Posting Through Societal Decay and the Collapse

We live in a truly sick and ailing society, where people’s brains have been rotted out into soulless husks viewing everything through the lens of online content, crypto scams, and gambling. The murder yesterday of Renee Good in Minneapolis underscored this seedy underbelly of societal decay into pure moral degradation where our government smeared an innocent woman to justify her death. For the influencers aligned with the administration, human life is measured in how many views and shares they can get from posting about it all while enriching themselves and a handful of the wealthiest men in the world in the process.

The endless debate of whether Renee was murdered or the officer was justified in shooting her will fuel endless cycles of debate, rage, grief, and most importantly engagement metrics. The protests afterwards will enable political influencers on the right to ensure their followers stay engaged while at the same time ensuring ideological consistency and maximum spread of propaganda that aligns with the state’s prerogative.

If you’re not an influencer and want to get involved, you can purchase the new cryptocurrency “Justice for Renee Good” shitcoin to be parted with your money.[1] Feeling lucky? You can bet on whether Trump will send in the national guard as a result of the unrest.[2] Though I’m sure there will inevitably be prediction markets on whether the ICE officer responsible will be charged and/or convicted. No tragedy, even genocide, can’t be turned into an opportunity for the bottomless degeneracy of gambling in our current age.[3]

None of this changes our daily material reality even when it happens again, and again, and again. We witness a tragedy, become enraged at the injustice, share that expression on social media with others all the while stoking the social media fire. No systemic change happens. It’s solely the only acceptable outlet that the oligarchs have allowed for expression. Algorithmically moderated rage at the system that will never truly threaten it, rather it just keeps us passively posting through tragedy after tragedy. This is the system that has us in its grips unable to find a way out of this gordian knot of societal decay.

The government’s propaganda machine didn't even wait for the body to get cold before they started the character assassination. They made baldfaced lies and used grainy distorted footage to paint Renee as a "threat" or a "non-compliant actor." This provides the necessary cover for the influencer propagandist vultures to descend and start the "discourse." These people don't care about the truth of what happened in Minneapolis. They care about the ad revenue generated by the million-way argument they’ve sparked. They are the secondary executioners, killing her memory to boost their year-end analytics and benefit their political patrons.

The financialization of this murder is the final proof of our cultural bankruptcy. We’ve built a world where a woman’s death is a market signal. The "Justice for Renee Good" coin is the logical conclusion of a society that views every human interaction as a transaction. People buy the coin hoping for a "pump" when the protests and crackdowns hit the news cycle. They are literally rooting for more chaos so their digital wallet grows. It’s a ghoulish feedback loop where collective human suffering is the underlying asset.

The gambling platforms take it a step further. We now have an entire class of people who view the legal system as a sports book. They don't want a fair trial or an honest investigation; they want the outcome they put five grand on. This turns the entire concept of justice into a parlay. It detaches us from the human cost and turns us into spectators at a blood sport. If you win your bet on whether the officer gets indicted, you feel a sense of "victory" that has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with your bank account.

This is the pressure valve that keeps the status quo intact. The oligarchs who own the platforms and the politicians who run the state are in a symbiotic relationship. One provides the violence, the other provides the theater. We are allowed to scream, post, and gamble as much as we want because none of those actions result in a single change to the power structure. The ICE agents will still have their qualified immunity. The surveillance state will still grow. The oligarchs will still get wealthier off the data and engagement generated by our screams.

We are trapped in a cycle of manufactured outrage that leads nowhere. We’ve become habituated to consuming tragedy as content. We see the video of Renee’s final moments and the first instinct is to think about how to post it, how to frame it, or how to bet on it. The empathy has been stripped away, replaced by the cold logic of the algorithm. We are the husks, and the rot is total.

The reality is that Renee Good is gone, and the system that killed her is already looking for its next "event" to monetize. We are staring at our screens, clicking through the wreckage of a human life, wondering why nothing ever gets better. It doesn't get better because we are participating in the very machine that sustains the decay. We’re just another data point in the profit margins of the men who run the world, posting our way through the collapse while they count the money we’ve gambled away on our own destruction.

[1] https://phantom.com/tokens/solana/GiKPzsV167mraGwLJUFuq1aMiNLAsQJTYG3PUJa3pump

[2] https://kalshi.com/markets/kxnguardcity/which-cities-will-trump-deploy-the-national-guard-in/kxnguardcity-26

[3] https://polymarket.com/event/israel-strikes-iran-by-january-31-2026?tid=1767889436219