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(WND)—As novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand once noted, philosophers determine history. They establish the ideologies that form the basis for cultural development and outline values that are to be considered popular in society. Philosophers shape the cultural worldview and consequently, the accepted narrative in society. The choice of ideology and the establishment of what is to be the “politically correct” paradigm is therefore of the utmost importance. The hypothesis, assumptions and argumentation must be based on realistic models and the correct values. If they are not, the worldview will create an ongoing misbalance in society, resulting in cultural decline.
A destructive ideology will spread its venom like the snake that lured Adam and Eve into their own self-destruction. This is precisely what has happened with the advent of atheist Marxism.
In the aftermath of the highly destructive French Revolution (1789 onward), which saw law and order completely abolished in France, the middle-class rebel, Karl Marx and his wealthy friend, Friedrich Engels, wrote “The Communist Manifesto” (1848). They outlined communism and socialism as the solution to problems in society by radically “melting the solid into air,” changing the entire value system in the West. While advocating bloody revolution and support for the working class and the poor, it may be argued that the masses were enticed and consequently cynically used to carry through dramatic changes that suited the Marxist leaders and gave them the elite power they sought after.
This ironically happened at the very height of Western civilization and its immense worldwide success, in which capitalism had brought millions out of poverty in a liberating economic process of hard work, personal accountability and individual freedoms. The Marxist aim was to tear down the capitalist economic method, traditional religious values and the family structure, loyalty-based duties and rights in the “old regime,” as Alexis de Tocqueville so eloquently describes it in “Democracy in America.”
The movement has been immensely successful in destroying the values that built the West and social fabric of Western societies. For example, consider the post-World War II philosophers in the social sciences in Germany. Watching how the Bolshevik Revolution swiftly implemented communism in Russia in 1917, much faster than they were able to do in the West, they looked for solutions. The philosophers were left with two choices: either support the communism of Moscow or the more moderate socialism of the Weimar Republic in Germany. These variations of Marxism all came from the same pool of thought, yet they disagreed on the methods that should be used to change society. A third option gradually emerged as a viable alternative. German intellectuals rebranded Marxist theory as neo-Marxism, and repackaged it. This led to the establishment of the Frankfurt School, Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt, Germany, which achieved significant influence in reshaping social structures in the West. The development of Western neo-Marxism is described in “The Dialectical Imagination.”
Philosophers such as Theodore W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Friedrich Pollock and Max Horkheimer launched the concept of Critical Theory, stating that science should not only objectively describe, but politically work to actively change social structures. Science thereby became politicized, with a goal of indoctrinating young students to become good Marxists – then hiring the best ones at the universities. Later neo-Marxists such as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida followed in their footsteps.
Critical Theory analyzed language as a tool of suppression as applied in propaganda, as well as institutionalized language used by an oppressive bureaucracy. In left-wing socialist NAZI Germany (NAZI is the abbreviation for The National Socialist Labour Party), it was precisely the excellent organization of the bureaucratic democratic system and its think-in-groups mentality that had made state-controlled Nazism function so well. The aim became to suppress conservatives and others who disagreed with them, and through a social revolution (which happened in the 1960s) demolish historic values in the West.
A prime example is Herbert Marcuse, who is considered the father of the Marxist 1960s student rebellion, which introduced free sex, free drugs, free abortion, borderlessness and a culture of hedonism into the West. He openly endorsed the repression of conservatives and others who did not support the Marxist views, calling for “repressive tolerance” as a tactic to stop free speech. Marcuse defines his progressive despotism this way in “A Critique of Pure Tolerance”: “The objective of tolerance would entail the adoption of an intolerant stance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions that are outlawed or suppressed.” The authoritarian despotism in Marxism has since put on display its lack of respect for different opinions and the democratic process, as it threatens to end Western greatness once and for all.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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