You prepare for worldwide collapse and everything going back to 18th century minus and I am the one in la-la land?
OK, well enjoy your seeds and gold, I guess. I'll perform my own risk management. Oh, and prepare my biker zombie army (cookies and all).
You’re the one making the 18th century claims. I’m merely describing things as they are and have been here all my life.
Me, I see looming institutional instability that can threaten local and regional control. This will lead to breakdown of law and order in pockets, primarily urban but not entirely, with flare ups and periods of order and calm, fluctuating from place to place over time. Some areas will be much more prone to maintaining order than others.
Along with this will be shortage, scarcity, distribution snafus and wild swings in price for basic necessities. I honestly don’t see it lasting all that long before it’s brought to heel by hook or by crook, not even a year. I don’t like pondering the nature of the governance that would arise in the wake of such a thing. It will be authoritarian, I suspect.
That’s how I see it, and how many others see it. We’ve come very close to economic collapse several times since 2008, and all the trillions of quantitative easing have merely papered over the rough patches. QE is going to come to an end, perhaps as soon as this month. We’re already three years into an unadmitted depression. Take away the flood of stimulus, and what is there?
Rome didn’t fall in a year, and the so-called Dark Ages didn’t sweep in suddenly. Nothing lasts forever, and we appear to be faced with tenuous times, to anyone paying attention. Preparing is wiser than gibbering and cavorting about, making up very improbable cartoon biker fantasies while mocking those who have a little future orientation, despite that future appearing rather bleak at the moment. There’s always hope, though. That appears to be the difference, here. You see pointlessness, in more ways than just this particular matter. I don’t.
You do what you want. I’ll do what I want. Funny how that works. I fail to see why it’s such an object of derision for you, or why you feign offense when your taunting gets thrown back at you. It’s almost as if you have an audience, somewhere. That seems familiar somehow. Does the DC crowd dislike preppers as much as it dislikes creationists? Sounds like it.