end of the year at least a handful of countries will have fully approved lab grown meat, and one major fast food chain will be advertising their use of it.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n

All told, it looks like OffG is in for a busy year, and we didn\u2019t even cover\u00a0the looming war in Taiwan<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0the spike in \u201clableaks\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which might cause the next \u201cpandemic\u201d.<\/p>\n

Good times ahead. Happy New Year everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 01\/10\/2024 – 16:20<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/year-new-normal-2024-edition<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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