The theory of complete societal breakdown fails in a whole series of ways.
To start with, our national infrastructure is basically sound. America has been awash in food since before the Great Depression. We have an overabundance of housing. We organize well, we’re heavily armed and belligerent.
Add to this that except for natural disasters, they rarely happen all at once, which gives us time to adapt.
“A world of no banks, no public facilities, no food and rampaging gangs of desperate people.”
Banks are overrated, and people are far less dependent on them than you might think. There are lots of alternatives to banks.
No public facilities? Well, electricity could get haphazard, because of the eco-dumbasses. But that could be fixed in a few years, or even months, after we throw the eco-dumbasses off cliffs. Other than that, water is a big priority out West, and it’s unlikely that it will become less so.
And again, plenty of food. Right now we have to pay farmers to *not* grow food. Even if all they have to grow it with is water and seed, no fertilizer or pesticide, they will still grow enough.
Rampaging gangs (of Mexicans?) Sorry. We got guns.
“Banks are overrated, and people are far less dependent on them than you might think. There are lots of alternatives to banks.”
Almost every business, exists because if credit, no credit, no paychecks, no inventory, no cash flow, no nothing.
“Banks are overrated, and people are far less dependent on them than you might think. There are lots of alternatives to banks.”
Name one hundred successfull (and legal) businesses with over a one hundred employees each which doesn’t use credit to run their daily operations and then I will believe that credit isn’t inportant in today’s economy.
I really like the sound of that....its so true.
Those are some good points, but a lot of modern civilization depends on law and order and respect for property rights.
Actually from the way they act, the Leftist imply that they would LIKE IT if we returned to ‘simpler time’ without those evil SUV’s ( or SUR’s for that matter), Air conditioning, Indoor plumbing, etc.
The far-left national socialists would like to return to the days when people lived off the land, blah .. blah
(Not them, of course, they are the Elite – they deserve to live better than the rest of us great unwashed)
But let's be realistic, people in past lived that way because they didn't know any better – even in the event that most of civilization were to be wiped out, some people would remember how to build engines and generators and other vestiges of civilization.
The big crux of the matter would be whether there would be the law and order infrastructure for people to rebuild.
That will be the linchpin in what happens.