>>I too find myself falling into that trap and to be honest,<<
I’m having that problem to some degree and I use this analogy to clarify how I “feel”: In the movie “The Twelve Monkeys”, I am the Bruce Willis character in the “pre-collapse” world. I see everything around me as “about to end”. Anything I can pull from it to use to build up my farm in Kentucky, I will. It will just go unused here in Seattle as everything is destroyed by people as this thing goes down.
If you could go back in time and steal the money out of a person’s wallet just before the plane they are in crashes and burns, are you really stealing? Come to think of it, there was a movie and book about that.
You and me both. I used to obsess about savings, planning, budgets, etc. and now I think that in 5-10 years, the civil war will start and Mexicans/Blacks/Muslims will start shooting up the nursing homes of old Anglos and attacking innocents, tipping the nation into chaos and civil war.
Just my opinion.