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.
>>You’re the one making the 18th century claims. I’m merely describing things as they are and have been here all my life.<<
You have never visited the Big City? Most people live in one or near one.
>>(etc. etc. etc.)... Does the DC crowd dislike preppers as much as it dislikes creationists? Sounds like it.<<
Why do you think I am in DC? It is a neat place and all, but I only get by there a few times a year. I hit all the tourist places like the Smithsonian and try to find oddities like the Spy Museum.
You might want to look at my profile to guess my home...
And I have no idea where the creation thing or “preppers” thing is coming from. Prepare all you want. But don’t shut down those of us who think it is a waste of time and treasure to do so in the manner suggested by the OP. As disaster preparedness, sure. As a long term solution for complete collapse, not so much.