[Screaming_Gerbil]

That post from me means that era in which fantasies of folly and infatuation with crappy ‘end-times’ novella thinking are a danger. Why? Because dangerous times are here — now.

This is an ‘inside’ battle. You will not be able to retreat to some compound, some hidey hole, some rural outpost and survive. We must fight close up and personal. Inside.

Our society will not devolve into the chaos imagined. Look to the lesson of Katrina. New Orleans was only one part, and the stories of chaos there during the event were wildly overblown. What happened in Mississippi, in Alabama, in Texas? Those are the examples of social order most Americans will uphold even if our currency collapses.

There are historical precedents.

Thank you for the explanation.

I guess by "Inside" you are referring to "inside ourselves" and "inside the walls"?

First to adjust our way of thinking to adapt to reality, and to plan on doing whatever we can where we are and not running away and hiding in isolation?

[bvw]

I guess by "Inside" you are referring to "inside ourselves" and "inside the walls"?

First to adjust our way of thinking to adapt to reality, and to plan on doing whatever we can where we are and not running away and hiding in isolation? Yes! Yes to both. The battle is so close, closer than the division within some families during the War between the States. Nearly all families are split, nearly all workplaces, nearly all associations.

It is first a battle of PERSONAL resolve.

It is second a great war "within the walls".