The 5 Arcs & 7 Cracks of Systemic Collapse

The 5 Arcs & 7 Cracks of Systemic Collapse

By Matthew Piepenburg – September, 2025

For centuries, philosophers have compared the great questions (and mysteries) of life to a circle.

That is: To fully understand the circle, you must also recognize its arcs, and to fully understand the arcs, you must see the circle. The fancy lads call this paradoxical “tying together of all things” hermeneutics. But we don’t need fancy phrases to call out a global financial system losing all credibility, options and happy endings.

When it comes to the “circle” of an increasingly apparent economic collapse, the systemic, mathematical and historical “arcs” of this dying economic / financial / social sphere are becoming easier for all of us to both feel and see.

A Circle of Systemic Implosion

But to make this real (rather than philosophical), let’s put these evidentiary “arcs” in their proper place so that we can all objectively recognize the circle of systemic implosion knocking on our doors.

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