Watching the Matrix Collapse from the Ice: Oilers, Porta-Potties, and the Biohealing Revolution

Watching the Matrix Collapse from the Ice: Oilers, Porta-Potties, and the Biohealing Revolution

April 25, 2026 · 56 min

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Jeff Berwick discusses the fragility of society and personal experiences during a chaotic escape from Canada.

We escaped Devon, Canada just in time. It wasn't just the cold, the kind that bites through your layers and reminds you that you are a biological meat-sack in a hostile environment. No… I literally almost got ran over by porta-potties rolling down the street. I wish I was joking. This isn't a metaphor for the economy. I mean actual, physical portable toilets, loose in the wind, tumbling down the asphalt like blue plastic boulders in an Indiana Jones movie. That is life in communist Kanada today. Infrastructure is crumbling, the social contract is dissolved, and the streets are littered with the symbols of a society that has lost its ability to manage basic human functions. We weren't just fleeing the rolling toilets, though. We were trying to fit in our last moments of semi-normalcy before the inevitable shutdown. My gut tells me we are in the final days. The system is so fragile now that it feels like it could all go dark in the next few months. No flights. No jets. Just a hard stop to the matrix as we know it. During our exodus, we stopped to say goodbye to my dad. We met him outside, which, in hindsight, was a bad idea given the climate, but he hadn't seen his grandson in a…

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