Predictions – What Won’t Happen in 2023

“In that time, I have something to say. How long before the Halkan prediction of galactic revolt is realized?” – Star Trek, TOS

I just read that it’s the law that if it’s raining in Sweden you have to have your headlights on.  How am I going to know if it’s raining in Sweden?

This is the first post of the year.  That feels like so much responsibility.  It feels like I have the weight of the fate of 2023 on my shoulders.  Of course, 2020, 2021, and 2022 have been Godzilla-level disasters, except that whoever does the lip-syncing didn’t get Joe Biden quite right.

But just before I started writing, I had an epiphany.  Many writers write about things that will happen, but here’s a list of things that I think won’t happen.  Of course, I can’t guarantee any of this, but I’m feeling pretty good about this list.  Remember, of course, I thought Zeppelins were a good idea.  Oh, sure, you’re expecting me to make a Led Zeppelin pun, but I’m just going to Ramble On instead.

Here’s the first thing:

Western Civilization isn’t done.  At all.  The construct and values of Western Civilization are under attack, but the roots turn very, very deep.  How deep?  They run deep before Christianity (I am a Christian), and deep as Greece and Troy and the Yamnaya people before them.  This is not the last time the song of Achilles will be sung, nor is it the last time that Caesar will be praised.

It’s not even close.  The medieval cathedrals may cease to exist, but the spirit that created them is not done.  The blood that created them still pulses in the veins of many on Earth.

No, Western Civilization isn’t done.  And it won’t be done for a very, very long time.

I downloaded a copy of the Iliad, but had to delete it.  It was full of Trojans.

This is, perhaps, the most important message that I can ever send.  The blood of my father and his father, and so on, goes back into time.  I do know this:  the reason there is a phrase, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” exists is because, a son is like his father.  There are many sons who are out there, who are not happy with the situation.  The idea of the Left is that they’ll be pushed over.

They won’t.  Push other cultures too far?  Cities burn.  Push Western Civilization too far?

Continents burn.  The fight necessary to extinguish Western Civilization will make World War II look like a garden party.

Here’s the second thing:

We haven’t yet hit peak Elon Musk amusement.  He’s the first person to “lose” $200 billion in a year without missing a beat, and he’s simply not done stirring the pot.

Here’s the third thing:

There is only so long that the Federal Reserve® can print cash and pretend it’s money.  It has been nearly fifty years, which is a really, really long time in dog years that Nixon quit pretending that the dollar was backed by gold.  The dollar immediately shrank in value, but remains relatively strong when compared to most currencies around the world even though I’d prefer to have a dollar’s worth of gold from 1973 than a dollar printed in 1973.

The strength of the dollar won’t end in 2023.  But it’s closer to free fall every year.  Right now, the confetti that the Federal Reserve™ presents as money is still good.  But when the people in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe and Senegal and Laos won’t take it?  The dollar will be toast.

My go-to on Asian currency is a local Spanish language show.  I guess it takes Juan to know Yuan.

And yet, the world hasn’t stopped taking the dollar that we print from paper.  Why?  The United States has a wicked large navy and about a zillion nuclear bombs.  I’ll note:  Iraq decided to take Euros for oil.

Oops.  Guess we need to replace Saddam.

Libya decides to take gold for oil.

Oops.  Guess we need to replace Ghaddafi.

Since Russia will take gold for oil, and China will swap their money for oil…?

The good news?

The dollar won’t end in 2023.

The bad news?

In 2023.  No promises after that.  And I might be wrong, so keep some silver, gold and lead around.

Here’s the fourth thing:

The Beatles won’t reunite.  Unless Paul starts eating bacon and Ringo takes up alligator wrestling.

Who is the drummer for the Australian Beatles cover band?  ɹɐʇs oƃuᴉp

Here’s the fifth thing:

Biden won’t get any smarter.  And neither will Hunter, though I’m sure tons of the cash shipped to the Ukraine will get recycled back into Hunter’s drug habit.  Good news!  It won’t be long until he loses another laptop.

Here’s the sixth thing: 

Movies won’t get any better in 2023.  The best movie in 2022 was approximately the same movie as the best-grossing movie of 1986.  Yup.  Top Gun:  Maverick was a good movie.  Nearly exactly the same level of good as Top Gun.  Avatar:  The Way Of Ego was from the same person who brought you Aliens. Which was the fifth best-grossing movie in 1986.  It isn’t getting any better in 2023.

What do they call James Cameron when he’s not working?  James Cameroff.

I am somewhat amused.  The very, very best movies of 2022 were a faithful remake and a pale imitation of two of the best movies of 1986.

Wow.

1986 was, observably, and quantifiably better than 2022 in every way possible.  If you’re thinking that in 2023 Disney® will stop putting out movies that show why kid-touching is a good thing or feature a Disney® princess played by some 372-pound guy named Todd?  Not happening.

Yeah.  Mass media is really dead.  And in 2023 it will be a dead cat bounce.  Maybe.  It depends only on how many Tom Cruise movies are coming out.  Who could have predicted that Scientologists would be more sane than Leftists?

Sure, there will be some movies that will be okay.  If one movie in 2023 is better than any movie I’ve ever seen?  I’ll cover my nipples in opossum grease and sandpaper my eyebrows.

The Opossum Sanitation Company had a unique concept on recycling.

Here’s the seventh thing:

We’re not done.  This isn’t over.

I’ve been using this as an irregular tagline for years.  And I mean it.

We’re not done.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

41 thoughts on “Predictions – What Won’t Happen in 2023”

  3. I don’t know how I found it, but my origins on this path were started by reading “the Woodpile.” Ol’ Remus didn’t always share the best of news for the good guys, but his delivery is what kept me coming back. I think that’s why I enjoy your page so much. You always manage to leave me with a feeling of optimism! Happy new year and keep up the great work

  4. My prediction for 2023: That Canadians will start to realize that entrusting your retirement income and your medical care to the same entity creates an unfortunate conflict of interest. The response: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Originally, it was only offered to those in a painful, near-death state. Now? Your next “blue Monday” might be your last.

  5. If you’re thinking that in 2023 Disney® will stop putting out movies that show why kid-touching a good thing or feature a Disney® princess played by some 372-pound guy named Todd?

    I downloaded a copy of the Iliad, but had do delete it. It was full of Trojans.

    I think those typing fingers were tired yesterday.

  6. JOHN WICK 4

    Dingo Starr get out of town. You da man John

    And your right we’re not done and God is not done with us, whether that will be good or bad is a toss up

    1. Exactly! And as we learn to realize that as long as we are of use, we are here, and to be content with same?

      Life is good.

  7. “…lose 200 billion.”

    Reminds me of Sen. Everette Dirksen’s sarcastic quote from the late 1950s, “A billion here, a billion there, and you’re finally talking about real money.”

    1. Yeah, but he seems to be in a good mood. Heck, most people don’t work all year and don’t make that much money.

  9. One thing we will not see in 2023:

    Ghislaine Maxwell’s release of “the client list”……..

    Why? Because she wants to live past 2023 !!

  11. Western civilization is not done yet because the people that built Western civilization are not done yet. We are still here. It is not coincidental that I have a post in a similar mindset in the hopper using a meme I made from….Top Gun: Maverick.

  12. Wikipedia has a pretty good overview of Western Civ worth skimming. Quite a list of accomplishments.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture

    The article takes the viewpoint that Western Civ is one of nine recognized civilizations throughout the world, per Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations”. Off the top of my head, I can’t even name the others, much less their top accomplishments.

    Can’t wait to see what existential nemesis Western Civ is gonna be taking on in a 2023 death match. Probably TikTok.

    1. That’s it – if you think about the things Western Civilization has done, really it is amazing. It is something worth keeping around.

  13. In 36 years, when Cruise makes the next Top Gun he will be screaming at those young whippersnappers for flying too fast. Of course when he gets passed on the right, he will have had his turn signal on for 15 minutes.

  14. “The medieval cathedrals may cease to exist, but the spirit that created them is not done. The blood that created them still pulses in the veins of many on Earth.”

    They’re well aware of this, hence it is that *blood* itself which they are attacking through “replacement”.

    But, yeah, we’re not done. I’m too old to start over in Sibera, I’ll never be done. My death will come as a great surprise to me, if I live long enough to notice I’m dead. I won’t be done.

  15. The replacement USPF will be the beginning of sporky time.
    The black and brownshirts are still out there and still in reserve for the purge.
    That memory holed movie wasn’t just a wet dream wish list for the CPUSA.
    They hate America and will not rest until it burns to the ground in a Wagnerian orgy of blood, fire, and death.
    Read about some captured institution WOKE dictionary source banning the word American.

  16. We’re definitely not done…But the partnership of 50 States that is largely unrepresented in DC is on life support, and will be gone unless massive changes are made by our “representatives.”

    1. That is something that folks have a difficulty understanding – what comes after will be different, though it also may be more glorious than what came before.

  17. The Saxon better wake up and get some wrath cracking.
    The time of taking advantage of tolerance and applying altruistic traits to races who laugh at such concepts is over.
    The terminal decline of the FUSA from within is obvious to all and I got a kick out of a Putin speech regarding Wunderwaffen where he said…we will weed out the Patriots too.

  18. 2022 sucked. 2023 will suck even more. Why? Be auss the same criminals who were in power in 2022 are STILL in power. And they HATE America and Americans. So they will do everything they can think of to ramp up the pain even more. It’s just that simple.

    1. It will be the same people this month. And next. And in 2023. Their pushing will result in the push back.

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